As always, post a comment if you know of any important event I have left out.
Democratic candidates, send me your public schedules (desmoinesdem AT yahoo.com) so I can include your events on my calendar.
The Iowa State Fair runs through Sunday. Admission is half-price on the last day. We were there yesterday, and my kids really liked the dog frisbee-catching and stunt show, the Animal Learning Center (where you can see animals with very young babies), the “Little Hands on the Farm” demonstration/play area, and the butterfly exhibit, which I think is new to the fair.
Thursday, August 14:
From the Obama campaign:
Dana Singiser, the campaign’s Senior Adviser for the Women’s Vote, will campaign for Senator Obama in Iowa on Thursday, August 14th and Friday, August 15th, 2008. On Thursday, Singiser will hold a Women’s Coffee in Sioux City and a Women for Obama event in Council Bluffs. On Friday, she will hold a Women’s Coffee in Clive and a Women’s Lunch in Boone. Singiser will discuss Senator Obama’s plan to provide economic security for America’s working women.
Singiser serves as Senior Adviser to the Obama for America where she advises Senator Obama on the national political landscape for women and leads the campaign’s efforts to reach women voters across the country. Most recently, she served as Director of Women’s Outreach for the Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign.
The details of the events are:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 14TH, 2008
1:00 PM CDT
Women’s Coffee with Dana Singiser
Sioux City Art Center
255 Nebraska St
Sioux City, Iowa7:00 PM CDT
Women for Obama event with Dana Singiser
Council Bluffs Library
400 Willow Ave
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Also, the Obama campaign will continue its series of “rural roundtable discussions” across Iowa to highlight Senator Obama’s plan to strengthen rural communities and support rural economic development:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 14TH, 2008
Atlantic
6:15 PM CDT
Obama Iowa Campaign for Change Rural Roundtable Discussion with Senator Ben Nelson
Farmer’s Kitchen
319 Walnut Street
Atlantic, Iowa
At 3:30 pm, Senator Nelson will speak on Senator Obama’s behalf at the Des Moines Register’s Soap Box at the Iowa State Fair.
Becky Greenwald, candidate for Congress, will appear at the Wing Ding event at the Surf Ballroom, 460 North Shore Drive in Clear Lake. The Wing Ding starts at 5:00 pm and is a Democratic fundraiser for three northern Iowa counties, Cerro Gordo, Winnebago and Hancock. If you hear Becky’s speech, please post a diary here afterwards to let us know how the event went.
Congressman Leonard Boswell, who represents Iowa’s third district, will be speaking at the Des Moines Register’s Soap Box (outside the Register’s Service Center on the Grand Concourse) at 1:30 pm. As part of this new Iowa State Fair tradition, the Congressman will be speaking on the challenges facing our country in these uncertain times and about his work to put us back on the road to peace and prosperity.
Friday, August 15:
The Obama campaign’s Senior Adviser for the Women’s Vote is holding two more events in Iowa:
10:00 AM CDT
Women’s Coffee with Dana Singiser
Home of Sue Simons
1433 NW 105th St.
Clive, Iowa12:30 PM CDT
Women’s Lunch with Dana Singiser
Home of Becky Lyon
1416 SE Linn St.
Boone, Iowa
Also, Senator Tom Harkin is holding an Obama campaign “rural roundtable” event at 4:00 pm in Carroll at Depot Plaza, 407 W 5th St.
Dr. Steven and Jill Kraus will be hosting a reception at their home for Tom Harkin in Carroll on Friday at 5:30 PM. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be provided and valet parking is available. For the full details on this event, please click here.
Also on Friday, Congressman Steve King is holding two town-hall meetings. Bring along your camera to capitalize on any “macaca moments”:
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
King to host Sioux Center Town Hall Meeting
American State Bank – enter through West entrance (town hall meeting is downstairs)
525 North Main Avenue
Sioux Center, Iowa4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
King to host Sioux City Town Hall Meeting
Main Library 529 Pierce St. – Gleeson Room
Sioux City, Iowa
Saturday, August 16:
Rob Hubler will be at AtlanticFest. Contact his campaign HQ at (712) 352-2077 for more details.
Senator Harkin and Mayor Jerry Sullivan, candidate for Statehouse (HD-59), will attend a fundraiser for Sullivan’s campaign from 3:00 to 4:30 pm at the Great Midwestern Café, 1250 NW 128th St in Clive. Catering provided by Great Midwestern Café. Suggested donation $50 (host levels higher). Checks can be made payable to Sullivan for State Representative, 7018 Franklin Ave, Windsor Heights, IA 50322. RSVP to Mike at mmccall@iowademocrats.org or call (614) 561-9117.
1000 Friends of Iowa is holding its 10th anniversary celebration and annual meeting at the Griffieon family farm near Ankeny. The event starts at 9:00 am and runs all day. Click here to register for the meeting or find more details about the event, including a schedule and directions to the farm. Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey will be the keynote speaker. Registration costs $30, and that includes an “Iowa grown lunch.” Other events of the day include:
Presentation – Connie Mutel author of The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa Mutel will describe her new book, which offers an opportunity to understand, reconnect with, and nurture Iowa’s precious natural world. She’ll also discuss the functions (such as flood-resistance) provided by healthy native communities, and offer a challenge to restore these functions through reintegrating nature into Iowa’s working landscape. 1:30 Presentation – Erv Klaas Dr. Klaas will discuss how reserving valuable cropland for growing corn and soybeans creates difficult challenges to livestock owners who use riparian zones for pasture. He will use the Griffieon pasture to illustrate problems livestock owners face, the technique LaVon is using to remedy the problem and how improvements to water quality and to our streams depends on a total watershed approach. 2:00 Tour de Sprawl – Guides: LaVon Griffieon & Stephanie Weisenbach In the past decade development has encroached upon the farmland next to the Griffieon’s farm. We will tour the neighborhood by bus to see the changes made upon some of the world’s most prime soils.
I am involved with 1000 Friends of Iowa and will attend this meeting, but not in my capacity as desmoinesdem, so don’t expect any talk about partisan politics!
Sunday, August 17:
The Hubler campaign is organizing canvassing all over the fifth district:
Sunday marks our first large door-to-door operation and we need your help to talk to friends and neighbors about Rob’s vision for the future. Nothing is more effective than having a neighbor drop-by their door with a piece of literature about Rob. King will be pushing the same tired messages- but with your help we can show Iowa that there is a clear choice in this election and that Rob Hubler is the candidate who will best represent us in Washington; but we can’t win without your help!
Please contact Beth at our Council Bluffs office (712) 352-2077 or email her at beth@hublercongress.com to meet up with supporters near you. Don’t forget to bring two friends to join you!We will be having canvass parties in the following towns:
Council Bluffs Creston
Clarinda Sioux City
Spencer Spirit Lake
Onawa Storm Lake
Le Mars Lamoni
CarrollIf you don’t see your town listed, we will be coming your way soon; contact us to help set up a joint canvass in your area.