Sunday, August 13, 2006
SOS Round-Up
Not much original news here, but to save you some time and energy, here's a quick round-up of the situation with the Republican Secretary of State Nomination. According to state central committee member and blogger extraordinaire, Ted Sporer, the state central committee will be meeting (by conference call, if I heard correctly elsewhere) to pick a nominee on Monday evening.
On his blog, Sporer is seeking input from the grassroots, as to who the committee should pick. If you are really impassioned, you might also consider contacting our district reps on the state central committee.
According to Sporer, and as discussed on other blogs, the following folks are being considered/seeking the nomination (in alphabetical order):
Steve Curchill
Mary Ann Hanusa
Mike Hartwig
Jeff Heil
More details on each are below:
Steve Churchill is a former state representative from Johnston, Iowa. Yepsen has a brief profile, but I can't find any other good synposis of his background online.
Mary Ann Hanusa currently works in the West Wing of the White House as the director of Presidential Correspondence. Prior to that, she worked on the district staff of Senator Grassley, and was apparently active in the 2000 Presidential campaign in western Iowa. She was mentioned a couple times in this Register Profile of WH Staff. Here's another story about her campaign for the nomination.
Mike Hartwig was the nominee in 2004. He is currently vice president of the Iowa Family Policy Center, and apparently executive director of Marriage Matters of Iowa.
Jeff Heil was Marshall County Auditor for seven years. He currently works as an analyst for Ruan Securities Corporation, where you can find his current bio. He's also got an MBA, and rumor is that he may be willing to commit some significant financial resources.
In my opinion, we should pick someone who can do the job well. In reality, the winner of this election is going to be driven by who wins the Governor's Race . . . I just can't imagine people voting for Jim Nussle and then dropping down and voting for Mauro, so the key is to have who is capable, credible, and able to commit some time to helping excite people about the race and doesn't provide any reasons for someone not to continue down the party line.
But at the end of the day -- we just have to have someone on the ballot, and when Nussle wins, he'll be bringing a few new members of the executive council along with him.
Hopefully, as soon as a decision is made, we'll have more info out.
On his blog, Sporer is seeking input from the grassroots, as to who the committee should pick. If you are really impassioned, you might also consider contacting our district reps on the state central committee.
According to Sporer, and as discussed on other blogs, the following folks are being considered/seeking the nomination (in alphabetical order):
Steve Curchill
Mary Ann Hanusa
Mike Hartwig
Jeff Heil
More details on each are below:
Steve Churchill is a former state representative from Johnston, Iowa. Yepsen has a brief profile, but I can't find any other good synposis of his background online.
Mary Ann Hanusa currently works in the West Wing of the White House as the director of Presidential Correspondence. Prior to that, she worked on the district staff of Senator Grassley, and was apparently active in the 2000 Presidential campaign in western Iowa. She was mentioned a couple times in this Register Profile of WH Staff. Here's another story about her campaign for the nomination.
Mike Hartwig was the nominee in 2004. He is currently vice president of the Iowa Family Policy Center, and apparently executive director of Marriage Matters of Iowa.
Jeff Heil was Marshall County Auditor for seven years. He currently works as an analyst for Ruan Securities Corporation, where you can find his current bio. He's also got an MBA, and rumor is that he may be willing to commit some significant financial resources.
In my opinion, we should pick someone who can do the job well. In reality, the winner of this election is going to be driven by who wins the Governor's Race . . . I just can't imagine people voting for Jim Nussle and then dropping down and voting for Mauro, so the key is to have who is capable, credible, and able to commit some time to helping excite people about the race and doesn't provide any reasons for someone not to continue down the party line.
But at the end of the day -- we just have to have someone on the ballot, and when Nussle wins, he'll be bringing a few new members of the executive council along with him.
Hopefully, as soon as a decision is made, we'll have more info out.
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Of all the choices I like Jeff Heil the best. I know he floated the idea of getting into the race back in Decemeber (and I think that if he would have he could have won the primary). The only downside is (I know this is petty) the guy is short. Other than that...War Jeff Heil.
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Of all the choices I like Jeff Heil the best. I know he floated the idea of getting into the race back in Decemeber (and I think that if he would have he could have won the primary). The only downside is (I know this is petty) the guy is short. Other than that...War Jeff Heil.
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