By Caffeinated Thoughts
Presser from the Roberts Campaign:
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rod Roberts filed a bill yesterday in the Iowa House of Representatives that calls for amending the Iowa Constitution to limit state government spending. The constitutional amendment would limit state spending to 99% of projected revenue. Over the past several months of his gubernatorial campaign, [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
I had the opportunity to sit down with Representative Chris Rants (R-Sioux City) over a diet coke at Legends in Pleasant Hill. Representative Rants first elected to represent Iowa House District 54 (Sioux City and Sergeant Bluff) in 1992 and still serves his district today in that capcity In 2003 was elected Speaker [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
Representative Chris Rants (R-Sioux City), one of the seven GOP gubernatorial candidates, emailed me about the post I wrote regarding yesterday’s meeting with former Governor Terry Branstad. He asked, “did Branstad say the spending reforms were his idea?” Which upon listening to the audio of the meeting again; he did take credit for [...]