Due to the volume of data entry required before we can get security properly setup for Central Committee members, it will be Monday (Feb before we will have secured access available for Central Committee members on this web site.  We apologize for the delay.

Saturday, February 6, at 7:00 PM, it’s the 99th Birthday of Ronald Reagan of Fort Des Moines, who earned his commission here in 1937. In honor of President Ronald Reagan’s 99th birthday, the Fort Des Moines Museum will feature two of his early war movies, featuring Rear Gunner (20 min.) and For God and Country (40 min.) with a short presentation about his life at Fort Des Moines. Tickets are $5 per person. For more information please visit the Fort Des Moines website at www.fortdesmoines.org or call the museum during regular business hours at 515-282-8060.

The Museum is at 75 East Army Post Road in Des Moines.  See the map below.

As we have reached the end of the Central Committee term for 2008-2010, we will be making security changes as follows:

• All 2008-2010 Central Committee members access to secured site areas will be removed effective immediately.
• All 2010-2012 Central Committee members who have existing accounts on the site will be re-added by the end of the week (Jan 30).  We apologize for any inconvenience this may create.
• Executive Committee members, Polk GOP Committee Chairs and Officers will not have their access impacted.

If you are an incoming Central Committee member who does not have an account, please proceed with registering on the site at this link.  We will get your access added by Jan 30.

Polk County GOP had a Caucus Temporary Chair Training session scheduled for tonight at 5:30… that session is cancelled.  There are two sessions scheduled for next week (Tuesday Jan 12 at 7:00 PM and Saturday Jan 16 at 10:00 AM).  Another session may yet be scheduled as well, but if you can attend one of next week’s sessions, please do.  Look for updates here or see the Polk County GOP Calendar here.

Just a reminder that there are a number of key events occuring this weekend… you can go to our calendar at this link for more information.

The biggest event is the Republican Party of Iowa “Leadership For Iowa”, which will be held the the Iowa State Fairgrounds starting at 5:00 PM.  Tickets are $25.  Tim Pawlenty, Governor of Minnesota, will be the featured guest.  More information at www.iowagop.org.  All of the candidates for Governor plan to attend, and Terry Branstad will be holding an open house and rally at his new headquarters (3590 109th Street, Urbandale) at 4:00.

There are hundreds of activists expected at this event.  We hope to see you there!!!

State Chairman Matt Strawn outlines Iowa GOP education reform measures.

We performed some maintenance on the web site over the weekend, and some of you may have had issues accessing the web site, especially Sunday.  We did not expect any impact, but only discovered after completing the work that some people were affected.

We apologize for the inconvenience.