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Spencer Daily Reporter: We have to start talking about individual responsibility

Managing Editor — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 05:58:56 +0000

“I’d much rather be enjoying my season pass to Adventureland with my kid. But if the good people don’t do something, the bad people win. That’s how you make things better,” Narcisse admitted.

“It’s a big state,” he continued. “But the experience of doing 99 counties in the past has prepared me to do it efficiently and effectively. I enjoy getting out. Iowans are amazing poeple. Unfortunately the leadership the last 30 years has not been. In the 1980s, Gov. Branstad and Jack Hatch became fixtures ...

Daily Iowan: Leadership needed to put state interests over cronies

Managing Editor — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 05:30:01 +0000

“We need a vision for the state,” said Narcisse, 51. “We need, I believe, leadership that will put the interest of the state above cronies.”

A personal friendship with his opponents — five-term Republican Gov. Terry Branstad and Democratic Sen. Jack Hatch — should not stand in the way of improving the state’s population base and education system, he said.

For his second attempt at the gubernatorial seat, Narcisse said recent political turmoil that has sent some campaigns reeling improve his chances.

“Eric Cantor losing proved that every ...

Des Moines Register: Non-patronage approach to appointments

Managing Editor — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 05:21:38 +0000

As governor, he has said he would work to reduce education bureaucracy and redirect existing funds to college aid, classroom instruction and early childhood education. Regarding the economy, he proposed levying income taxes on only the first 40 hours that an individual works each week and offering rebates on state income taxes that taxpayers can direct to charities or invest in Iowa-based companies.

He also called for reorganizing state government to be more efficient, with less “bureaucratic excess, waste and duplication,” livestreaming all state board and ...

Simon Conway: Opportunity to create a new unique party in Iowa

Managing Editor — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 05:35:47 +0000

Jonathan Narcisse was the first guest on Simon Conway’s WHO AM radio show in Des Moines, where he first publicly announced his candidacy as an independent under the Iowa Party banner, for Governor of Iowa.

Full interview here (begins at 12:30 mark): http://www.whoradio.com/media/podcast-simon-conway-simonconway/simon-conway-72814-hour-1-25084103/