Will Jacobs’ Texas shoe fit Iowa?
Comedian Jeff Foxworthy built an industry with one of the best joke set-ups since “Knock-knock.” “You must be a redneck if…” goes the moneymaker in the Foxworthy arsenal. Similarly, political [...]
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Posted December 18, 2013in Political Mercury
Posted December 11, 2013in Political Mercury
Mirror, mirror on Tyler Olson’s wall
Is Tyler Olson running a gubernatorial campaign or life-synching his way through a Hall and Oates song? “Leave me alone, I’m a family man…” (Of course, vote for me, before [...]
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Posted December 04, 2013in Political Mercury
Former Houston CEO pins Iowa political bid on job creation
A 51-year-old retired Texas energy company CEO, who recently returned to his native Iowa to launch a bid for the U.S. Senate, says Hawkeye State voters will overlook the carpetbagger [...]
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Posted November 27, 2013in Political Mercury
Rod doesn’t hang his sneakers in the hurt locker
Rod Roberts is a supremely nice man, in a courtly way that makes you think he time-machined here from more serious decades in America when manners mattered. He is also [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in Political Mercury
Governor: Veterans can touch ‘Home Base’ in Iowa
A who’s-who list of Iowa business leaders joined military and state officials at Camp Dodge in Johnston last Tuesday for the unveiling of Gov. Terry Branstad’s Home Base Iowa, a [...]
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Posted November 13, 2013in Political Mercury
Ike’s House
After the success of D-Day, a reporter asked Ida Eisenhower, mother of the commander of the Allied invasion of Europe, if she was proud of her son. “Which one?” replied [...]
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Posted November 06, 2013in Political Mercury
‘If you aren’t already related to a Latino…’
One in six Americans is Latino. The ethnic group is the fastest-growing in the nation. More than half of all babies born in the United States are minorities — and [...]
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Posted October 30, 2013in Political Mercury
Pedestals and patriots from Matt Whitaker’s perspective
Kentucky’s Rand Paul based an extraordinarily effective Cedar Rapids speech on its contents. His colleague in the Senate who compiles it annually served as a key source in a “60 [...]
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Posted October 23, 2013in Political Mercury
You cannot be serious, Congressman Wikipedia
They are ever-present bit players on the modern political stage, ragamuffins with recorders at rallies and town halls. Political trackers. Republican and Democrats hire them to trail opposing candidates and [...]
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Posted October 16, 2013in Political Mercury
Roberts, GOP’s strongest candidate, remains in U.S. Senate mix, decision on bid expected in weeks
Former State Rep. Rod Roberts of Carroll says he plans to make a decision within weeks on a possible bid for the U.S. Senate. “Yes, I’m still seriously considering running,” [...]
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