Calls for War on Poverty
On Monday, January 20th Jonathan R. Narcisse, an editor and publisher, former Des Moines School Board Director and former Co-Chair of the Polk County Democratic Party, announced his entry into the 2014 Democratic Party gubernatorial race.
Narcisse, affirming his love of Iowa and faith in Iowans, called for bold action throughout his announcement.
Invoking images of Lyndon Johnson’s War onPoverty Narcisse announced it would be the highest priority of his administration to end poverty in Iowa. “We have the means to end poverty in this state …

Served as Co-Chair of the Polk County Democratic Party from 1984 to 1986, chairing a record voter registration and turnout effort that contributed to Iowa going from a G.O.P. to a Democratic state.  
He worked on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. with the House D.C. committee headed by Congressman Walter Fauntroy.
He was the youngest co-chair and chair of a state commission in Iowa serving from the very beginning of the Iowa Commission on the Status of Blacks, now African-Americans.  
During more than three decades of …