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The suspense is over. Iowa Republicans have chosen a candidate in Iowa’s third congressional district.
Even the man who won the nomination admits he was stunned by the turn of events today (Saturday). “Anything can happen,” Young told reporters. “It’s exhilarating. There’s so many different emotions moving inside me, but right now I’m actually looking towards November and figuring out where we go from here.” Over 500 delegates gathered Saturday morning for the special nominating convention and about five hours later Young had secured the spot on November’s ballot.
“Somebody asked me right before I got up on stage: “David, is this one of your magic tricks again?'” Young said, a reference to one of his campaign commercials. “I said: ‘No, but I have one trick left — and that’s to make Staci Appel disappear in November.'” Appel is the Democratic Party’s nominee for seat now held by Republican Tom Latham, who is not seeking reelection. The third district delegates had to make the choice because none of the six candidates who ran in the G-O-P Primary secured 35 percent of the votes on June 3rd. Brad Zaun, a state senator, finished first in the primary voting and Zaun repeatedly asked delegates to take that into consideration.
“I’m a little bit disappointed,” Zaun said after the loss, “but I’m going to be behind David Young 110 percent and I’ll do anything I can to help him.” It took five rounds of voting, with all six primary candidates in the mix at the start, but it wound down to a contest between Zaun and Young, who had placed fifth in the primary. On Saturday, in that last round of vote, a tie vote among the delegates in Polk County, Zaun’s home base, was likely the difference maker. “But, hey listen: we move on,” Zaun said. Two other key moments on Saturday helped Young surge past Zaun. One came when Matt Schultz, Iowa’s current secretary of state, was forced out of the competition by his last place finish in the third round of voting.
“I’m asking all of you who supported me to get behind David because we need someone who’s conservative and can win — and I trust David Young,” Schultz said, “so join me in trusting him.” The other involved Robert Cramer, the construction company executive who finished second in the June 3rd Primary. Cramer took himself out of contention right before the third round of voting and Young spoke next. “When I was 15, my parents moved the family from Van Meter to Johnston and across the street and two doors down was this tall, lanky blonde kid named Robert Cramer and he became my best friend,” Young said. “And we were in track together, basketball, choir, hung out at the swimming pool and we went to church together and he is a man of faith and he helped me grow in my faith and, Robert, I just want to thank you. I love you, brother.”
Many delegates stayed after the voting and the decision-making were over to congratulate Young. “Talk about coming from behind,” one delegate told Young. “Congratulations. Well done.” Young replied: “Anything can happen in politics. It’s a game that moves as you play.” Young resigned from his job as Senator Chuck Grassley’s chief of staff over a year ago to run for the U.S. Senate after Democrat Tom Harkin announce he wouldn’t run for reelection, but Young switched his sights to the third congressional district after Republican Congressman Tom Latham announced this past December that he wouldn’t seek reelection in 2014.
Grassley issued a written statement Saturday night saying Young “has the ability to appeal to a cross section of residents in the third district. Grassley also pledged to “do everything he can to help” Young get elected to congress. Democrat Staci Appel’s campaign sent out a fundraising email shortly after Young secured the nomination, calling Young a “Tea Party extremist.” Democrats also point to 2012 voting in the third district which saw President Obama win that 16-county section of the state.
(Radio Iowa)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Documents in an unemployment benefits case show that a Council Bluffs hospital administrator resigned his post last year after his superiors refused to tell patients that surgical instruments used on them hadn’t been properly sterilized. The Des Moines Register reports that Robert Owen Burgin was a registered nurse and the infection-control specialist for Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs. State records show he resigned April 12, 2013, after making several attempts to get permission to tell two patients they were at risk of infection from blood-borne pathogens.
Documents say a supervisor threatened his job when he persisted. The matter became public when Burgin filed for unemployment benefits and the hospital challenged his claim. A judge has ruled for Burgin, saying Burgin resigned for good cause.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for parts of Nebraska and Iowa along the Missouri River, and storms that dumped nearly 7 inches of rain on parts of Omaha haven’t helped. The National Weather Service says 6.83 inches of rain fell at the Millard Airport in Omaha from Friday night to about 7 a.m. Saturday — and more could be on the way.
