By Gregg Keller
I’ve been thrilled to return to my old political stomping grounds of Iowa for most of this week to hold meetings with our dynamic Iowa FFC President, Steve Scheffler. Although we have 23 FFC affiliates organized across the country, Iowa is certainly one of our strongest thanks to Steve and our team here. Steve and I held meetings with local business and community leaders in Dubuque, Davenport, Waterloo and Des Moines, spreading the word about what Iowa FFC is doing to identify, educate and turnout conservatives in 2010 and 2012 in the Hawkeye State.
The highlight of my visit to Iowa, however, was certainly the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition house party hosted by Jeff and Melissa Jochims in Clive Thursday night. The house party was a tremendous success, with nearly 100 attendees. We were joined by some fantastic conservative candidates who will be on the ballot in November, including: Sen. Kim Reynolds, candidate for Lieutenant Governor; Brenna Findley, who is running for Attorney General; Matt Schultz, who is an exciting young candidate for Secretary of State; Story County Treasurer Dave Jamison who hopefully will be promoted after election day; and, Sen. Brad Zaun who has the honor of taking on Washington insider liberal Leonard Boswell.
There may not be a state in the country this year that has a more impressive group of young, aggressive, smart conservatives running statewide than Iowa. It will be exciting there come Election Day!
