Entries by Eric Woolson

On One-Year Anniversary of Failed “Stimulus,” Miller-Meeks Says Loebsack and Pelosi Failed Southeast Iowa

February 17, 2010 in /by

OTTUMWA, Iowa – One year after the passage of a $787-billion economic stimulus package that was supposed to hold unemployment around 8 percent, Americans “are the ones stuck paying for the mistakes of Rep. David Loebsack and the rest of Nancy Pelosi’s big-government, anti-individual-freedom allies,” Republican congressional candidate Mariannette Miller-Meeks said tonight. “Unemployment is hovering […]

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

February 4, 2010 in /by

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

January 28, 2010 in /by

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

January 19, 2010 in /by

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

December 16, 2009 in /by

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

December 14, 2009 in /by

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 […]