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		<title>Are U Ready for the BOOM???</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/08/31/are-u-ready-for-the-boom-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hawkeye Football 2011 starts Saturday @ 11am. some good articles: http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/anf/spec-rel/why-anf.html http://iowa.scout.com/2/1100849.html  http://hawkcentral.com/2011/08/26/your-guide-to-the-new-look-hawkeyes/ &#8220;Vandenberg completed 42-of-87 passes for 470 yards and two touchdowns as a redshirt freshman filling in for Stanzi. More importantly, he went to the Horseshoe in Columbus, Ohio, and nearly knocked off the Buckeyes on their home field in his first start.&#8221; This [...]]]></description>
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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>Stupid is as Stupid does&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/06/02/stupid-is-as-stupid-does/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 03:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check down below on this blog to a post I wrote a month or so ago about Econ 101 &#8211; if you want LESS of something TAX it.  It worked on cigarrette taxing, and many other things. Now a member of the Obama Administration is admitting that people could avoid tax penalties by earning less income. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In a Perfect World</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/05/16/in-a-perfect-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 02:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go here if you want to read more about my last 4 weeks&#8230; Maybe all hospitals are like this but I only have one major complaint about UIHC.  It seems to me that no department seems to talk to the other and I&#8217;m trying to learn to adjust to that. The latest example was today&#8230;  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Month that was&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/04/27/the-month-that-was/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a story about my last two + weeks, but really started much earlier. I just wasn&#8217;t feeling well. What was actually happening was internal bleeding and blood pressure slowly sinking to nothing. My eye doctor told me he wanted to take me to the emergency room, I said no, I&#8217;d call PK and [...]]]></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>More on Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/03/16/more-on-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 03:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dame M. Thatcher said famously, &#8220;The problem with socialism is, eventually you run out of other people&#8217;s money.&#8221; California is deciding now if they should raise taxes or lay off 19,000 school teachers. (teachers are an unfortunate but easy target of budget shortfalls) Referencing this data (some details below) California is already the 49th WORST [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/03/11/if-you-want-less-of-it-tax-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2011/03/06/note-from-rep-kaufmann-on-iowa-pre-k-debate/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/11/14/rep-jeff-kaufmann-ia-79-2010-veterans-day/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/10/24/miller-meeks-campaign-uses-augmented-reality/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/08/24/miller-meeks-aims-for-november/#comments</comments>
		<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>Church Bulletins (New Hope United Methodist)</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/08/21/church-bulletins-new-hope-united-methodist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sept 2010 Nwsltr  also check out our new FACEBOOK page &#8211; search NEW HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH on fb.]]></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>Explanation of Derivative Markets</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/06/15/explanation-of-derivative-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(posted on the internet &#8211; this is not my original writing) Your economics lesson of the day&#8230;&#8230;   Explanation of Derivative Markets: Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Hawkeye Football April 17 @ Kinnick</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/03/31/hawkeye-football-april-17-kinnick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As far as I know, the Hawks will have an open practice @ Kinnick on Saturday April 17. Coach Ferentz doesn&#8217;t like the idea of a Spring &#8220;game&#8221;, so we settle for the alternative. In some previous years it was cancelled because of work on the field, but I will post more when I know [...]]]></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>Happy 2010?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2010/01/01/happy-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m down to one bowl game yet tonight, so I thought I would blog for a while.  I&#8217;m waiting with much anticipation for the Iowa Georgia Tech game on Tuesday, and am glad Iowa plays on a night where there is only one game.  They will acquit themselves well, will have national coverage and I [...]]]></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>Hawk Mania in Iowa&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2009/10/22/hawk-mania-in-iowa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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