DES MOINES – Sioux City businessman Bob Vander Plaats topped former House Speaker Christopher Rants by more than a two-to-one margin and outdistanced two other potential GOP gubernatorial candidates by even larger margins in a poll conducted by TheIowaRepublican.com. Meanwhile, actor and martial arts legend Chuck Norris has announced his backing for a Vander Plaats […]
Associated Press reporter Mike Glover writes, “It’s been six months since voters handed Barack Obama the White House, and in the minds of a lot of Iowa activists that means only one thing: It’s time to start the campaign again. 2012 already?” To see the complete story as it was published in the Washington Post, […]
Stuart Varney writes in today’s Wall Street Journal that there’s a reason President Obama refuses to accept repayment of TARP money. For the full story, click here.
SIOUX CITY – Bob Vander Plaats released the following statement in response to Gov. Chet Culver’s reversal of his earlier pledge to defend one-man, one-woman marriage: “Chet Culver’s inaction and self-serving political double talk on one of the most fundamental issues in our state – the definition of marriage and the defense of our culture […]
In the New York Times story, “Financial Industry Paid Millions to Obama Aide” published in today, reporter Jeff Zeleny writes: WASHINGTON – Lawrence H. Summers, the top economic adviser to President Obama, earned more than $5 million last year from the hedge fund D. E. Shaw and collected $2.7 million in speaking fees from Wall […]
DES MOINES – Sioux City Republican Bob Vander Plaats issued the following statement on the Iowa Supreme Court’s ruling concerning same-sex marriages: “Like hundreds of thousands of Iowans, I respect the rule of law but I am certainly disappointed by the court’s ruling. The Defense of Marriage Act had strong bipartisan support when it was […]
DES MOINES – Gov. Chet Culver’s statement that vocal opposition to Democratic plans to raise taxes on half of all Iowans is “over the top” is the trademark of a politician who is out of step with the needs and concerns of voters, Sioux City Republican Bob Vander Plaats said today. “Chet Culver is out […]
Iowa’s senior senator, Charles Grassley, has been in the national spotlight recently with his blunt statements about the executives at troubled financial giant AIG. Today, Politico staff writer Anne Schroeder Mullins asks, “Is Grassley on a roll?” To read the full story, click here
DES MOINES – Bob Vander Plaats, a Sioux City Republican who was his party’s lieutenant governor nominee in 2006, said he would veto Democratic plans to burden more than 450,000 Iowans with news taxes by stripping away their right and ability to deduct their federal taxes on state returns. “Legislative Democrats budget and tax policies […]
SIOUX CITY – Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats issued the following statement today in response to legislative Democrats’ proposal to eliminate Iowans’ ability and right to deduct federal taxes from their state tax returns: “The Democrats’ plan to get rid of federal deductibility has nothing to do with reform and everything to do with […]
