The Herman Cain presidential campaign announced Wednesday that former
Republican Party of Iowa Chairman, Steve Grubbs, will join the campaign
as the Iowa
State Chairman.
“We tried a community organizer as president, maybe it's time we put a
CEO in the White
House,” said Grubbs. “I've
had the good fortune to work with Bob Dole, Steve Forbes
and Tommy Thompson
and I
can honestly say that I've never quite seen the groundswell of
excitement that I'm seeing for Herman Cain.”
“Having Steve Grubbs join our team demonstrates the commitment the Cain
campaign has for its
state-by-
state
strategy. We believe in our national strategy, but we know that we will
need a strong ground based organization to do well in Iowa,” said Mark
Block, chief of staff for the Cain campaign. “Steve Grubbs has been a
part of the Dole Presidential campaigns in '88
and
'96 as well as the Forbes campaign in 2000. These presidential bids
were well organized campaigns
and that's our
goal for the caucuses.”
Steve Grubbs is considered one of the leading Republican strategists
in Iowa. He has worked on four presidential campaigns and
more than 100 state and
local campaigns in the state. He served as
Chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa in '97-98 and
served six years in the Iowa House of
Representatives prior to that.
“I've looked at the Cain campaign organization and
while there's a lot of work to do, it has the ingredients to win.
Herman Cain has deep support in Iowa and that
makes the job of finding precinct leaders easier,” said Grubbs. “Mitt Romney has five years behind his organization in
Iowa and that makes him the frontrunner, but
the momentum of the Cain campaign is only getting stronger and the enthusiasm for Herman’s vision to turn our
country around is only getting louder.”