Perry-area Democrats gathered Wednesday evening at the Hotel Pattee for a fundraising and morale-raising event that featured two of the Iowa party’s hopefuls: State Auditor Rob Sand of Des Moines and State Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott of Windsor Heights.
Sand is now the only Democrat holding statewide elected office across the Republican-dominated Iowa government, and Trone Garriott was elected to the newly created Iowa Senate District 14 by defeating former Senate President Jake Chapman of Adel.
About 150 partisans filled the Spring Valley Ballroom of the Hotel Pattee to hear the politicians deliver brief remarks and field questions. Both Sand and Trone Garriott seemed pleased to note the results of Tuesday’s special election in Warren County, where voters elected Deputy Auditor Kimberley Sheets to the auditor’s post in a landslide, ousting Republican David Whipple, an election-denying Trumpling recently appointed by his fellow Republicans on the Warren County Board of Supervisors.
Tom Walton, chair of the Dallas County Democrats, welcomed the audience and introduced the speakers. The event, which attracted 21 sponsors, was organized by a committee of Dallas County Democrats, composed of Ann Bublitz, Diane Leonard, Monica Peitz and Cheri Tice Scheib.
Wonderful evening. Iowa is lucky to have two such intelligent and hardworking people in their corner.
I really hope this is the opinion section. You can’t have people working at a paper insulting half the population. There is no reason for name calling and using terms like election denier to stigmatize people. It’s well within anyone’s rights to question the election. Basically, this was a disgusting display of political bias over truth.
Yes, it’s well within anyone’s rights to “question the election” just as it is well within anyone’s rights to deny human-caused climate change or to deny the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccinations. Asserting the earth is flat is well within your rights. At the same time, anyone who claims that a news source, such as ThePerryNews.com, is being objective, fair and impartial only when it gives equal time to such fringe views or treats them as having equally valid logical and scientific bases as do the courts, for instance, which deemed all the election complaints to be unfounded — such a person misunderstands the role of a news organization.
I was there and can honestly say this article is 100 percent factual. No one was misquoted. No false or questionable information was presented. That it was a pep rally for the local Democrats was the whole idea by the event organizers, and the title banner accurately states that. I repeat: there were no inaccuracies or misquotes in this article.
It seems to me “election denier” is the mildest, kindest way to describe folks who, uh, denied the election. What do you want us to call you? Fools?
And you’re not half the population. You’re just loud.