Tuesday, October 2, 2012
The who, what, when and where to watch in Cedar Falls
Tonight’s presidential debate is the first beween Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Cedar Falls Patch will be holding a live chat on the site beginning at 7:45 p.m. Here’s what you need to know: Who: President Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Jim Lehrer of NewsHour on PBS will moderate the debate What: The first presidential debate When: Tonight, 8 p.m. Where: University of Denver. The debate will be televised by the networks and news cable stations. In the Cedar Valley, Obama supporters can attend a viewing party at El Patron, 301 E. Fourth St., Waterloo. University of Northern Iowa students for Obama will gather to watch the debate at the Cedar Falls headquarters, 4302 University Ave. There will also be a number of house …
Monday, September 3, 2012
The grand opening celebration featured speeches by local Republicans running for office, including Iowa's first district Congressional candidate Ben Lange.
Friday, August 31, 2012
The grand opening celebration featured speeches by local Republicans running for office, including Iowa's first district Congressional candidate Ben Lange.
With just over two months to go until Election Day, local Republicans are gearing up and hitting the phones and the pavement. About 50 gathered Wednesday to hear speeches and sign up to volunteer at the grand opening of the Cedar Falls Republican Victory Office, a campaign headquarters equipped with a phone bank and piles of yard signs. The Victory Office, 4807 University Ave., Suite 103, was opened to support local Republican candidates at all levels, from presidential hopeful Mitt Romney all the way down to the local county supervisor race. Several of those candidates spoke at the grand opening celebration. They said they'd been out pounding the pavement, some with goals of knocking on every door in their constituency. They called on …
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Black Hawk County counted nine extra votes for Rick Santorum on Caucus night, a mistake local GOP party leaders corrected before the certified election results were released Thursday morning.
With missing precincts and a swap of first- and second-place finishers as the Iowa Republican Party announced certified Caucus election results this morning, local GOP organizers said the state's largest Caucus site wasn't immune to problems. Black Hawk County Republican chairman Mac McDonald said one precinct reported 11 votes instead of two votes for former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a mistake that was caught as county leaders reviewed vote tallies after the election night results were released. The mistake came because a volunteer precinct secretary marked two ticks next to Santorum's name instead of the numeral "2." The two ticks were reported as eleven when the results were sent into state GOP headquarters. McDonald said the …
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
3,642 people cast their ballots in Black Hawk County, which Ron Paul won by just 35 votes. Here are the results, by precinct, in Cedar Falls, as reported on iowagop.org.
Republicans from across Black Hawk County gathered in the UNI-Dome for Iowa's largest Caucus last night. Statewide, Mitt Romney won in a photo-finish, just eight votes ahead of Rick Santorum. Black Hawk County had a photo finish of it's own, with Ron Paul edging out Romney by 35 votes. Michele Bachmann, who finished behind everyone but Jon Huntsman, dropped out of the race this morning. Waterloo, as Bachmann stated emphatically and repeatedly in visits to the area, is her hometown. But despite a last minute pitch to voters at the Dome just before the Caucus started, local voters had little love for the Minnesota Congresswoman. As reported on iowagop.org, 3,642 people cast their ballots in Black Hawk County. Paul got 870 votes, Romney 835…
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Candidates Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich made stops at the UNI-Dome in a last effort to persuade Iowa voters and organizers estimated at least 4000 attended the event, which went much more smoothly than the 2008 Black Hawk County Caucus.
Ron Paul won the state’s largest Republican Caucus, after several thousand Black Hawk County Republicans cast their vote Tuesday at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. As of 10 p.m., Paul had 24 percent of the county's voters with 98 percent of precincts reporting. He was closely followed by Mitt Romney with 23 percent and Rick Santorum with 21 percent. Newt Gingrich got 16 percent. Gingrich and Michele Bachmann, along with a slew of candidate surrogates, addressed the crowds before the Caucus began just after 7 p.m., making last minute pitches for their struggling candidacies. "I think people want to know who's the true core conservative in this race," Bachmann told Caucus goers. "We need to have someone who is in the image and likeness of a …
After months of campaigning, hundreds of candidate stops and way too many political commercials, the Iowa caucuses -- finally -- have begun. Check back with Patch for live results as they come in.
At the UNI-Dome, at least a thousand people had entered by 7 p.m., and more were streaming in to the Republican caucuses in Black Hawk County. Organizers postponed the start time because people were still checking in. The check-in lines were long but moving smoothly, with everyone saying it was much better than four years ago when the Republican caucuses were at Central Middle School in Waterloo. In 2008, 3,000 people voted but another 1,000 were turned away, according to Black Hawk County Republicans organizers. Jen Reisetter, 36, of Cedar Falls, brought her two children, Jillian, 4, and Jentry, 1. "We just feel we want our kids to understand this is great responsibility not to take it lightly. We feel if they see us do it from a young …
Greg Tagtow
1:00 pm on Friday, August 31, 2012
Good write up Alison. It was good to speak with you at the event. more ›