by Luke Martz | Jun 30, 2021 | Governor, State Government, State Politics
After a decade of legal fights and millions of taxpayer dollars funding court battles, the Iowa Supreme Court finds a lack of evidence of Branstad discriminating against former Workers Comp Commissioner Chris Godfrey and has thrown out the Godfrey lawsuit. A district...
by Luke Martz | Jun 3, 2021 | Governor, Opinion, Party Politics
Today, Rob Sand proved his critics right: he really is just a self-promoting hack. Or he’s incredibly incompetent. via GIPHY Or both? Yeah, definitely both. This morning, the State Auditor issued a “special investigation” claiming that Gov. Reynolds broke Iowa’s...
by Luke Martz | Mar 17, 2021 | Opinion
Rita Hart’s decision to skip Iowa’s courts and ask Pelosi and the House Democrats to reverse the second district’s certified election results is causing fits for Iowa Democrats–and no more so than Rob Sand. Having voted to certify Mariannette Miller-Meeks as...
by Luke Martz | Dec 29, 2020 | Campaigns, Congress, Featured, Opinion, State Politics
What a year. When Iowa Field Report launched in January, we, like countless others, could have never have imagined the events that lay ahead. Looking back at 2020, a lot happened. First, remember the Iowa Caucus? Yeah, that was this year. So was the battle between...
by Luke Martz | Dec 16, 2020 | Governor, State Government
State auditor Rob Sand is continuing his strategy of criticizing everything Governor Reynolds has done during the pandemic, this time saying that providing federal CARES Act dollars to fund law enforcement during the pandemic is not “the best way,” even if it’s...
