Workshop: Iowa Caucus Education

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Date/Time:Monday, 09 Nov 2015 from 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Location:Sun Room, Memorial Union
Cost:Free
URL:https://cattcenter.las.iastate.edu/2015/...ctivities/
Phone:515-294-9867
Channel:College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Categories:Lectures
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Guest speakers will talk about the importance of the Iowa Caucuses and explain the Republican Party caucus process and the Democratic Party caucus process. Following these presentations, members of the Republican and Democratic parties will lead mock caucuses for the workshop participants. Part of the Catt Center's caucus education series of activities.

Dave Price, WHO-TV's political director, will open the workshop with remarks on the importance of the Iowa Caucuses. At the Des Moines NBC-TV affiliate, Price specializes in coverage of the Iowa Caucuses and state government. His first book, "Caucus Chaos," provides an insider's account of the always unpredictable way Iowans help pick the next president.

Kim Reem, president of the Iowa Federation of Republic Women, and Dr. Andy McGuire, chair of the Iowa Democratic Party, will explain their party's caucus process during the workshop. They will be joined by Josie-Rae Bradley, the caucus to convention director for the Iowa Democratic Party, and Gwen Ecklund, past president of the IFRW, in leading a mock caucus.

Workshop sponsors
Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics
Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
Andrew Goodman Foundation Ambassadors
League of Women Voters of Ames and Story County
Ames Chamber of Commerce
Iowa State Daily
Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication
Speech Communication Program
Department of Political Science