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Congressman Steve King scored a major legal battle and, if I might
add, also a political battle today over Lug and his Secretary of State
replacement Mike Mauro. Mr. King has clearly made it a priority to
protect this very important law that he passed as a State Senator.
English only in Iowa survives and Chet Culver's obsession with
multilingual government documents, which were against the law, was
slapped down. I hope our Republican nominee in 2010 is ready to use
this against Culver. Chet Culver violated the law. I would love to see
that on big letters on my TV screen in the fall of 2010. King had been
fighting this battle tooth and nail for over a year and it was just
delightful to see a judge uphold the legislature's law, which is the
elected will of the people.

Labels: Chet_Culver, Mike_Mauro, Steve_King

Iowa Secretary of State Mike Mauro testified in Washington Wednesday
on a Senate bill that would end the frontloading and leapfrog
competition between states seeking early presidential nominating
contests. S1905, sponsored by Senators Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Lamar!
Alexander, R-Tenn., and Joe Lieberman, Former Democrat-Conn., would
create four regional primaries in early March, April, May and June of
2012. The order would be determined by lot and then rotated in future
cycles. The bill exempts Iowa and New Hampshire, who would remain
first. "Iowa and New Hampshire do an excellent job in vetting
candidates," Mauro said in prepared remarks before the Senate Rules
and Administration Committee.

Labels: caucus dates, Mike_Mauro