REPUBLICAN PARTY

Audubon County Supervisor (vote for 1): Heath Hansen   338*         Todd M. Nelson     213

Audubon County Attorney (Vote for 1): No candidate

Audubon County Treasurer (Vote for 1) – No candidate

Audubon County Recorder (Vote for 1) – No candidate

US Senator (Vote for 1): Jim Carlin 179  Chuck Grassley (I) 361

US Representative/District 4 (Vote for 1): Randy Feenstra    450

Governor: Kim Reynolds (I)    508

Sec. of State: Paul D. Pate (I)  424

Auditor of State: Todd Halbur   242         Mary Ann Hanusa 168

Treasurer of State: Roby Smith 373

Sec. of Agriculture: Mike Naig (I)  429

Attorney General: Brenna Bird  380

State Senate/District 6: Jason Schultz   397

State Representative/District 11: Brian Best   449

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Audubon County Treasurer: Debra M. Campbell     171

Audubon County Recorder: Miranda J. Bills     169

Audubon County Attorney: Christopher R. Swensen    167

US Senate:

Abby Finkenauer 63

Michael Franken 109

Glenn Hurst 19

US Representative/District 4: Ryan Melton  162

Governor: Diedre DeJear  181

Sec. of State: Joel Miller   114          Eric Van Lancker 33

Auditor of State: Rob Sand (I)  171

Sec. of Agriculture: John Norwood   159

Attorney General: Tom Miller (I) 179

Treasurer of State: Michael L. Fitzgerald  172

State Senate/District 9 – No candidate

State Senate/District 18 – No candidate

REPUBLICAN PARTY

Cass County Supervisor – District 2 (vote for 1)

Mark O’Brien  229

Cass County Supervisor – District 3 (Vote for 1)

John P. Hartkopf (I) 232

Wendy Richter       255*

Cass County Attorney (Vote for 1)

Robert J. Engler   452

Jay W. Mez   430

Vanessa E. Strazdas (I)   625

Cass County Treasurer (Vote for 1) – Tracey J. Marshall   1,193

Cass County Recorder (Vote for 1) – Mary Ward  1,379

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

*No candidates filed for County offices

(Red Oak, Iowa) – The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors are set to meet 8:30-a.m. Wednesday (June 8th), in their courthouse meeting room. New Business on their agenda includes accepting the resignation of Auditor Stephanie Burke. Assuming her resignation is accepted, the Board will set an appointment to fill the vacancy in the office of the Montgomery County Auditor. Burke was expected to make a comment to the media on her reason(s) for tendering her resignation, on Wednesday.

Other business during the meeting, includes opening the sealed bids from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Auction for certain property, and act on the bids accordingly. They are expected to take action also, on:

• Approving a Real Estate Lease between Montgomery County and Family Connections, Inc.
• Approve a request to abate taxes and refund the tax sale certificate holders for 300 E. Market Street, in Red Oak.

The Board’s next regular meeting is June 14th, immediately following the 2022 Primary Election Canvass. The June 8th Board of Supervisor’s meeting is public, and can be viewed via Zoom (meeting ID: 861 8514 1628)

(Harlan, Iowa) – Police in Harlan, Tuesday (today), said there were two recent arrests to report. On Monday (June 6), 32-year-old Brooke Megan Hytle, of Harlan, was arrested for Public Intoxication. And, on Saturday, 19-year-old Daija Suzanne Buttry, of Harlan, was arrested following a traffic stop. Buttry was transported to the Shelby County Jail where she was charged with possession of a controlled substance, driving while suspended, no proof of insurance, windshield requirement, fail to display license plate, no seat belt and minor in possession of alcohol.

And, Harlan Police investigated two, non-injury accidents. On Friday, vehicles driven by Grace Mallory, of Charter Oak, and Tonya Feekes, of Walnut, collided head-on, when Mallory’s 1993 Pontiac Bonneville crossed the center line of the road as it was traveling east, in the 1200 block of Chatburn Avenue, and collided with Feekes’ westbound 2016 Dodge Ram.

