Posts Tagged ‘Cedar Rapids’
Author: deanfiihr Published: August 10th, 2011
Small business owner and educator Art Staed announced today that he is running for the Iowa House of Representatives from House District 66, which encompasses northeast Cedar Rapids. Staed, a Democrat, is a former State Representative who previously represented much of the same area of Cedar Rapids.
Staed is both an educator and small business owner, and has two Masters Degrees, currently teaches secondary education for Cedar Rapids Schools at the Four Oaks Phase program and is active in the Cedar Rapids Education Association. He and his wife Susan also own and operate Coffee Talk Café near Kirkwood College. They have 4 children and 5 grandchildren.
While previously in the Iowa House, Staed served as Vice Chairman of both the Education Committee and the Economic Development Appropriations Subcommittee. He also served on the Economic Growth, Labor, and Veterans Affairs committees.
Tags: art staed, Cedar Rapids, House Distrct 66
Category Candidates 2012, Recent News |
Author: deanfiihr Published: July 12th, 2011
Daniel Lundby, 35, announced today he is running for the Iowa House in Marion, Iowa and its surrounding areas. Lundby, son of the late Senator Mary Lundby, will run as a Democrat.
“My mother believed in a common sense approach to solving problems through partisan politics. I want to bring that common sense back to the Iowa House. My mother also strongly cared about children in Iowa and wanted them to get the best education possible. Unfortunately, the needs of our young people now seem less important with the Republicans insisting on zero percent growth for local schools and education cuts to state universities. None of which my mother would approve of. Nor would she support cutting programs that protect our natural resources and our environment. She would definitely not support attempts to deny equal rights to any Iowan. Being my mother’s son, I want the chance to continue her work for a better Iowa.”
Lundby said his decision to run for the Iowa House, in the same area his mother held for almost a quarter century, is for the same reason his mother did in 1986. “She saw a need for fresh new ideas not fueled by party agendas, but through listening to the voters who elected her. It is that same attention my mother gave her voters that I want to bring back to the constituents of House District 68.”
Explaining his decision to switch parties, Lundby said, “I changed my party affiliation from Republican to Democrat because the Republican Party and the people I was supporting no longer placed the best interests of Iowa and its voters before their own party agenda.”
For example, Lundby named improving the educational system in Iowa, to offer young Iowans more options for getting good jobs in the ever-changing workplace, as one of his main reasons for running for state representative. In addition, Lundby wants to create jobs by finding better ways to recruit new small businesses to come to Iowa and assisting those businesses that are already creating jobs in Iowa, like his Grandmother Betty Hoehl’s bridal shop.
Daniel Lundby was born in Cedar Rapids and raised in Marion. His father, Michael Lundby, is a Machinist painter at Quaker Oats and has been a member of Machinist Local Union 831 for 29 years. Daniel attended St. Joseph’s Elementary school, in Marion, and graduated from Regis Catholic High School. He was active in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts and spent summers as a camp counselor. He also spent time in the summers at his grandparents’ farm in Decorah. From the age of seven, he began campaigning at his mother’s side.
Daniel received an AA from Kirkwood Community College and a BS from Iowa State University. He is currently working on a MS degree from Iowa State and is scheduled to graduate in December 2011.
Like many young Iowans, Daniel moved to New York City, for work, after receiving his BS degree but returned to Iowa to be with his mother in her last weeks of fighting cancer. Shortly after the passing of his mother, his grandmother on his father’s side also passed away. He returned to Iowa to support his father and family.
Tags: Cedar Rapids, Daniel Lumby, House District 68
Category Candidates 2012, Recent News |
Author: rachellethomas Published: September 30th, 2010
Mark Seidl
House District 37
Cedar Rapids
Contact: 319-377-9770
Mark Seidl grew up in Cedar Rapids from grade school through high school, graduating from Regis in 1977. He went away for college and law school at Creighton University in Omaha, then worked as an attorney and claims adjuster in Wisconsin. In 1990 he came home to marry his wife, Anne, a lifelong Linn County resident. They made their home first in Hiawatha, then Marion, and finally Cedar Rapids, settling in 1997. Mark Seidl grew up in Cedar Rapids from grade school through high school, graduating from Regis in 1977. He went away for college and law school at Creighton University in Omaha, then worked as an attorney and claims adjuster in Wisconsin. In 1990 he came home to marry his wife, Anne, a lifelong Linn County resident. They made their home first in Hiawatha, then Marion, and finally Cedar Rapids, settling in 1997. On the way they had a daughter, Amelia, and son, Daniel. Daniel is 15; Amelia is 18 and will cast her first vote this fall. Both attend Linn-Mar High School. Mark has been active as a soccer coach and Adventure Guides leader, and has done volunteer work for the Lin-Mar Boosters and Orchestra Department. He has served on the boards of the Alzheimer’s Association for East Central Iowa, and Green Square Meals, and as a youth minister at St. Pius X Parish.
Mark has practiced law for the past 13 years with his brother, Phill, and sister, Mary Chicchelly, in the firm of Seidl & Chicchelly (their father, Jerry, is of counsel). Mark is a member of the Iowa Bar Association, the State Bar of Wisconsin, the Iowa Association for Justice, the American Association for Justice, and has been admitted to several Federal district courts and the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals. This is his first campaign for elective office.
Tags: Cedar Rapids, HD 37, Iowa House District 37, Mark Seidl
Category Candidates 2011, Recent News |
Author: deanfiihr Published: January 7th, 2010
In the heart of the Czech Village, State Representative Kirsten Running-Marquardt of Cedar Rapids took the oath of office on Wednesday to serve the people of District 33 in the Iowa House of Representatives. The 2010 session of the Iowa Legislature opens on Monday, January 11.”I’m deeply humbled by the support and trust from the people of the Cedar Rapids. As state representative, my top priority is to help our community rebuild from the floods of 2008 and create good-paying jobs for middle class families,” said Running-Marquardt, who grew up and is raising her family in Cedar Rapids.
Running-Marquardt was sworn-in by State Senator Bob Dvorsky, who serves Linn and Johnson Counties. She was elected on November 24th in a special election to replace Dick Taylor, who resigned the post. (more…)
Tags: Cedar Rapids, Flood Recovery, Kirsten Running-Marquardt, Loebsack
Category Candidates 2011 |
Author: admin Published: July 23rd, 2009
House Democrats have supported the use of the Iowa Power Fund for a number of innovative projects building Iowa’s renewable energy infrastructure. This has included everything from wind energy development to waste disposal technology. The Cedar Rapids Gazette has an interesting story about how the Power Fund is being used to promote sustainable rebuilding in flood ravaged areas (below the fold):
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Tags: AmericCorps, Cedar Rapids, Environment, Green, Iowa, Urban Garden, Urban Gardens
Category Environment, Jobs & Economy |
