WEST DES MOINES – Brian Rickert today became the first candidate to file nomination papers in this year’s municipal elections as he seeks to succeed retiring incumbent Loretta Sieman in the Third Ward. “Today’s the first day for candidates to file and I’ve been looking forward to it because we’ve already received such tremendous support […]
SIOUX CITY – Sioux City businessman Bob Vander Plaats, the 2006 Republican nominee for lieutenant governor who is leading the field for the party’s 2010 gubernatorial nomination, will officially launch his campaign on Monday, Sept. 7 in his hometown of Sheldon in northwest Iowa. “Labor Day is the traditional start of the election season and […]
DES MOINES – Bob Vander Plaats, the front-runner for the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nomination, today dismissed an attack by fellow candidate Christopher Rants as “more of the same from a career politician.” Rants issued a statement falsely claiming Vander Plaats “unveiled a health care plan over the weekend” that would “double the size of the […]
Corporate America has had too much of fancy leadership disconnected from plain old management, writes Henry Mintzberg in the latest issue of Business Week. Mintzberg is the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University and a founding partner of www.CoachingOurselves.com. To read the entire column, click here.
The Concept Works will host an official from Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party on Aug. 20. The visit by Mr. Cheng-yi Lee, who is the party’s deputy director of its Section of Social Movement, comes on the heels of a recent visit by an official from the Kuo-min-tang Party. Mr. Lee was Chairman of the DPP’s […]
DES MOINES – Governor Chet Culver’s second dispute with the facts in less than a week proves he is “in over his head,” Sioux City businessman Bob Vander Plaats said today. “It’s the propensity of the governor to ignore the truth and bend the facts to the way he wants the facts to be,” Vander […]
The Concept Works today hosted a Taiwanese official visiting America to gain a greater knowledge of the U.S. electoral system. Fu-Ming Hsu, chairman of the Kuo-min-tang Party’s Kaohsiung Office, began his visit in Washington, D.C., and is scheduled to travel to Salt Lake City following a Des Moines stop hosted by the Iowa Council for […]
DES MOINES – The insistence of Governor Chet Culver and his staff that state revenues went up in July, rather than down as the nonpartisan Legislative Service Agency reported, reflects a “bunker mentality” that could paralyze any efforts to fix Iowa’s mounting budget problems, Sioux City businessman Bob Vander Plaats today. “Chet Culver is trying […]
OSCEOLA, Iowa — Eric Woolson of The Concept Works donned a pair of Rattlers Brand snakeproof chaps for a photo shoot with a live Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, proving once again that the protective gear is “the best on the market.” “Our goal was to capture video of a rattlesnake striking a pair of the Rattlers […]
A new Washington Post poll shows former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee leads Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich in a match-up of potential 2012 GOP presidential contenders. The Concept Works represented Huckabee in the lead-up to the 2008 Iowa caucuses and TCW owner Eric Woolson managed Huckabee’s winning campaign in the state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.
