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One issue that I have blogged about extensively is Iowa’s brain drain. Tim Hoy understands this issue and how it effects rural Iowa. He is running to create an environment that encourages our young generations to view Iowa as a place to call home.

To create an environment that encourages young Iowans to call Iowa home, something must be done about the amount of student loan debt our college graduates accumulate, there must high wage jobs, and there must be ample recreation opportunities in the state (which means we must have clean waterways).

If you want to create this kind of environment in Iowa, please donate to Tim Hoy’s campaign.

The 2nd fundraising period ends on Tuesday, July 15th. We have a goal of 15 donors by the 15th and are currently at 10 donors. Since my post asking for donations last Thursday, we have raised $540, but are still short of our goal of 15 donors.

Please help expand the majority in the Iowa House by donating to Tim Hoy or these other great candidates we have featured in the past few months: Elesha Gayman, Eric Palmer, McKinley Bailey, Jerry Sullivan, and Nate Willems.

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The end of the first fundraising quarter is Monday, March 31st and I thought I’d ask my readers to consider donating to one of the candidates on the Iowa Democratic Bloggers ActBlue page.

The candidates that I would like to ask you to consider donating to are Elesha Gayman, McKinley Bailey, and Eric Palmer. These three candidates have been targeted by a group funded by RJ Reynolds, Mid American Energy, and other corporations. Negative ads have been running throughout their districts on the issues of property tax relief and fair share.

These candidates are all serving in their first term in the Iowa House and are top targets by state Republicans. Please chip in to help these great candidates counter the corporate funded attack ads and win re-election this November.

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A group funded by RJ Reynolds, Mid American Energy, and other corporations is running TV and radio ads that target a handful of incumbent House Democrats that includes Elesha Gayman, Eric Palmer, McKinley Bailey, Bob Kressig, and Art Staed.

The ads have run on cable TV and are paid for by the Iowa Leadership Council, a group organized under the Internal Revenue Code that allows it to raise unlimited contributions.

The council raised $214,550 in the last six months of 2007, according to IRS records, with the largest donors the Reynolds American tobacco company, which gave $40,000, and MidAmerican Energy Holdings, which donated $25,000.

These ads are applauded by Cyclone Conservative who goes searching for a slogan Republicans can spin in the election. He says that Republicans need to start the attacks now and repeat a slogan over and over again.

The slogan that he comes up with says that Democrats are against property tax relief and against keeping jobs in the state. This is absolutely ridiculous. He makes it sound like Democrats want all Iowans to be unemployed and want to force them to hand over all of their money in property taxes.

After running on slogans like “God, Gays, and Guns” for years now, Republicans should realize by now that they no longer are working. Republicans need to forget the slogans and focus on ideas. All of their ideas have run there course and now what is left, is an empty party that is only able to push wedge issues, while they attempt to come up with more meaningless slogans.

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Democrats in the Iowa House spent a lot of time discussing veterans issues during the first week of the legislative session.

On the first day of the session, Speaker of the House Murphy honored Rep. Ray Zirkelbach for his service in Iraq. Zirkelbach is the chair of the House Veterans Affairs Committee and has called for actions to help better care for Iowa’s Veterans…

Zirkelbach said he wants to ensure that all returning military personnel have access to quality mental-health care — especially in rural Iowa.

Between 12 and 20 percent of Iraq war veterans will suffer post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

“Today I’m asking for your help and support to ensure that all Iowa veterans have access to medical and mental-health service, as well as educational and employment support that we deserve,” Zirkelbach told his colleagues.

On Tuesday, Rep. McKinley Bailey, who served in Iraq, introduced a bill (HF 2001) about military leaves of absence and reemployment.

Democrats in the Iowa House are leading the charge to ensure our Veterans have the benefits and care they need.

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