IOWA A.G. BIRD TO SPEAK TO GOP CONVENTION TONIGHT
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird will deliver a speech at the Republican National Convention later today (Tuesday). Bird says her remarks will support Trump’s priorities of keeping communities safe.
Bird was the only statewide elected official to endorse Trump before the Iowa Caucuses. She declines to speculate on whether she’d accept a role in Trump’s Administration next year if he wins in November. On the convention’s first day, Bird was tapped to oversee the process of nominating J.D. Vance as Trump’s running mate.
KASS ON VANCE Former President Donald Trump chose Ohio Senator J.D. Vance to be his running mate in the 2024 presidential election, making the announcement Monday afternoon at the G-O-P convention in Milwaukee.
Don Kass, chairman of the Plymouth County Republicans, likes the selection:
Kass says Vance was one of his top picks to get the vice presidential nomination from Trump:
Vance would be the first U.S. Marine to ever serve as vice president if elected.
He graduated from the Ohio State University in two years, summa cum laude, and is a Yale Law School graduate, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal, and president of the Yale Law Veterans Association.
Vance’s book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” became a major best seller and movie, as it championed the hardworking men and women of our country.
FORMER LE MARS RESIDENT AN EYEWITNESS TO TRUMP SHOOTING A retired U.S. Air Force special operations member who lived in Le Mars, Iowa was a few feet away from former President Donald Trump when the attempted assassination of Trump took place Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Jim Truemper was seated in the bleachers just behind the podium where Trump spoke:
He saw the former President quickly go down after being struck in the ear by one of those shots:
Truemper was also not far away from the Pennsylvania firefighter who was killed by one of those shots:
Truemper says he and the crowd around the former President immediately thought the worst when Trump dropped to the floor.
The former special operations airman says there are definitely security questions that need to be answered in the aftermath of the shooting
Truemper says the shooting will not stop him from attending future political rallies.
He now lives in his hometown in the Pittsburgh area following his retirement from the Air Force.
POSSIBLE DERECHO STARTS IN IOWA, LEAVING A TRAIL OF DAMAGE INTO MICHIGAN
A powerful series of storms swept from Iowa to Michigan late Monday afternoon and night. There was at least one tornado in Iowa and power was knocked out to nearly a half-million Midwesterners. Some weather and news outlets are calling the storms a derecho, but meteorologist Brooke Hagenhoff, at the National Weather Service office in Johnston, says still it’s too early to say that.
A derecho, also called a land hurricane, is defined as a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms. This storm system appears to fit that definition, bringing exceptionally powerful winds to many areas of Iowa, including a report of 102-mile an hour gusts near New Vienna in Dubuque County. There are dozens of damage reports from central into eastern Iowa of toppled trees, downed power lines, and structural damage to homes, businesses and other buildings. The one confirmed tornado touched down in metro Des Moines.
Another report says the power was cut to more than 460-thousand customers in the region, including parts of Chicago. Iowa-based MidAmerican Energy reported 40-thousand customers without power last night, mostly in the Des Moines, Iowa City and Davenport areas. One Des Moines T-V station reports the electricity may not be restored to all Urbandale residents until late tonight or early tomorrow. Many counties in northeast Iowa reported large hail, Benton County reported two-and-a-half inches of rainfall, and there was scattered flash flooding, including Highway 61 being underwater near Zwingle.
Hagenhoff says the weather service is dispatching survey teams to several Iowa locations where the damage is concentrated.
There are no serious injuries reported in Iowa, though one death is attributed to the storm. Reports say a woman in Indiana was killed when a tree fell on her home. The derecho that hit Iowa in August of 2020 had winds that peaked in the Cedar Rapids area around 140 miles an hour. The storm destroyed more than seven-million Iowa trees and caused some 11-billion dollars damage.
IOWA GOP CHAIR NOMINATES TRUMP AT NATIONAL CONVENTION
The Iowa delegates at the Republican National Convention cast their votes Monday for Donald Trump as the next president. Iowa G-O-P chairman Jeff Kaufmann was chosen to kick off the process with a nominating speech and began his remarks by talking about the Iowa’s role as the lead-off contest in the presidential election. Kaufmann says the vast majority of states seconded Iowa’s choice. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is a temporary chair of the Republican National Convention. She will preside over the nominating of Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance. Bird is scheduled to speak at the convention (Tuesday) tonight.
MUSEUM DIRECTORS INTRODUCED TO SUPERVISORS
The new Executive Directors of the Plymouth County Historical Museum introduced themselves to the Plymouth County Board of Supervisors today. Dr. Harry Dunstan and Kay Krekow began their work this month. They come from Virginia, where they were opera singers. The two are pointing the Museum in a new direction. Their prime directive is to eventually become a Smithsonian Affiliate Museum. Their first steps in getting there are to begin ongoing educational programs for adults and children. They plant to host lectures, concerts and other presentations in the Historical Museum, and in other locations in Plymouth County. Connections with schools and businesses in the county is also an essential element to development. They also plan fundraisers and will pursue grants to fund their operations. One of the first things Dunstan and Krekow have done is to rename the central hall at the Museum the Central Arts Space.
LE MARS COUNCIL MEETS
The Le Mars city council meets this afternoon at 1 p.m. Action items on the agenda today include a Farmer’s Market request, final plat of a subdivision in the city industrial park. And updates to the city employees’ manual is also to be considered.
WESTFIELD ARREST
The Plymouth County Dispatch Center received a report of an assault in Westfield, Iowa, Sunday morning. As a result of an investigation into this report, the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office arrested and charged Terence Lynn Jolin, age 63 of Westfield, Iowa with domestic abuse assault 2nd offense. Jolin was booked into the Plymouth County Jail and held to see the judge.
SIOUX CENTER WOMAN JAILED AFTER ACCIDENT
Early Monday, the Sioux County Sheriff’s Office arrested Alexis Trejo, age 21, of Sioux Center, IA. The arrest occurred after the investigation of a motor vehicle accident that occurred on 390th Street, ten miles west of Sioux Center, IA. Trejo was driving west on 390th Street when she lost control, entered the south ditch and came to a rest in the south ditch. Trejo was transported by the Ireton Ambulance to Sioux Center Health for treatment of minor injuries. Deputies suspected that Trejo was under the influence of alcohol. Upon release from medical care, Trejo was transported to the Sioux County Jail where she was charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and operating a motor vehicle while driver’s license suspended. She was also cited for registration violation, fraudulent use of registration, failure to maintain control of a motor vehicle and failure to provide proof of financial liability (no proof of insurance).
ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
The Sioux County Sheriffs Office is seeking information into an incident Sunday morning near Maurice. The Sheriff’s Office investigated a motor vehicle accident that occurred on Harrison Ave 1/8 mile north of 460th ST,1 mile north of Maurice, IA.
Sometime between the hours of 8 and 11 am Sunday, a silver vehicle traveling southbound on Harrison Avenue left the roadway, entered the east ditch and proceeded into a cornfield. The vehicle backed out of the corn to the ditch, then re-entered the cornfield and drove through several hundred feet of standing corn before leaving the area.
If you have any information about this accident or you were the driver of the vehicle, please call the Sheriff’s Office at 712 737 3307.
