Democratic and Republican caucuses will be held in counties across Iowa on Saturday January 23, 2010 at 1:00pm.

Basically three things happen at your local precinct caucus:
(1.) Election of two Party Committeemen/women to help in their precinct for the next two years;
(2.) Election of Delegates to your county convention held 6Mar10. [Delegates at the county convention, in turn, elect Delegates to Districts 2nd,3rd,5th (held 24April) and Districts 1,4 (held 1May) and the state convention held 26June10];
(3.) Draft a precinct platform which will be consolidated with the other precincts in your county and voted upon (after debate) at your county convention.

Here are links to the respective parties with the information you will need:

Republican Party of Iowa Caucus Locations: http://www.sos.state.ia.us/elections/VoterReg/PollingPlace/search.aspx

Edit: FIND YOUR PRECINCT # BY FOLLOWING THE LINK ABOVE, THEN LOOK UP THE LOCATION USING THIS LIST!

Republican Party Info: http://www.iowagop.org/site/c.ruIWKbMYIvF/b.5616519/k.BEFC/Home.htm

Democrat Party of Iowa Caucus Locations: http://iowademocrats.org/caucus/
Democrat Party Platform: http://iowademocrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/platform.pdf

(bumped up by Roman)

In February the NRA is hosting a series of free workshops throughout Iowa to “discuss how you can take on an even more active role in your community in our fight to advance and protect our freedoms in this very busy year! We will provide you with the materials and strategies needed to educate, empower, and engage your fellow gun owners as well.”
One of these workshops will be held in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, February 6th, from 10:30-Noon at the Clarion Hotel and Convention Center. If anyone is interested in going, please let me know at aelges@aol.com.
http://www.nraila.org/workshops/Register.aspx?ID=CedarRapids10

The election is Tuesday, January 19th. Find your polling place here.

Does anybody have any insight into this race? One of three bullet points on a mailing from Lori Cardella is “exercising fiscal prudence is all aspects of government,” which certainly *sounds* good.

Anybody?

(bumped up by Admin)

Thursday, Dec. 10, 6:30 pm
Northwestern Rm., 3rd floor, IMU

Hosted by the University of Iowa Anti-War committee.

Please join us for the last Austrian Economics meeting of the semester, tonight at 6 pm in the Kirkwood room (257) of the IMU.

Our main objective will be to make room reservations for the following semester and discuss the Spring course.

Iowa Solutions Debate: Education Reform
Wednesday, December 9th, 6:00pm at Cedar Rapids Crowne Plaza Hotel

Former Speaker of the House Chris Rants, a gubernatorial candidate, and former Des Moines School Board member Jonathan R. Narcisse, from “An Iowa Worth Fighting For.” have announced a six city “Iowa Solution Oriented Debate Series”.

Campaign for Liberty meeting
Wednesday, December 9th, 8:00pm at Iowa Room (335) Iowa Memorial Union, Iowa City, IA

Students for Austrian Economics 6pm in the Kirkwood room on the IMU’s 2nd floor.

Show and tell. Bring an interesting article, essay or video and discuss it with the group.

Johnson County Campaign for Liberty – Wednesday November 18th 8pm
Northwestern Room (345)

Agenda:

I. Review of past initiatives and mission statement:

“Our mission is to promote and defend the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a noninterventionist foreign policy, by means of educational and political activity.”

II. Christmas Gift Bag Project
a. Design and inputs
b. Variety
c. Distribution
d. Budget

III. Campaign for Liberty Candidates Forum
a. Congressional
b. Gubernatorial

IV. Austrian Economics
a. Weekly Group
b. Guest Lecture
c. Class Spring 2010

V. Fluoride Action Campaign
a. Public Presentation
b. City Council

VI. Future of Liberty Activism on UI Campus
a. Young Americans for Liberty
b. PNACitizen – spring movie series?
c. Other groups

VII. Conclude
a. Next meeting

We meet in the Kirkwood Room on the 2nd floor of the IMU.

We’ll be discussing “The Decline and Fall of Gorbachev and the Soviet State” by Yuri Maltsev, available here.