The other accident occurred at 19th and Chatburn in Harlan, on June 2nd. Authorities say Danny Kittrell, of Harlan, was attempting to turn left onto 19th Street.  Samantha Wahling, of Shelby, was unable to stop. Her 2001 Toyota Camry struck Kitrell’s 2016 Honda Civic, in the rear.

(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds says the Iowa National Guard’s adjutant general has briefed her about the Guard’s connection to last week’s shooting at an Ames church, as a man who’d been a member of the Guard since 2015 shot a woman to death who was a member of the same unit.

The Story County Sheriff says Johnathan Whitlach shot 22-year-old Eden Montang and another women, then shot himself to death. Montang had recently ended a relationship with Whitlach and he had been charged at the end of May with harassing her at work. Reynolds today said leaders of the Guard were aware of Whitlach’s actions.

“He was full-time and relieved of duty and so I have to be careful how much is out and what isn’t,” Reynolds said. “There were some steps that had been taken.”

Whitlach was seeing a mental health counselor, according to the governor. “But again, some people just have evil in their heart and I don’t know what we can do and it’s not necessarily a gun,” Reynolds said. “We’ve seen them use other things, especially in domestic abuse.”

Montang’s friend, 21-year-old Vivian Flores, was also shot to death outside Cornerstone Church in Ames. The two women were active in a youth ministry at the church.

(Radio Iowa) – Governor Reynolds has signed a bill into law that lifts the cap on the amount of alcohol Iowa distilleries may produce. It also lets smaller distilleries sell up to nine liters of alcohol to retail customers at their locations. Larger Iowa distilleries are already allowed to sell that amount to a retail customer. Reynolds went to the Revelton Distillery in Osceola for a ceremony to sign the bill, which deals with a wide-range of state liquor control issues.

“The bill does several things to enhance Iowa’s licensing and permitting processes for alcohol distributors. It creates Sunday sales parity for all retail license and alcohol permits and it simplifies the permitting process for non-profit organizations applying for licenses for events,” Reynolds says. “Finally, the bill – which I love — will help quickly modernize the outdated process for applying for, renewing and paying for licenses.” It changes the licensing system for producers and sellers of beer, wine and alcohol, including the fee structure.

Christy Taylor,Gov. Reynolds, Rob Taylor.(RI-photo)

Rob Taylor and his wife, Christi, own the Revelton Distillery in Osceola. He says the bill will allow native distilleries expand, as they’ve been restricted to producing 16-hundred barrels of bourbon and whiskey each year.  “Because of this bill, it allows us as a distillery….to make unlimited amounts of fine spirits and be competitive not only within our state, but within our region — and also our dream is to be competitive globally,” Taylor says. “We have the best corn in the world in Iowa and I think, because of that, we should have some of the finest spirits in the world.”

The legislation became a catch-all for several proposals. It includes new restrictions for food delivery companies like GrubHub, Uber Eats and DoorDash.

(Radio Iowa) – Des Moines police have released the name of the local woman who was shot and killed near downtown last (Monday) night. Police were called about 9:30 PM to an area along the Des Moines River near the Robert Ray Asian Garden and the Iowa Women of Achievement pedestrian bridge. Officers found the body of 21-year-old Elizabeth Arzola with a gunshot wound. She died at the scene.

A handgun was also found close-by. Investigators say it was likely a “targeted incident” and there is no danger to the public. No arrests have been made in Des Moines’ ninth homicide this year.

(Sioux City, Iowa) – A collision northeast of Sioux City, Tuesday morning, resulting in one person dead and two others injured. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 1998 Honda Civic driven by 22-year-old Uzael Abraham, of Sioux City, was traveling south on Highway 75 near C-70, at around 5:45-a.m., when the vehicle was struck from behind. The other vehicle was a 2015 Nissan Sentra, driven by 30-year-old David Diaz, of Sioux City.

Following the collision, the Honda spun around and came to rest in the median. A passenger in the car, 45-year-old Ermiohne Joswa, of Sioux City, died at the scene. Uzeal Abraham suffered critical injuries and was transported by Hinton Fire/EMS to Mercy Hospital, in Sioux City.

David Diaz sustained minor injuries in the crash and was also transported to Mercy in Sioux City. The accident remains under investigation.