Attendance on Thursday, June 15th was as follows:
Cedar Wood (1)
DMEA (4)
East Central (4)
Geode (2)
Great River (2)
Hawkeye (3)
JDC (2)
Lincolnway (1)
Mississippi Bend (1)
Mid-Iowa (2)
NEIEU (2)
Unit 9 (2)
Polk Suburban (3)
South Central (1)
Siouxland (4)
Southwest (3)
Unit 10 (1)
Unit 2 (3)
Northern Pride (0)
On Thursday, all 100 House races and 25 Senate races were reviewed. Action was taken on recommendations of the local PAC interview teams, as well as on recommending in the 1st Congressional District Bruce Braley as the candidate to support.
Over the dinner hour PAC members selected a representative from each of the
10 regional ISEA office + DMEA to be a part of a "NEA-PAC Fundraising Committee". Vice President Chris Bern is heading up the committee in which they brainstormed ideas in how to raise awareness and raise contribution levels of ISEA members for the NEA Fund for Children and Public Education. This group will gather again at Summer Conference and assist in the fundraising effort there. Vice President Bern will report to the Executive Board while in Storm Lake on their initial work.Friday morning, June 16th
one could tell there was excitement in the air as folks gathered for the interviews of the two candidates for Governor. Pictured (at left) is Lowell Dauenbaugh, Assistant Executive Director and Gary Anhalt (on right) ISEA Executive Board member from Cedar Wood.
Also in attendance on Friday morning was Associate Executive Director, John Hanrahan (on left) visiting with retired member Tom Wolfe (on right) from Great River UniServ Unit.
Hard-working members of the ISEA-PAC Central Committee pictured here are (from left to right) Roberta Rosheim, Maquoketa; Bill Hardisty, retired/ AHST; and Jean Seeland, Waterloo.
Promptly at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, the first interview was underway with Secretary of State Chet Culver (pictured at right). Each interview lasted approximately 60 minutes with all questions coming from me. An interview team made up of 6 Republican and 6 Democratic ISEA members were the folks that as a group discussed candidate responses and brought forward the eventual recommendation to the larger body.
At 10:00 a.m. Iowa 1st District Congressman Jim Nussle's (pictured at left) interview was underway. We are grateful that both candidates agreed to our interview! The interview team met for nearly an hour and had many positive things to share about both candidates.
The interview team brought back the recommendation of support of Secretary of State Chet Culver as our choice for Iowa's next Governor. In the next step of our process, the ISEA-PAC Central Committee voted to concur. The final action taken was for the ISEA Executive Board and they voted unanimously to concur with the PAC Central Committee's recommendation.
ISEA Executive Board members present were:
Rhonda Anderson-ESP Chair
Gary Anhalt-Cedar Wood
Mike Beranek-Polk Suburban
Chris Bern-Vice President
Barb Cunningham-Retired Chair
J. Fink (alternate)-Unit 9
Michael Hall-Higher Ed Chair
Kathy Haltmeyer-Mississippi Bend
Sally Hansen-Mid Iowa
Rob Hirst-Hawkeye
Gayle Jeffers-NEA Director
Marlin Jeffers-AEA Chair
LaDona Jergenson-Lincolnway
Paula Logan-Geode/Treasurer
Paul Mann-DMEA
Al Mattison-Unit 2
Linda Nelson-President
Nancy Notton-Stumpff (alternate)-East Central
Jan Olson-Siouxland
Jean Swenson-NEIEU
Peg Thein-JDC
Sarah Topliff-Student Program Chair
Anne Travis-Southwest
Jim Young-NEA Director
At 2:00 p.m. on Friday, June 16th a press conference was held in which we announced our recommendation to the central Iowa media. Present for the press conference were Secretary of State Culver; Ann Albert (far right), ISEA member from Prairie Valley; Kevin Ericson (2nd from right) ISEA member from Nevada; and behind Sec. Culver Vice President Chris Bern, Knoxville. I'm on the left!
Now our work really begins! Team ISEA will be working all corners and throughout the state to door knock, put up yard signs, make phone calls to help elect a majority party that will stand up and vote to support students and public education and will join Chet Culver as our next Governor!
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