"Iowa Candidate: koch backing 'like being endorsed by Charles Manson'"

[applegrove]

Iowa Candidate: koch backing 'like being endorsed by Charles Manson'

by Dana Davidson at CNN

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/06/iowa-candidate-koch-backing-like-being-endorsed-by-charles-manson/

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(CNN) - Elections in Coralville, Iowa, a town of about 20,000, took a big city turn when the billionaire Koch brother's group, Americans for Prosperity, jumped into last year's mayoral and city council race.

"It was kind of like being endorsed by Charles Manson," is how Chris Turner, a fiscally conservative city council candidate, described the support by AFP to "The Daily Show's" Jason Jones.

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"I've been through several elections and I welcome opponents but they brought an air of ugliness to this campaign that is not the way we run our government in Coralville," he said.

The Koch brother's group's attacks also warned that Coralville, where the city's debt was a major issue in the campaign, would become the next Detroit.






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[oldandhappy]

1. Loved this statement.

Hope this gives other areas the courage to stand up to K manipulations.

[DebJ]

2. I think this will be my favorite quote from all of 2014. n/t