Iowa GOP chair to N.H. tomorrow
The chairman of the Iowa Republican Party, Matt Strawn, is coming to New Hampshire tomorrow – and he won’t be wearing a tinfoil hat.
The relationship between the first-in-the-nation caucus state and the first-in-the-nation primary state has generally been a friendly one. But recently, several Granite Staters have been taking their digs at the Hawkeye State.
There was Fergus Cullen, a former New Hampshire Republican Party chairman, who argued in an op-ed in the Des Moines Register that the Iowa caucus is losing its relevance.
He noted that nearly three-quarters of Iowa Republicans in a recent poll questioned whether President Obama was born in the United States.
“It’s hard to talk about real issues when three-quarters of the audience wears tinfoil hats,’’ Cullen wrote, referring to a popular image of conspiracy theorists.
Then there was another former New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman – former Governor John H. Sununu –who told Real Clear Politics that the Iowa caucuses are becoming “more of a commercial operation’’ compared to New Hampshire’s low-key retail politics.
To combat that image, Strawn is coming to Concord, N.H., to talk up the relationship between the two states.
Strawn will hold a media availability at New Hampshire’s Legislative Office Building to discuss Iowa’s caucus and “the relationship and bond between Iowa and its ‘First-In-the-Nation’ counterpart New Hampshire,’’ according to a release from the Iowa Republican Party.
He will also be meeting with current New Hampshire Republican Party chairman, Jack Kimball, who is perhaps the only recent party chairman who hasn’t dissed the Iowans.
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