Voters in Iowa Senate District 18 head to the polls today to decide between Republican Cindy Golding and Democrat Liz Mathis. But phones in the district have been ringing for days as the candidates and third-party supporters hope to sway and influence voters in their direction.
MARION — A handful of voters in Iowa Senate District 18 gathered in the Walmart parking lot Monday morning to hear from Republican candidate Cindy Golding and several social conservative groups that have supported her bid.
Citizens United, a conservative political group based in Washington, D.C., is making independent expenditures in Senate District 18 just days before a Nov. 8 special election to decide the balance of power in the Iowa Senate.
Gov. Terry Branstad says the Republican candidate in a Nov. 8 Iowa Senate special election faces “an uphill battle” and cautioned that special elections “are not much an indicator” for the mood of the electorate as whole.
Iowa Senate District 18 Democratic candidate Liz Mathis raked in $64,306 between Oct. 15 and Nov. 1 and took in-kind contributions worth $269,898, outraising Republican Cindy Golding.
Cindy Golding, the Republican candidate in a special election for Senate District 18, raised $42,038 from Oct. 15 to Nov. 1 and took in-kind contributions totaling $94,061.
The Washington, D.C. based National Organization for Marriage has proven it has no qualms about spending thousands in Iowa’s Senate District 18 to stir the pot on gay marriage. The group also appears to have no qualms about assigning its own talking points to Republican candidate Cindy Golding.
MARION — Although candidates in Iowa Senate District 18 agreed local residents haven’t been asking about the social issues that seem to be the focus of national media and third-party groups regarding this special election, they nonetheless received and answered questions on those topics during a League of Women Voters More…
The national buzz on Iowa’s upcoming special election in Senate District 18 may be focused on the future of civil marriage, but you’d never know it from the candidate outreach to local residents.
Ann Romney, wife of GOP presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, will be in Marion at noon on Wednesday to attend a luncheon at the Linn County GOP Headquarters alongside newly selected Iowa Senate candidate Cindy Golding.
Notice of Romney’s upcoming Iowa tour was circulated by her husband’s More…
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