Cedar Rapids Businesswoman Cindy Golding won the Republican nomination in Senate District 18 with 51 percent of the vote on Thursday night. Golding edged out Mary Rathje and Matt Dummermuth on the first ballot. Golding will now face Democrat Liz Mathis on November 8th.
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Craig Robinson serves as the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheIowaRepublican.com. Prior to founding Iowa's largest conservative news site, Robinson served as the Political Director of the Republican Party of Iowa during the 2008 Iowa Caucuses. In that capacity, Robinson planned and organized the largest political event in 2007, the Iowa Straw Poll, in Ames, Iowa. Robinson also organized the 2008 Republican caucuses in Iowa, and was later dispatched to Nevada to help with the caucuses there.
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