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Posted at August 10, 2007 at 5:13 pm

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Just back from the press conference at IDP Headquarters with Gov. Chet Culver, Secretary of State Mike Mauro, and IDP Chair Scott Brennan. Culver made sure to emphasize that Iowa Democrats were still planning for January 14th precinct caucuses, but admitted the situation is and remains fluid, with a lot running on New Hampshire […]

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Posted at August 10, 2007 at 3:05 pm

Excerpt:

As John notes here, the IDP is having a press conference with Gov. Chet Culver, Sec. of State Mike Mauro, and IDP Chair Scott Brennan for a discussion about the Iowa Caucuses. The event starts in about 40 minutes and I’ll try to live-blog some of the news and will offer a full report […]

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Posted at May 14, 2007 at 1:29 pm

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The Iowa Dept. of Human Services is expected to gain an extra $115 million more come July 1st, thanks to the passage of the cigarette tax this past March in the legislature as well as the creation of a Health Care Trust Fund.
The cigarette tax legislation created the standing appropriation to the Dept. of Health […]

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Posted at May 14, 2007 at 1:04 pm

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Smokers in Iowa helped increase state revenues by over $40 million in April, according to a new report released today by the Legislative Services Agency.
During the month of April, the cigarette tax and tobacco taxes were two of the highest generators of revenue, with corporate income tax being 47.2 percent higher than in April of […]

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Posted at March 23, 2007 at 2:25 pm

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Over at Bleeding Heartland, I’ve posted three Iowa netroots polls to judge what people think of Iowa’s big-three Democratic leaders: Chet Culver, Pat Murphy, and Mike Gronstal. Please go vote and leave your thoughts. Hopefully by the end of the weekend or the beginning of next week we’ll have some interesting numbers to […]

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Posted at March 19, 2007 at 10:50 pm

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I know this is short notice, but I guess John Edwards definitely has a leg up on the rest of the field when he can stop by Iowa on the weekdays, not just coming in every other weekend. He’ll be speaking at a biomass plant in Nevada tomorrow. Here are the details:
[…]

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Posted at February 6, 2007 at 11:02 pm

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Tonight in the Statehouse, the Senate Ways and Means Committee voted the $1/pack increase on cigarette tax out of committee which means that the bill will go to the floor of the Senate for debate soon. The bill is Senate Study Bill 1055, which can be found here, but I’m sure the bill will […]

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Posted at February 5, 2007 at 5:03 pm

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I missed this on Friday, but Governor Culver mentioned during his appearance on Iowa that if the Iowa legislature passed Fair Share legislation that he would sign the bill into law:
“”They are talking about amending the current law. Very few people are talking about repealing ‘Right to Work’ law,” Culver says. Iowa’s so-called “Right to […]

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Posted at January 30, 2007 at 4:57 pm

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Gov. Culver’s first executive order (issued on Saturday, Jan. 27) that called for flying all flags at half-staff until sunset today wasn’t politically motivated, contrary to the bullshit that State 29 spewed, but a legitimate expression of remorse and respect by those at the highest levels of state government for the loss of Iowa’s highest-ranking […]

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Posted at January 30, 2007 at 2:40 pm

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Here is the introductory piece from the Register on Governor Culver’s proposed budget. You may remember that over the past couple of days, Culver has talked about parts of his budget plan, such as spending $70 million to increase teacher pay as well as invest $12.5 million to create a stem cell research center […]

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