{"id":10455,"date":"2020-02-15T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T20:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/?p=10455"},"modified":"2020-02-15T14:46:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T20:46:54","slug":"breaking-news-state-representative-mark-d-smith-has-been-selected-the-interim-chair-of-the-iowa-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/breaking-news-state-representative-mark-d-smith-has-been-selected-the-interim-chair-of-the-iowa-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: State representative Mark D. Smith has been selected the interim chair of the Iowa Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State representative Mark D. Smith has been selected the interim chair of the Iowa Democratic Party to replace Try Price who tendered his resignation earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Four candidates total were nominated for this position. They were:<\/p><div id=\"holaa-3286230849\" class=\"holaa-ad-inside-articles-2\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesperformingarts.org\/whats-on\/series\/summerarts\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" aria-label=\"HI-SummerSeries-300&#215;250-SP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HI-SummerSeries-300x250-SP.jpg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>\n<p>Gabriel de la Cerda<br \/>\nJoe Henry<br \/>\nBob Krause<br \/>\nAnd Mark Smith<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Smith has served District 71 as the representative for 18 years. Last September he announced he would be retiring after finishing his current term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During these twenty years, we\u2019ve gone through many changes in this legislative district. As we tackled changing demographics in our community, it has been important to me to be a voice of progress and equality.\u00a0 We are communities that reflect the diverse faces of Iowa more than most communities.\u00a0 We have been welcoming to new Iowans and now are rich, diverse communities.\u00a0 From classes at the downtown learning center to the citizenship classes at United Food and Commercial Workers Hall, over many years, I saw the faces of new Iowans who are eager to be part of the American Dream.\u00a0 We, in this legislative district, have offered those opportunities to thousands.&#8221; Mark Smith wrote in a letter to the Marshalltown Republican after he announced his retirement last fall.<\/p>\n<div id=\"holaa-2507693690\" class=\"holaa-after-content\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/progressiowa.org\/2023\/08\/take-action-with-progress-iowa\/?utm_source=news&#038;utm_medium=site&#038;utm_campaign=2026&#038;utm_id=News\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Progress Iowa Spanish 300&#215;250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Progress-Iowa-Spanish-300x250-1.png\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State representative Mark D. Smith has been selected the interim chair of the Iowa Democratic Party to replace Try Price who tendered his resignation earlier this week. Four candidates total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,35,51],"tags":[1956,1830,1955,1957],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}