Terry Edward Branstad is an American politician and former diplomat. A member of the Republican Party,he served three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979 before serving as governor of Iowa from 1983 to 1999 and again from 2011 to 2017. He is the longest-serving governor in United States history. Branstad served as the United States Ambassador to China from 2017 to 2020 under President Donald Trump.
Altoona is a city in Polk County,Iowa,United States,and part of the Des Moines metropolitan area. The population was 19,565 at the 2020 census. It is home to the Adventureland amusement park and Prairie Meadows horse racing track and casino.
Chester John Culver is an American politician who served from 2007 through 2011 as the 41st governor of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party,he had previously served as the 29th Secretary of State of Iowa from 1999 to 2007. He was elected governor in the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election and ran unsuccessfully for reelection in 2010,losing to former governor Terry Branstad.
Matthew W. "Matt" McCoy is a member of the Board of Supervisors of Polk County,Iowa,representing the fifth district. A member of the Iowa Democratic Party,McCoy served in the Iowa Senate from 1997 to 2019 and the Iowa House of Representatives from 1993 to 1997. McCoy was the first openly gay member of the Iowa General Assembly.
Rod Roberts is the Iowa State Labor Commissioner. Roberts is also a former Republican gubernatorial candidate and five-term Iowa State Representative from the 51st and 80th Districts. He served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2001 to 2011 and was an assistant minority leader. He received his BA from Iowa Christian College,as did his wife.
Libby Swanson Jacobs is a former Iowa State Representative from the 60th District.
Sandra H. "Sandy" Greiner is Iowa state senator for District 45. She was the Iowa State Representative from the 89th District,first elected in 1992. She served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1993 until 2001,then served briefly in the Iowa Senate,until she decided to return to her House seat in 2003. She continued to serve in the House until her retirement in 2009.
The 2010 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday,November 2,2010,to elect the governor and lieutenant governor,to serve a four-year term beginning on January 14,2011. In Iowa,the governor and lieutenant governor are elected on the same ballot. Along with the election in Ohio,this was one of the two gubernatorial elections where the incumbent lost reelection.
Kimberly Kay Reynolds is an American politician serving since 2017 as the 43rd governor of Iowa. A member of the Republican Party,she served as the 46th lieutenant governor of Iowa from 2011 to 2017.
The Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) is a three-member public utilities commission,with beginnings in 1878. It is a quasi-judicial tribunal,which regulates services and rates of electric,natural gas,water and telecommunication providers,as well as all pipelines and transmission lines in the U.S. state of Iowa and has existed with its present name since 1986.
Erik Helland is a lawyer and a former Republican member of the Iowa House of Representatives (2008-2013). In 2023,Governor Kim Reynolds appointed him Chair of the Iowa Utilities Board.
Nick Wagner is a Republican party politician. He is an electrical engineer who served four years on the Marion,Iowa city council before his election to the Iowa House of Representatives in 2008,where he served two terms. He was a commissioner of the Iowa Utilities Board from 2013 to 2020. Since July 2020,he is Vice President of Colorado Regulatory Affairs &Policy with Black Hills Energy in Denver,Colorado.
The 2014 Iowa gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014. Republican incumbent Terry Branstad ran for reelection to a sixth overall and second consecutive four-year term. Branstad went on to win a historic sixth term as governor by defeating Democratic challenger and State Senator Jack Hatch,and on December 14,2015,he became the longest-serving governor in American history. He won 59.1% of the popular vote to Hatch's 37.3%,and carried every county in the state except Johnson,home to Iowa City and the University of Iowa.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Iowa on November 4,2014. All of Iowa's executive officers were up for election as well as a United States Senate seat,all four of Iowa's seats in the United States House of Representatives,25 (half) of the seats in the Iowa Senate,and all 100 seats in the Iowa House of Representatives. Primary elections were held on June 3,2014.
The 2018 Iowa gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018. Incumbent Republican governor Kim Reynolds ran for election to a full term,facing Democratic businessman Fred Hubbell,Libertarian Jake Porter,and independent candidate Gary Siegwarth.
Adam Gregg is an American politician who served as the 47th lieutenant governor of Iowa from 2019 to 2024 and as acting lieutenant governor from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,Gregg served as Public Defender of Iowa from 2014 to 2017. He was the Republican candidate for Attorney General of Iowa in the November 2014 elections.
The 2022 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the governor of Iowa. Incumbent Republican governor Kim Reynolds won re-election to a second full term in a landslide,defeating Democratic nominee Deidre DeJear with 58.0% of the vote.
Michael Bousselot is an American attorney,political advisor,and politician serving as a member of the Iowa Senate from the 21st District. From 2021-2023,he was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives,representing the 37th district. Bousselot has been described as having "deep personal,professional and economic ties" to Summit Agricultural Group.
The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) or Bakken pipeline is a 1,172-mile-long (1,886 km) underground pipeline in the United States that has the ability to transport up to 750,000 barrels of light sweet crude oil per day. It begins in the shale oil fields of the Bakken Formation in northwest North Dakota and continues through South Dakota and Iowa to an oil terminal near Patoka,Illinois. Together with the Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline from Patoka to Nederland,Texas,it forms the Bakken system. The pipeline transports 40 percent of the oil produced in the Bakken region.
Richard W. Lozier Jr. in Minneapolis,Minnesota,is an American infrastructure and regulation lawyer. He worked for a lobby group representing Energy Transfer Partners interests in the application for the controversial Bakken pipeline. He became a commissioner of the Iowa Utilities Board in 2017 and served until April 2023.
