Democrats Christina Bohannan and Ryan Melton are campaigning for Congress on opposite sides of the state and in very different districts, but they have one thing in common — firsthand experience running for the U.S. House. In 2022, Bohannan challenged the Republican incumbent in Iowa’s eastern-most congressional district, the 1st, while Melton ran in the […]
Mariannette Miller-Meeks
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Letter to the editor: An embarrassing vote from Miller-Meeks
By Don Paulson, Letts What an embarrassment to the people of eastern Iowa. Republican U.S. Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks voted “yes” to impeach the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on two trumped-up (no pun intended) charges that was done for political theater. Four Republicans sided with every Democrat to defeat the impeachment attempt. But […]
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Quad Cities Prayer Breakfast organizer David Pautsch announces run against Miller-Meeks
David Pautsch of Davenport announced this week he will challenge Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks for the Republican nomination in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, which covers much of southeast Iowa, including the Iowa City area. Pautsch considers Miller-Meeks to be too liberal, and told the Quad City Times the two-term incumbent is “too often out of step […]
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The ‘door of impeachable whatever’ is creaking open in the U.S. House, and Iowa’s Republican representatives are ready
On Tuesday, the first working day for the U.S. House of Representatives after its most recent vacation, Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced he had ordered House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden’s actions. Exactly what actions prompted the inquiry were left unsaid, as nine months of investigations by multiple House committees […]
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Democrat Christina Bohannan wants a second round against Rep. Miller-Meeks, announcing 2024 campaign for Congress
Democrat Christina Bohannan announced on Tuesday she is running for the 1st District U.S. House seat currently held by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks. Bohannan was the Democratic nominee for the seat in 2022 and lost, just like every other Democrat running for the House in Iowa. Bohannan kicked off her new campaign at the United Food […]
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Election 2022: Johnson County remains a Democratic stronghold, as Republicans sweep to victories statewide
Johnson County remained a bright spot for Iowa Democrats on Tuesday, even as Republicans dominated Election Day statewide. Every Democrat in a statewide race carried the county by a large margin, even as they were defeated by Republicans. The only possible exception to that pattern is the Auditor of State race, which was still too […]
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In the new District 1, Democrat Christina Bohannan faces a staunchly anti-abortion, GOP super PAC-supported incumbent
Southeast Iowa has gone from being the 2nd Congressional District to the 1st since Christina Bohannan began running for its U.S. House seat in August 2021. But the major concerns of its residents have remained the same, she said. Inflation and the cost of living has been a constant topic, Bohannan told Little Village. ”When […]
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Election 2022: Public Measure 1 would eliminate ‘current and future common-sense gun laws’
Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks was blunt in his assessment of Public Measure 1, which would amend the Iowa Constitution in a way that would stop most attempts to regulate guns in the state. “This amendment is a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” Maybanks said at a news conference on Tuesday at the Cedar Rapids Public […]
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Iowa Republican leaders line up behind Trump after FBI raid: ‘We’ve got a right 2b skeptical’
Iowa’s leading Republicans once again followed Donald Trump’s lead and used social media on Tuesday to suggest corruption led to FBI agents executing a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property on Monday. Not corruption on Trump’s part, of course. Iowa GOP leaders have consistently ignored or avoided acting on evidence of Trump’s corruption, whether personal, […]
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Former Rep. Jim Leach breaks with the Republican Party, endorses Bohannan for House and Franken for Senate
Jim Leach, who represented Johnson County and much of southeastern Iowa in Congress for 30 years as a Republican, changed his party registration to Democrat ahead of the June 7 primary, the Quad City Times reported on Wednesday. “Today, the Republican Party that I spent so many years with has really let the country down,” […]
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Reps. Hinson and Miller-Meeks vote against raising the age to buy semiautomatic rifles, Red Flag laws and other gun safety measures
On Wednesday, members of the Oversight and Reform Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives watched a video in which Miah Cerrillo described the mass shooting that killed 19 of her classmates and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. “He shot my friend that was next to me,” she said in a […]
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‘I think our democracy is absolutely on the line’: Christina Bohannan talks about why she is running for Congress
Christina Bohannan opened her campaign office in Iowa City on Saturday, with a brief speech about why she is running for Congress in the newly drawn 1st District. “I think we all know there is so much at stake in this election in 2022,” Bohannan, who is running unopposed for the Democratic nomination, told the […]
