IOWA CAUCUSES TO GET MAKEOVER REVIEW

SIOUX CITY HAS BEEN CHOSEN AS ONE OF TWO SITES TO HOST MEETINGS THAT WILL REWORK HOW THE IOWA REPUBLICAN CAUCUSES ARE RUN AND TABULATED.  FORMER STATE LEGISLATOR BILL SCHICKEL OF MASON CITY WILL LEAD THE EFFORT;

SCHICKEL ADMITS THERE'S SOME PUBLIC RELATIONS REPAIR WORK AHEAD TO BOOST THE NATIONAL VIEW OF THE IOWA CAUCUSES AFTER MITT ROMNEY WAS FIRST DECLARED THE WINNER BY 8 VOTES...AND THEN RICK SANTORUM WAS GIVEN THE VICTORY BY 34 VOTES A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER:

BUT SCHICKEL INSISTS REPUBLICANS DID A GOOD JOB OVERALL WITH A HEAVY TURNOUT FOR THE CLOSEST OUTCOME IN STATE HISTORY.
  

HIS COMMITTEE WILL MEET IN CEDAR RAPIDS ON MAY 30TH AND THEN IN SIOUX CITY AT A YET TO BE DETERMINED SITE ON JUNE 25TH .

Radio Iowa contributed to this story