The storms flooded low-lying Omaha streets and forced a College World Series game between Mississippi and Virginia to be postponed. The weather service says there is a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms for the area on Sunday and a 50 percent chance on Monday.
The Flood Warning continues until 1-p.m. Sunday for the Missouri River….near Blair, NE., affecting Harrison County in Iowa…and near Omaha, affecting Pottawattamie County.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Northwestern Iowa officials are looking for a prisoner who failed to return to a work release facility in Sioux City. Officials say 30-year-old Caleb Robert Babb was placed on escape status after failing to return to the facility Friday after working his job.
Babb, who was nine years into a 10-year sentence for second-degree robbery, had been transferred to work release on May 29. Officials are asking anyone with information on Babb’s whereabouts to report it to the Sioux City Police Department or Woodbury County Sheriff’s Department.
GLIDDEN, Iowa (AP) — A criminal complaint says DNA evidence led to the arrest of a man suspected in death of a mother and her son in western Iowa. Fifty-three-year-old Thomas Henderson, of Lake City, was arrested Thursday and charged Friday with murder. He is accused of killing 48-year-old Tammie Lee Devore and her 30-year-old son, Karl Allen Devore. Their bodies were found in their Glidden mobile home on May 18.
The Des Moines Register reports that investigators found a knife blade, a black knife handle and a knife labeled “Yoshiblade” at the crime scene. Investigators say DNA found on the knife and handle belonged to Henderson. Henderson is being held without bond at the Carroll County Jail.
An Adams County man was arrested early this (Saturday) morning after authorities investigated a pickup truck stuck in a corn field north of the Prescott School. Sheriff’s officials say 22-year old Ansley Matthew Page, of Corning, was charged with Public Intoxication. Page was being held in the Adams County Jail on $300 bond.
Authorities say they received a call at around 3:30-a.m. about a white pickup truck stuck in a field. An area resident saw Page leave the truck and walk through the field, get in a car and leave. He later reported to officials that his truck was taken from the bar in Prescott.
Strong storms that moved from Nebraska into western and southwest Iowa Friday night resulted in street flooding in Omaha, reports of dime-to quarter-sized hail, potentially damaging winds, and the postponement of a College World Series game. A Flash Flood Warning that was issued just after midnight for northwestern Mills and south central Pottawattamie County, was allowed to expire at 6:30-a.m. Officials say the heavy rain which prompted the warning has ended, and flooding in those areas is no longer expected to pose a threat.
Here in Atlantic, we received just over one-inch of rain at the KJAN studios on the north side of town. A little further into town, 1.2-inches was reported. The storms moved into Harrison and Shelby Counties a little at around 6-p.m., Friday, dumping quarter-sized hail and winds of up to 45 miles per hour near Little Sioux. Less than an hour later, those winds had increased to over 55-miles per hour.
At around 8-p.m., dime-sized hail was reported near Mondamin, in Harrison County. A few minutes later, dime-to-quarter size hail was reported by a spotter in Missouri Valley. At about that same time, spotters at the Persia Fire station recorded a 60-mile per hour gust of wind. And, at around 8:15-p.m., the Harlan Airport’s automated weather observation system recorded a wind gust of up to 58-miles per hour.
There were no immediate reports of damage associated with the wind and hail events. Today’s forecast calls for the possibility of additional thunderstorm activity later this afternoon and tonight. The storms will be capable of producing heavy rainfall, damaging winds and large hail. Additional periods of thunderstorms are possible Sunday through next Friday, severe weather and heavy rain are possible as well. Information with regard to the timing and location of these storms will unfold as the week progresses.
The final results of the June 3rd Primary in the Crawford County Board of Supervisors race came down to just one vote. The Omaha World-Herald reports a recount has verified Steve Ulmer won the race. Ulmer, of Arion, appeared to have won on election night with a one-vote lead over incumbent Jerry Butler, of Kiron, but two provisional ballots resulted in a tie at 541-votes apiece.
The tie was broken last week by a drawing of lots, as required by state law. Ulmer won, but Butler requested a recount, which determined Butler received one vote fewer than originally recorded, resulting in a 541-540 win for Ulmer.
Ulmer, Kyle Schultz, of Charter Oak, and incumbent Eric Skoog, of Denison, will be on the ballot in November’s General Election, for the three Board of Supervisors seats.