2022 IA Senate race: on Principles & Values


Abby Finkenauer: Since insurrection, GOP has turned its back on democracy

Finkenauer, in a video about her announcement, lambasts Grassley and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as two people who are "so obsessed with power."

"Since the Capitol was attacked," Finkenauer says, invoking the January 6 insurrection, "they've turned their backs on democracy and on us. They made their choice. And I am making mine: I am running for the United States Senate."

Source: CNN Politics on 2022 Iowa Senate race Jul 22, 2021

Ashley Hinson: Getting started in Congress; considering run for Senate

Newly elected U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, a Republican in Iowa's 1st District, said during a December 2020 taping of Iowa Press that she had not ruled out running as for Grassley's seat if he were to step aside. "My priority right now is just getting to work. People hired me to do a job," she said. "... So I'm working hard to make sure I do my job that people sent me there to do."

Pressed to say whether she had ruled out the possibility, Hinson declined. "Well, I think there's a lot of things to consider," she said. "Like every decision I have to talk to my husband first. I've got kids to consider too. It's all part of the conversation, right, about any decision in life. And I'm not focused out two years from now, I'm focused on getting started in January."

Source: Des Moines Register on 2022 Iowa Senate race Jan 15, 2021

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Candidates and political leaders on Principles & Values:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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