DES MOINES, IA. (Wheeler News Service) — Governor Scott Walker has become the first potential White House candidate to rent office space in Iowa, where the first-in-the-nation caucuses are less than a year away.
The Des Moines Register broke the story, and Walker spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski confirmed it later. She said the tax-exempt group “Our American Revival” has leased space in suburban Des Moines, and it’s in the process of opening other offices in the Hawkeye State.
The first Walker office is in a strip mall — but shoppers may hardly notice, considering the other political activity which has been conducted in that same store-front in the past. Republican Mitt Romney leased the site in his 2012 general election bid for the White House. Others using it were Michele Bachmann in early 2012, and John McCain in ’08.
