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Subscribe to RSSCan you believe there's only a year until the Iowa caucus and the countdown to "Decision 2012" begins? The Republican Women of Black Hawk County are already getting geared up.
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Iowa Federation of Republican Women Vice President Joni Scotter talks with Republican Women of Black Hawk County Finance Chair Mary Ellen Treloar after a meeting at Beck's Restaurant February 4, 2011 in Waterloo, Iowa. Support from small but dedicated groups like these is key to victory in the famous Iowa Caucuses for candidates seeking the U.S. presidency. "We're good campaigners," President of Black Hawk Republican Women Iann Veldhuizen said. "We make phone calls. We put out signs. We bake cakes!"
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Republican Women of Black Hawk County President Iann Veldhuizen (L) shares a laugh with Legislative Chair Barbara Redman after a meeting at Beck's Restaurant February 4, 2011 in Waterloo, Iowa.
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Republican Women of Black Hawk County member Sandra Benedett tells State Sen. Bill Dix (R-IA) that she doesn't support public funding for preschool education during a bi-monthly luncheon meeting at Beck's Restaurant February 4, 2011 in Waterloo, Iowa.
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Copies of the United States Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and a group of receipies from U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley's (R-IA) wife Barbara Grassley are available to people attending a bi-monthly luncheon of the Republican Women of Black Hawk County at Beck's Restaurant February 4, 2011 in Waterloo, Iowa.
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Members arrive for a bi-monthly luncheon of the Republican Women of Black Hawk County at Beck's Restaurant February 4, 2011 in Waterloo, Iowa.
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I'm an independent voter who finds the candidates and media both condescending and juvenile in their "attitude" towards Iowans. First, the candidates approach us like they're running for deacons of a church, when we're looking for a Commander-in Chief. The media follows these pandering charlatans to every small town Pizza Ranch, earnestly reporting their nuggets of inconsequential brimstone, as "news". We WANT "gotcha" questions from the media, not the lazy reporting we've been given. Little wonder that the world thinks of us as hayseeds, when candidates and media spend their PAC dollars and spending accounts making their own stories and then retreating to the nearest hotel room or bar. Or church. The voters want to know how these candidates will create the millions of jobs they promise and restore manufacturing jobs they helped send abroad, never to return. What deregulation of industries, that have made our streams, rivers, & lakes the recipients of corporate hog confinement excrement will help us? How will continuing tax cuts to the wealthy "job creators" make Iowa or the nation better in the future? Why, doesn't the media ask tough questions anymore? Is everyone in on the game? Don't blame Iowans. Take a good look in the mirror.