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		<title>Rep. Jeff Kaufmann (IA 79) &#8211; end of session wrapup</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/07/14/rep-jeff-kaufmann-ia-79-end-of-session-wrapup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 172 days we finally adjourned! Iowa chose to have both parties in control last November and I believe they made the right choice. I know that the far left and far right extremes, do not agree, but a government of the extremes is not Main Street Iowa. Property tax reform and relief remain a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Kaufmann (IA-79) &#8211; Nuclear Legislation Bills</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/04/03/rep-kaufmann-ia-79-nuclear-legislation-bills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many claims have been made by groups that are against SF 390 and HF 561, the nuclear legislation bill. Here is a list of some of them and an explanation of what is actually in the bill. “Voting for the bill is a vote to raise rates.” The bill does not change the fact that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Jeff Kaufmann (IA-79) Your Capitol Voice</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/03/21/1534/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 20, 2011 Your Capitol Voice Representative Jeff Kaufmann This week is the second funnel week of the session which means that in order to survive; bills must pass one chamber and a committee in the other. Work this week will concentrate on meeting this deadline. The month of April will then focus on drawing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you want less of it &#8211; tax it.</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/03/11/if-you-want-less-of-it-tax-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Football</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illinois just passed a tax that will lose them money not gain it. They are taxing affiliates of Amazon over 6%. Before now internet acquisitions were not taxed in Illinois. &#8220;Illinois has about 9,000 affiliates, said Rebecca Madigan, director of an affiliate trade group called the Performance Marketing Association. She said the Illinois affiliates generated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Note from Rep. Kaufmann on Iowa Pre-K debate</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/03/06/note-from-rep-kaufmann-on-iowa-pre-k-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week there will be two very controversial bills debated in the House. The first bill which is the amended Branstad pre-K plan will pass and some form will ultimately pass the Senate. The second, a bill dealing with collective bargaining will pass but will be dead in the Senate. The DM Register, hardly a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe it&#8217;s just me&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/02/25/maybe-its-just-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually write at least a January 1 blog post but never got around TUIT. Dr. Miller-Meeks is still in the confirmation stages of becoming the Director of Iowa Public Health. I think she&#8217;ll do a great job and is actually made for this job. I applaud both her and Governor Branstad for taking drastic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Jeff Kaufmann (IA-79) 2010 Veteran&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/11/14/rep-jeff-kaufmann-ia-79-2010-veterans-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A message from Representative Jeff Kaufmann (IA-79)                       Representing parts of Muscatine, Cedar and Johnson Counties in Iowa. Last week I participated in an outstanding Veterans Day service at the Tipton Middle School. The brief video “We Fought For You” was shown and it is the best presentation of the meaning of this day that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Miller-Meeks is the Best</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/11/01/dr-miller-meeks-is-the-best/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/11/01/dr-miller-meeks-is-the-best/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States could do better, Iowa can do better, we in CD2 can do better than our current elected officials. Dr. Miller-Meeks&#8217; opponent attends ceremonial events and visits campaign offices and won&#8217;t talk about his record. According to this morning&#8217;s Journal 20 people showed up at his event Saturday in Muscatine and Dr. Miller-Meeks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawkeyes for Dr. Miller-Meeks!</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/10/31/hawkeyes-for-miller-meeks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/10/31/hawkeyes-for-miller-meeks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the most important election of my lifetime. Vote Dr. Miller-Meeks for Congress.  Stop the lies Dave &#8211; if you can&#8217;t run on your record, give up.]]></description>
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		<title>Miller-Meeks Campaign Uses Augmented Reality</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/10/24/miller-meeks-campaign-uses-augmented-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Miller-Meeks Campaign First Experiment with New Image Recognition Technology As early as the 2008 presidential campaign, politics has explored social engines as a means to communicate and they continue to move into the next level of technology. The Mariannette Miller-Meeks campaign has selected to use augmented reality as part of their strategy to reach voters. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn, Listen and Lead</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/09/28/learn-listen-and-lead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn Listen Lead - a video from a visit Dr. Miller-Meeks made to an assembled group in Muscatine &#8211; Pre-Primary 2010. A short bio of our candidate for Congress: Dr. Miller-Meeks is the 4th of 8 children, raised in a military family (father was career Air Force).  At 15 she was burned in a kitchen fire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not the Economy it&#8217;s the Policies</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/09/14/its-not-the-economy-its-the-policies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/09/14/its-not-the-economy-its-the-policies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone seems to be wringing their hands over the weak economy.  