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93 Lawmakers Voted to Protect Kids From AI Porn. Josh Turek Wasn’t One of Them
Some votes are hard. These weren’t. In March 2024, the Iowa House took up two bills cracking down on AI-generated sexual images of real people, including children. S.F. 2243 passed 93 to 0 on March 6. H.F. 2240 cleared its final House vote 93 to 0 on March 25. Republicans voted yes. Democrats voted yes. Basically everyone with a pulse and a voting button voted yes. Josh Turek didn’t vote at all....
Lindsay James Discovered Girls’ Sports Just in Time for Election Day
The Democrat now says Iowa needs “common-sense rules” to keep sports fair for girls. When lawmakers actually wrote those rules, James voted no. Lindsay James would like Second District voters to meet the election-year version of Lindsay James. In a new campaign ad,...
Booked Solid: Inside the Call Where Trone Garriott’s Team Couldn’t Find One Hour for Iowa Voters
KCCI reported last week that Congressman Zach Nunn and State Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott will not debate on the station this fall. What that story couldn't show you is how it happened. Iowa Field Report has obtained the full audio of the September 30 call between KCCI...
Lindsay James Can’t Stop Threatening to Raise Taxes
Some politicians have a signature issue. Lindsay James has a signature reflex: any time Iowans get to keep more of their own money, she reaches for the off switch. The Democrat running in IA-02 has a record on taxes, and it's remarkably consistent. Consistently...
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AG-gregious: We’re Still Finding Farm Votes Josh Turek Skipped
At this point, covering Josh Turek's attendance record is like cleaning out a machine shed. Every time you think you've hauled out the last of it, you find another pile in the corner. Quick refresher for the folks in the back. Between January and early May, Turek...
Bohannan’s Tax Record: No, No-Show, and No Again
Christina Bohannan wants voters in Iowa's First District to believe she's the candidate looking out for seniors, farmers, and working families. Her voting record would like a word. In 2022, Iowa passed the largest tax cut in state history. The law ended state income...
INVESTIGATION: The China Money Behind the Woman Attacking Zach Nunn Over China Money
rone Garriott wants voters to be alarmed that Nunn took a donation connected to Syngenta, the agricultural company Chinese state-owned ChemChina bought in 2017. Fair enough, that’s a real fact, worth scrutiny. But Trone Garriott left out the part where the man who personally engineered that $43 billion sale to Beijing, the lawyer who spent months making sure China’s government got its hands on Syngenta, is one of her own campaign’s donors.
The Turek Campaign’s Oppo File Is Empty, So They Filled It With Nonsense
wans deserve a Senate race fought over records, not recycled innuendo dressed up by a press corps that only reaches for the red pen in one direction. Ashley Hinson has a record. Josh Turek is going to need to find one – preferably before the next ad buy, and before some enterprising reporter finally asks him about his own attendance sheet.
But that seems unlikely.
Trone Garriott says no to your tax cut, yes to everyone else’s handout
“Sarah Trone Garriott treats Iowans like a piggy bank for her radical agenda. She voted against historic tax cuts for Iowans while backing taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal immigrants and gender mutilation surgeries. Sarah Trone Garriott doesn’t want Iowans to keep more of their money; she wants more of it to spend.” — NRCC Spokeswoman Emily Tuttle
Chuck Grassley: 25 Years Since 9/11
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, patriotism ran high as Americans stood shoulder to shoulder in sadness and solidarity. People from across the country pitched in to help, including Iowa’s Musco Lighting. Two mobile lighting trucks left Oskaloosa that very day, heading for the Pentagon. Workers from the lighting company were on another job in Rhode Island and were on site in Lower Manhattan within hours of the attack. Musco Lighting crews spent months at Ground Zero, delivering light during one of our nation’s darkest moments. At the request of the New York Fire Department, an American flag was raised on the boom of one of its trucks as a beacon of hope and patriotism.
Christina Bohannan Says She Backs the Blue. Her Voting Record Says She Defunded The Police
Christina Bohannan had a real, concrete opportunity to protect the health insurance of the officers who run toward danger so the rest of us don’t have to. She said no. That’s not a messaging problem for her campaign to manage — it’s a paper trail Iowa law enforcement can read for themselves.
Rob Sand Is Running Against Des Moines Insiders. His Whole Career Has Been One
Newsweek caught him back in 2008 as a former Deaniac, tracing his political awakening straight back to writing Howard Dean a check in 2004 — a caucus he skipped that year to model menswear in Milan, of all things — before caucusing for Obama and telling the magazine he was “more excited about Obama than I was about Dean.” An outsider doesn’t have a Dean-to-Obama origin story. A lifelong Democrat does.
Updated: Turek’s “No Corporate PAC Money” Line Stops at the Memo Field
f the principle were “corporate money doesn’t belong in my race,” the answer would be easy: don’t take the money, no matter which Democratic senator’s committee rewrites the check. Turek didn’t do that. He took the LPAC route — the version of the pledge that survives a debate stage and melts under an FEC download.
So here’s the honest reading of the slogan. “No corporate PAC money” rejects a corporate PAC stamp on the contribution. It does not reject corporate PAC money washing through Democratic leadership committees first. Voters who thought they were buying a grassroots purity test got a paperwork distinction.
