Iowa fornicate sticks using Tibbetts to add attorney to ballot
Ugh
A group of Iowa conservatives scrambled Saturday to add an attorney general candidate to the November ballot, an effort fueled by the arrest of a Mexican man in the slaying of missing college student Mollie Tibbetts.
Petition organizers were tasked with collecting 1,500 valid signatures of registered voters from at least 10 counties and turning them in the Iowa Secretary of State's Office by 5 p.m. Saturday.
Dozens of people across the state were collecting signatures to get attorney Patrick Anderson, of Des Moines, onto the ballot to challenge incumbent Tom Miller, a Democrat currently running unopposed for his 10th term. Anderson would be listed as a non-party candidate.
George Anderson, an organizer of the effort and Patrick Anderson's son, said the group had gathered a little more than 900 signatures by 1 p.m. Saturday.
I almost wish someone had stuck one of those petitions in my face so I could have explained in graphic detail what they could go do with their petitions, and what I think Anderson should go do to himself for using Tibbetts to springboard his political career.