The price of gas goes up with every oil spill or pipe line break and Economists hover over jobs reports and love to tell us the stock market is rising. When will the cycle of bad economic trends break?  I&#8217;m not understanding why it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Loebsack&#8217;s World&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/09/13/in-loebsacks-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Representative Loebsack&#8217;s world, his &#8220;representation&#8221; of IA-02 seems to have started just a few months ago when Dr. Miller-Meeks charged out of the Republican primary with an over whelming victory.  But hey, we haven&#8217;t heard from him except for some very pretty (expensive) franked (I paid for it) mail, and now a TV ad showing smiling people at a Town Hall (that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What if We Win?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/09/01/what-if-we-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The November elections seem like a long time from now but also seem to be right around the corner and we&#8217;re not ready; we haven&#8217;t done all we could to ensure victory.  With the reports of a 10 point lead for a generic Republican over a generic Democrat &#8211; a tsunami seems inevitable, but projecting victory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Miller-Meeks on the Move</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/08/26/dr-miller-meeks-on-the-move/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go to this site to make a secure donation to Dr. Miller-Meeks&#8217; campaign or HERE for more policy information. Mrs. Charles Grassley was in Muscatine again, promoting the candidacy of Dr. Miller-Meeks for Congress &#8211; where we also learned that Steve Forbes has just endorsed the good doctor.  Mrs. Grassley was last in Muscatine during Mariannette&#8217;s announcement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miller-Meeks Aims for November!</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/08/24/miller-meeks-aims-for-november/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Miller-Meeks is continuing to gather momentum for the November Election. National Review Online notes today (insert and link below) that Miller-Meeks should defeat Representative Loebsack in this highly democratic district with &#8220;luck or a wave&#8221;.  The wave is an 18 point lead by the head of the Iowa ticket former Governor Branstad, and with this surgeon&#8217;s laser [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking to November</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/06/17/looking-to-november/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us in Muscatine will be spending our summer and fall finding as many independent votes for MMM as we can.  Muscatine County Republicans voted overwhelmingly for MMM (almost 70% of the votes in a 4 candidate race) but Muscatine is almost equaly divided R / I / D &#8211; maybe slanted I at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Thoughts &#8211; CD2 Primary</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/06/13/final-thoughts-cd2-primary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/06/13/final-thoughts-cd2-primary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the official tally for the CD2 Republican Primary.  and a photo by Wm Dahlsten  (Husband Curt and son Jonathon in the background) while MMM gives her Victory speech.   The text of her speech is here I have a .wav file of her speech but I need to break it into two parts to post.  check [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh What a Night!</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/06/09/oh-what-a-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[6/09/10 update &#8211; I will write a more lengthy summary later but it looks like MMM lost WAYNE county &#8211; I think I have copied some bad data for WAYNE below. Wayne&#8217;s current unofficial #s are   MMM &#8211; 241 REED &#8211; 249 Gettemy &#8211; 41 Rathje &#8211; 26 so the WAYNE #s below are bogus. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kaufmann (IA-79) 2010 04 Newsletter</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/05/03/kaufmann-ia-79-2010-04-newsletter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 02:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Representative Jeff Kaufmann April Newsletter I hope you are enjoying this beautiful spring! I am a bit late for my monthly electronic newsletter but I wanted to wait for the complete analysis of the State Auditor’s report on the budget. If you do not read anything else, check this out. I have also included a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 April 24 Your Capitol Voice</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/04/26/2010-april-24-your-capitol-voice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your Capitol Voice Representative Jeff Kaufmann             It has been two weeks since the end of the 2010 legislative session and time to pen my last column.  Since adjournment I have had three additional forums with at least one to go.             There is acknowledgement among legislators of both parties that there was good bipartisan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 April 19 Your Capital Voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your Capitol Voice   From: Representative Jeff Kaufmann, R &#8211; Wilton (D-79)             The 2010 legislative session ended last week and many citizens are evaluating laws and policies that passed.  I want to discuss the decisions that I believe will benefit Iowans and those that will not, and in some cases make a bad fiscal situation worse.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deeper Recessions, smaller recoveries</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/03/28/deeper-recessions-smaller-recoveries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The talk of more and more Recession possibilities in the future and smaller recoveries reflect a dying economy. China is even giving us good advice &#8211; stop building entitlement programs and attack your DEBT! Can I be depressing enough to say I don&#8217;t even think we&#8217;re in a recovery. I think the world changed as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are the Leaders?