The former leader of the Christian Coalition was in Iowa, urging members of the Iowa Christian Alliance to help launch a new, "sister" organization in the state.
Ralph Reed, the former executive director of the Christian Coalition, says the "Iowa Faith and Freedom" organization will make sure "God's people" know where the candidates stand.
Reed says the "eyes of America" will be on Iowa in 2012 as the state performs a "critical role" in choosing the next president.
Reed promised that the national "Faith and Freedom" group he launched last June would match whatever donations were collected last night from the crowd of about 500 Iowa Christian Alliance members.
And Reed said his get-out-the-vote program to target "pro-life and pro-family voters" in Iowa will take about half a million dollars to run.
