Precinct caucuses for all Clarke County precincts except Murray will be held at Clarke Elementary School, 420 E Jefferson St. in Osceola.  Murray precinct caucus will be at Murray High School, 216 Sherman in Murray.  Registration starts at 6pm, and the caucuses start at 7pm.  Call Ed White (641-414-1721) or Terry Jacobsen (641-342-4834) if you…

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7-county Democratic dinner, auction, & candidate forum Moravia, Methodist Church Fellowship Hall Pre-event coffee with candidates at 4pm. Free-will donation dinner starts at 5pm. Candidate speeches and auction start at 5:30pm.  

Come for free lunch and a chance to question our state legislators Amy Sinclair and Joel Fry about their recent and pending choices.  Other Clarke County Democrats will be attending: we have questions and you probably do, too.

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Greetings! It’s a great honor to run for the Iowa House of Representatives from District 27. My education and experience enable me to be able to serve you and Iowa. I graduated Lamoni High in 1975 and went on to earn a degree at Graceland University (79) in economics, business administration, and history. I hired…

There are some interesting down-ballot contests going on in Clarke County, but also some positions that lack any candidates at all.   Cruising around the county, one can see not only yard signs for Democrats and Republicans in the same yard, but even yard signs for opposing candidates for the same position standing next to each…

The candidates may have learned as much as the voters who attended the stops on Saturday’s Candidate Convoy through the farther reaches of Clarke County. Conversations ranged from confusion over the borders of the reconfigured Congressional districts to the price per acre of land in 1878 ($5.00) and 1945 ($17.50), while travelling from one to…

Candidate Convoy Saturday October 8. Come have coffee and cookies and meet with candidates and/or representatives on behalf of Dave Loebsack, Rich Higdon, Janice White, Rob Kovacevich, and Marvin McCann. Feel free to joint the caravan as they enjoy the fall foliage traveling Clarke County from site to site. Schedule: 10:00am: Osceola and Ward Townships,…