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/02/07/where-are-the-leaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My whole world seems to stop on Super Bowl afternoon &#8211; so I&#8217;m catching up on a few organizational things including some blogging.  I&#8217;m watching the pre-game and may interject some comments. Fun to watch the playoffs when I don&#8217;t care who wins.  What a finish to the season if WhO DaT NaTioN gets a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MILLER-MEEKS 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/11/30/miller-meeks-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ERIC WOOLSON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2009     515-681-3967   MILLER-MEEKS LAUNCHES 2010 CAMPAIGN AGAINST LOEBSACK IN IOWA’S SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT  MUSCATINE – Dr. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, the 2008 GOP nominee in the Second Congressional District, today formally launched her campaign for her party’s 2010 nomination by urging Iowans to make history by electing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Now!</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/08/23/health-care-misinformation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HERE is a Link to the full text of an August Press Presidential Conference on Health Care. [my comments] Each and every day in this country, Americans are grappling with health care premiums that are growing three times the rate of wages and insurance company policies that limit coverage and raise out-of-pocket costs. Thousands are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Loebsack Are You Listening?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/08/22/mr-loebsack-are-you-listening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Muscatine Town Hall was today and reports from the Louisa County Town Hall were the same as ours &#8211; it was &#8220;tame&#8221;. When I arrived at the Muscatine venue 90 minutes early I was pleased the auditorium was open, was not looking forward to standing in line. For the first 30 minutes even as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News U can use 04/02/09</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/04/02/news-u-can-use-040209/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be a debate on whether there are votes to carry Federal Tax issue in the Iowa House.  We shall see. The US House has actually denied the President his wish to increase taxes on wealthy people who contribute to charities in a large way == read more here - it was unanimous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baker Cleared the House&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/04/01/baker-clears-the-hous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were 3-4 seconds of boos or applause for each speaker, and the crowd was quiet for the next guy &#8211; no interruptions during the 3 minute orations. Absolutely no reason to kick us out. I&#8217;ve been in the chamber when the Governor walks in and there are all kinds of cat-calls and whistling &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>world turned upside down</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/03/10/world-turned-upside-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the President gave a DVD movie set to his first foreign visitor. Sounds pretty odd and not very Presidential. If the set was one that could not run on European equipment &#8211; I know they are different &#8211; that would be embarrassing. The &#8220;excuse&#8221; given for that and various other issues is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa Imploading</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/02/24/iowa-imploading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I promised my next post to be about the economy and W, but I can&#8217;t stand this. Dig this. An Iowa Senate Committee just passed a bill to the Senate that is about the dumbest thing I have ever seen in politics. They calmly 8-7 (2 Dems voted no) passed a bill out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy of a Bill that Died&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday – February 19, 2009 from the Iowa House Minority Leader Kraig Paulsen 9:16 a.m. House convenes with the expectation we will begin debating HF 333 in the morning. The Majority Leader tells me Rep. Olson will have a corrective amendment coming, they expect it around lunch time and we will begin debate then. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 &#8211; are we ready?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/02/22/2009-are-we-ready/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When is the Iowa Spring Game? Will we have one with the turf change? ok back to politics. This is certainly not the way I expected 2009 to roll out, but I cannot say I&#8217;m surprised. I mean, who of you thought the price of housing would continue to rise forever and 0% down made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Message from Rep. Kaufmann</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/01/07/a-message-from-rep-kaufmann/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  We saw this train wreck coming two years ago  Blaming our budget disaster on the floods or the national economy might be politically expedient but it is simply not accurate. We have seen this fiscal &#8220;train wreck&#8221; long ago, especially after the two-year increase in state spending of 17 percent. Our state budget problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RANTS-n-Raves</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2008/12/19/rants-n-raves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a newsletter I got from Senator Rants &#8211; an Iowa State Senator that must be running for Governor or something&#8230; Well I thought the current Governor&#8217;s memo to state employees was creepy myself&#8230; saying &#8220;this is not our fault&#8221; when gee &#8211; in the NOVEMBER elections all the Republicans in the state were [...]]]></description>
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