December marked ten years of activism and political opinion through VeritasPAC.com. Hard to believe our growth during this time from the humble beginnings shown in our memory album to the publishing colossus we are today. :-). (more information about our anniversary below the album)
The early days of the political opinion empire
Undisclosed location
It was tough going back in the day
Our appearances had to keep up with our reach and influence
Don Holmes “dlh” and Roger Mall “r mall” are the main commenters and collaborators producing content on this site with, yours truly, Roger Mall serving as managing editor and as such responsible for edits. We publish others — and welcome more submissions and comments. Also see our “About” page.
Besides our original takes on political happenings in Iowa (and elsewhere because they affect Iowa) we draw heavily from original reporting and commentary by others — applying our comments, annotations, emphasis and recommendations. Our spin often involves ridicule, especially when it involves calling attention to hypocrisies and apostasies.
V’PAC.com has published over 5400 posts in this time which is an average of about ten a week. It has slowed down of late although in real part it has a lot to do with being overwhelmed with the momentous times we live in — with important developments coopting initially timely offerings. It is hard to keep up — which is another reason we welcome more commentary from others when an inspiration hits you. Be featured — we would like a stable of compatible writers.
Comparatively well-funded Iowa based outlets have come and gone in less time. Certainly there are more prominent very worthy blogs focused on Iowa, one we particularly like is The Iowa Standard. All of them make appeals for funds and or solicit advertising. But we are somewhat unique in that we are a function of a registered Iowa political action committee, we do not hound people with funding requests or VIP subscriptions, and we would be very shy of accepting advertising because of the complications involved.
We do accept donations by check and use them to pay for operational expenses of our political opinion outreach (the .com) which is our main PAC operating function of late and which we feel has had some influence in political affairs in this state. When sufficient support is received we can directly support candidates for state office in primaries and general elections and for party office when appropriate. They will of course need to be most compatible with our views and while not accepting directed donations, readers might have a good idea of our proclivities. See our contribution page.
In closing Don and I wish to thank the contributors, submitters, commenters and the side-bar forwards of links and comments. Keep up the good work.
