Iowa City, Iowa

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ Hamburg basks in Hillary moment Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Braley stand with owner Dave Panther outside Hamburg Inn on Wednesday. This was the former U.S. Secretary of State’s first time at the local landmark. (The Daily Iowan/Alyssa Hitchcock) By QUENTIN MISIAG in?” Rodham Clinton asked the restaurant’s wait By JORDYN REILAND [email protected] staff, referring to the popular Coffee Bean Caucus. [email protected] The visit, experts say, only adds to an on-going Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fixation over not if, but when, Rodham Clinton will This might have been the first time former first visit to Iowa City’s storied Hamburg Inn diner on announce her candidacy. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Wednesday afternoon began when two federal Secret “She is definitely going to run,” said Chris Arter- has come to Iowa this month, but it’s not the Service agents dropped into one of the restaurant’s rus- ton, a professor of political management at George first time Braley and Rodham Clinton have tic wooden booth to order two pie shakes. Washington University. “When she does become a campaigned alongside each other. Soon, owner David Panther was contacted by candidate, she’ll be at the firing line. She is the “The very first time I met her was when his wait staff about the surprise drop-in, and he Godzilla of Democratic politics right now.” we was hosting an event for me on my watched as a motorcade of Secret Service and local After a few minutes filled with handshakes, birthday in 2006,” Braley told Rodham and state police surrounded the restaurant’s Linn hugs, and humble smiles, Braley and Rodham Clinton in front of a crowd of roughly 400 Street location. Clinton sat down at the booth adjacent to the in Cedar Rapids. “I will never forget how Within minutes, Rodham Clinton — a woman Reagan Booth, of course named after former generous you were to me; in hosting the long-pegged as the Democratic frontrunner in the President Ronald Reagan. event, you stayed to the very end.” 2016 race for the White House — walked through Fresh from an appearance in Cedar Rapids, the Supporters gathered at IBEW Lo- the restaurant’s doors. two immediately mingled among a group of in- cal 405 Hall, 1211 Wiley Blvd. S.W., Accompanying her was Bruce Braley, the Demo- trigued college students from the University of Iowa. as a part of the Iowa Votes Rally tour cratic candidate to succeed longtime Sen. Tom Harkin. “I can’t vote in Iowa, but can I drop some beans SEE HAMBURG, 5A SEE BRALEY, 5A McCain stops in Coralville GOP ads By QUENTIN MISIAG [email protected] target Arizona Sen. John McCain returned to Iowa’s cutthroat political grounds Wednesday on an aggressive eight-stop Obamacare tour where he signaled a three-pronged effort to elect the state’s Republican U.S. Senate candidate, denounce national Democratic leadership, and outline his plan to extin- By QUENTIN MISIAG guish the growing threat of Islamic extremist group, ISIS. [email protected] The 78-year old senator, who has largely been an oppo- nent of the two-term Obama administration, reinforced his As the final days of the 2014 mid- support for state Sen. Joni Ernst Wednesday morning to a term election cycle wind down, a key nearly packed room in the Coralville American Legion. theme among Republican attack ads “I can’t tell you how happy I am to [soon] have someone waged against national Democrats on the [Senate] Arms Services Committee,” McCain told has abundantly become clear: They the crowd of approximately 60 about Ernst. nearly all deal with the words, Obama, Both McCain and Ernst are outspoken proponents of Obamacare, or extreme. the Second Amendment, and McCain said Ernst would Case in point: the National Repub- John McCain speaks at Joni Ernst’s Iowa Knows Best Tour at American Legion in Coralville on Wednesday. SEE MCCAIN, 5A McCain visited the area to to support Ernst’s campaign for Senate. 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Dora Grote Send address changes to: The Daily Iowan, TV Sports Director 335-6063 100 Adler Journalism Building, Iowa City, Chelsie Brown Iowa 52242-2004 Jalyn Souchek Web Editor 335-5829 Advertising Manager 335-5193 Tony Phan Renee Manders Business Manager 335-5786 Local tax could aid housing Advertising Sales Staff Debra Plath By LILY ABROMEIT aside for households set nue for affordable housing,” op additional housing Bev Mrstik 335-5792 Classifed Ads/Circulation Manager [email protected] at or below 80 percent of he said. “It would be signifi- units, down-payment as- Cathy Witt 335-5794 Juli Krause 335-5784 median income. cant for affordable-housing sistance [we’ve used] in Production Manager 335-5789 The passing of a local-op- This means, 80 percent programs in the city, as the past, it could go into Heidi Owen tion sales tax on the ballot of the people at or below well as the fact that they owner-occupied rehab; Nov. 4 could mean addi- the median income would can be used as leverage for basically, it could be used tional affordable housing receive aid from the funds. other grants.” for a lot of the programs units or down-payment Achenbach said this Achenbach said this 10 the city has going and assistance for Iowa City is something that has percent is huge, because it other local agencies can residents. sparked a lot of discussion would enable the Housing certainly participate.” Come check us out The local-option sales in the area. Trust Fund alone to sup- Achenbach said she is tax referendum, a 1-cent “There’s been a lot of plement for state funding hopeful the tax will pass so increase in sales tax, would talk of there is not a defini- on existing projects. the city can see these im- on Instagram! allocate 10 percent of its tion of affordable housing “The city portion through provements come to fruition. revenue to affordable hous- but really for those of us the tax could mean almost “I think it would be a ing assistance in Iowa City. working with it, it is hous- double the amount for af- great start toward it … but “Johnson County has ing that is affordable for a fordable housing activi- I think it’s never ending such a significant need for person in low to moderate ties,” she said. According to [because] it’s such a sig- more affordable housing,” income,” she said. the Iowa City government nificant need in Johnson said Tracey Achenbach, Housing should not ex- website, federally funded County,” she said. the executive director of ceed 30 percent of a person’s programs are not affected the Housing Trust Fund income, Achenbach said. by state property-tax re- of Johnson County. “We’ve “The way that I see the form and would therefore Local-Option become a place in which local-option sales tax could not receive revenue from Sales Tax the market cannot keep up be used … is the money this tax. with the demand, so afford- could be used to incentivize Rackis said while the The local-option sales tax, @daily_iowan able housing is something developers to provide af- details are yet to be which will be on the gener- that is hard to provide.” fordable housing,” she said.

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