Statewide Iowa — The Sioux County native running for the Senate seat currently held by Chuck Grassley has filed more than 64-hundred signatures on nominating petitions in his bid for the Iowa Democratic Party’s U.S. Senate nomination.
Retired Admiral Mike Franken says he could subtract all the signatures collected in Polk County, Iowa’s most urban county, and still have enough to qualify for the primary ballot. And that, he says, is by design.
Former Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer of Cedar Rapids, Dr. Glenn Hurst of Minden and Bob Krause of Burlington have also said they’re running for a chance to challenge Republican Chuck Grassley’s bid for an eighth term in the U.S. Senate. Last Friday, Grassley emphasized that he will have the most seniority of anyone in the senate if he’s reelected this fall. Franken suggests voters should pay attention to policies rather than tenure.
Franken’s campaign website is being revamped to include “more substance,” according to Franken, who recently hired a new campaign manager. Franken told reporters he is exceedingly happy with the changes.
Franken served 36 years in the military. He ran for the U.S. Senate in 2020 and finished second in the Democratic Primary.
In other 2022 campaign news, Republican Governor Kim Reynolds kicked off her bid for another term Wednesday night at a campaign rally on the state fairgrounds. The Des Moines Register is reporting businessman Fred Hubbell, who ran against Reynolds four years ago, has endorsed Deidre DeJear, the Democratic Party’s leading gubernatorial candidate this year.
