Entries by Eric Woolson

Vander Plaats: Culver Should Promise to Veto any Assault on Iowa’s Right-to-Work Law

BELMOND – Gov. Chet Culver owes it to Iowa companies, their employees and local economic development groups to say definitively that he will veto any legislation that weakens the state’s right-to-work law, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats said today. After Culver signed an order on Wednesday requiring state agencies to consider expensive project labor […]

Miller-Meeks: Obama’s State of the Union Shows Importance of Trust, What Happens When it’s Lost

OTTUMWA – President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech “demonstrates more than ever how important it is for elected officials to keep their word and what happens when they don’t,” Republican congressional candidate Mariannette Miller-Meeks said this morning. “He didn’t intend to be that way, but the important lesson about the President’s speech last […]

Miller-Meeks: GOP Victory in Massachusetts Proves ‘ObamaCare’ Backer Loebsack is Vulnerable This Fall

OTTUMWA – Massachusetts voters’ selection of a Republican state senator to succeed the late Democratic icon Edward Kennedy in a special election signals a critical change in the national electorate’s mood that will be felt in this year’s House races in Iowa, GOP congressional candidate Mariannette Miller-Meeks said tonight. “No one should take anything away […]

Dec. 23 is Final Day in Chicago for Napoleon’s Tailor, Iconic National Clothier for Short Men

CHICAGO – Napoleon’s Tailor, a Milwaukee-based clothier with a national reputation for catering exclusively to men who are five-foot-eight and shorter, will mark its final day in Chicago on Dec. 23, its owner said today. Gary Anders, who will continue to operate his flagship store of the same name in Milwaukee, announced in mid-October that […]

Michael Farris, a Founder of Home School Legal Defense Association and Patrick Henry College, Announces Support for Vander Plaats

PURCELLVILLE, Virginia – Michael Farris, a national leader in home-school education and the founder of Patrick Henry College, today announced his support for Bob Vander Plaats in the 2010 Iowa gubernatorial contest. “Bob is a leader who really understands the core principles of liberty that were purchased at such a great price by our Founding […]

Miller-Meeks Launches 2010 Campaign Against Loebsack in Iowa’s Second Congressional District

MUSCATINE – Dr. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, the 2008 GOP nominee in the Second Congressional District, today formally launched her campaign for her party’s 2010 nomination by urging Iowans to make history by electing their first women to Congress and supporting economic, environmental health care, tax and budget policies that once again move the country forward. “Just […]