Voters Need to Know: Ernst Took Illegal Contributions & Broke Anti-Corruption Laws; Voted for Secret $500b Slush Fund & Against Paid Family Leave
Iowa voters need to continue to hear that: Ernst’s campaign knowingly and illegally accepted illegal contributions and violated anti-corruption laws through her ties to dark money; and As the coronavirus pandemic was spreading in America, Joni Ernst voted against paid sick leave for Iowans – twice – and opposed more relief for our Iowa hospitals […]
Trump Left Behind Suffering Iowans With Failure to Act On Derecho
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sunday, August 23, 2020 CONTACT: press@iowademocrats.org Trump Left Behind Suffering Iowans With Failure to Act On Derecho The Cedar Rapids Gazette Editorial Board outlined the ways in which Iowans suffered because Trump took too long to approve relief DES MOINES — Almost a week ago, President Trump claimed to have approved disaster […]
Battleground Iowa Launches Weekend of Action
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, August 21, 2020 CONTACT: press@iowademocrats.org Battleground Iowa Launches Weekend of Action Building on the momentum from the DNC Convention, Battleground Iowa’s first Weekend of Action is this weekend DES MOINES — This weekend, Iowa Democrats are building on the excitement from the DNC Convention to launch Battleground Iowa’s first Weekend of […]
Iowa Dems Dispatch: Convention Special Edition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, August 21, 2020 CONTACT: press@iowademocrats.org Iowa Dems Dispatch: Convention Special Edition This week Iowa Democrats celebrated the DNC Convention as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris officially became the party’s nominees to oust Trump in November DES MOINES — This week, Iowa Democrats celebrated the DNC’s one-of-a-kind virtual convention where Joe Biden […]
Will Hinson Hold Trump to His Promise To Provide Iowans With Relief?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 19, 2020 CONTACT: press@iowademocrats.org Will Hinson Hold Trump to His Promise To Provide Iowans With Bare-Minimum Relief? Ashley Hinson Praised Trump’s Photo-Op One Day After He Lied to Iowans About Individual Assistance Aid DES MOINES — Yesterday, State Rep. Ashley Hinson stood side by side with President Trump as he […]
Iowa GOP Candidates Silent as SCOTUS to Hear GOP’s Anti-ACA Lawsuit
Senator Ernst, Hinson, Young, Miller-Meeks, and Feenstra have refused to answer if they support the GOP lawsuit that could repeal coverage protections for pre-existing conditions, undo Iowa’s Medicaid Expansion Today, following news that the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the GOP’s dangerous lawsuit to repeal the entire Affordable Care Act just one week […]
Iowa Democratic Party Statement on Surpassing 1,000 COVID-19 Deaths
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 19, 2020 CONTACT: press@iowademocrats.org Iowa Democratic Party Statement on Surpassing 1,000 COVID-19 Deaths in Iowa DES MOINES — Iowa Democratic Party Chair Mark Smith released the following statement as Iowa surpassed 1,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 complications: “This morning, we woke up to a state where over 1,000 of our […]
Despite Desperate Debate Stunts, Ernst Skips 2nd Nonpartisan Forum on Protecting Social Security
Facing an Election-Year Fallout with Seniors, Ernst Hides from Voters to Avoid Answering for her Reckless Push to Gut Retirement Benefits For the second time in three weeks, vulnerable incumbent Senator Joni Ernst skipped a nonpartisan forum yesterday focused on the importance of protecting Social Security benefits for future generations. Ernst’s failure to show up […]
Ernst Uses Derecho Meeting to Try to Cover Up Her Vote to Confirm A Fossil Fuel Lobbyist to Head the EPA
At a meeting today focused on recovery efforts in the aftermath of last week’s devastating derecho, Senator Joni Ernst saw political opportunity in the occasion to try to cover up her harmful record of advancing Big Oil’s agenda in Washington. However, the truth is Senator Ernst is the reason Iowa’s farmers and biofuels industry are […]
Ernst Silent as GOP Attacks Postal Service in Order to Disenfranchise Mail-In Voters
The GOP’s Sabotage of USPS Delays Medicine Deliveries by Weeks, Could Block Arrival of Critical Supplies in Derecho Aftermath Running scared of her record and growing more desperate by the week, Senator Joni Ernst has refused to condemn the GOP’s dangerous, unprecedented effort to sabotage the U.S. Postal Service in order to disenfranchise swaths of […]