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• 1. Matt  |  July 9th, 2006 at 9:02 pm

  Gave you a shout out over at Daily Kos

• 2. Doug Cutchins  |  July 10th, 2006 at 10:07 am

  Harriett wasn’t the only one to receive this phone call — I got an identical one, and know a Grinnell College faculty member who also did. Push polling in June?! Danny and the R’s must be worried.

  All three calls went to registered Dems in Grinnell’s 1st Ward — traditionally the most liberal of the 4 wards, and the one most likely to give Palmer the most support.

• 3. IA HD-75: Let’s ele&hellip  |  July 11th, 2006 at 2:16 pm

  […] Danny Carroll, the incumbent Republican representative of house district 75 here in Iowa, is taking the low road pretty quickly in his quest to maintain his seat from strong challenger Eric Palmer. Hannah, from Iowa Progress (the blog of the Grinnell College Democrats located in HD 75), notes a letter to the editor in the Register about a push poll that seems to becoming from Carroll’s campaign, or another conservative group affiliated with him. […]

• 4. Matt  |  July 12th, 2006 at 2:18 pm

  From the Des Moines CityView:

  Parties gear up to retain contested seats

  Republicans and Democrats are drawing up lists of Legislative seats they think they can win - and some they think they might lose. Republicans worry that Danny Carroll of Grinnell - the House’s Speaker Pro Tem - and Dan Rasmussen of Independence and David Lalk of Fayette County are vulnerable. Democrats will fight hard to save seats of incumbents Mark Davitt of Indianola and Bob Kressig of Cedar Falls. Both sides think they’ll end up in control of the chamber, which the Republicans now control 51 to 49. Democrats are more certain they’ll take control of the Senate, which now is evenly divided, and some Republicans candidly agree. One big battleground: the Republican seat Polk County’s Jeff Lamberti is giving up to run for Congress.

  In the meantime, the state’s Republicans met a couple of weeks ago and, among other things, wrote a new platform. Since we couldn’t find mention of it in The Des Moines Register, Civic Skinny rises again to public service by providing some highlights: The Iowa Republican platform would eliminate the U.S. Department of Education; speaks harshly of homosexuals; opposes any minimum wage; favors school prayer and the teaching of creationism; opposes the teaching of sex education; favors English as the official language of the state; opposes the Kyoto treaty; opposes “ethnic history” months in school systems; opposes no-fault divorce; wants marriage defined as exclusively between a man and a woman; opposes a protected class based on sexual orientation; favors drilling in the Arctic national wildlife preserve; opposes the bottle bill; opposes “all forms” of affirmative action; favors the death penalty; opposes amnesty for any illegal immigrants; supports a barrier along the entire length of the Mexico-U.S. border; opposes issuing driver’s licenses or providing medical, welfare, or educational support for illegal immigrants and their dependents; favors the right to carry a concealed weapon; supports the repeal of state and federal hate-crimes legislation; supports the reversal of Roe v. Wade; opposes embryonic stem-cell research; opposes euthanasia; opposes abortion; opposes a cigarette-tax increase; favors eliminating the income tax and the Internal Revenue Service and imposing, instead, a consumption tax; opposes the use of tax dollars to support the entertainment and the arts; and commends the “outstanding representation” of, among others, Steve King… among other things.

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