Iowa Political Alert: Rubio campaigning in Carroll

Friday, November 13, 2015

Rubio campaigning in Carroll

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a Republican candidate for the presidency, will be hosting a town hall in Carroll on Monday, Nov. 23 at Greasewood Flats Ranch located at 1607 Griffith Road.


Sen. Marco Rubio

Doors will open at 8 a.m. with the town hall starting at 8:30 a.m. The event is open to the full public.

Carroll Mayor Adam Schweers, an active Republican, and State Rep. Brian Best, R-Glidden, have endorsed Rubio.

The latest Real Clear Politics average of major national polls among Republican voters has real-estate mogul Donald Trump leading the GOP presidential field with 24.8 support compared with 24.4 percent for Dr. Ben Carson, a surgeon and author. Rubio is in third at 11.8 percent. The polling is an average running from Oct. 24 to Nov. 4

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Douglas Burns is a writer and columnist for the Daily Times Herald in Carroll, Iowa. Burns is also a co-owner of the newspaper which has been in his family for three generations.

Additionally, Burns is a contributor to The Center for Rural Strategies' Daily Yonder, a national online rural newspaper. He also writes a regular column, Political Mercury, for Cityview, a Des Moines weekly newspaper.

Burns is a Cedar Rapids native who grew up in Carroll and graduated from Carroll High School in 1987 before moving on to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where he majored in journalism and graduated in 1991.