Candidate Forum at ISU Turns Bloody

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Well only kind of. Drew covers the entire event, and it sounds like the Register is polite in describing the exchanges as “stepped-up.”  Culver and Blouin went after each other while Fallon asked everyone to play nice and Mohamed was ignored:

Chet Culver said Monday that fellow Democratic candidate for governor Mike Blouin’s support of a higher minimum wage and acceptance of laws allowing abortion are election-year changes intended to curry favor with primary voters.

Blouin countered that Culver’s running mate, Patty Judge, supported restrictions on abortion, despite Culver’s characterization of himself and Judge as having always “unequivocally” backed abortion rights.

“People are not always as troubled by a position you take as they are troubled when you flip and you flop and you try to get every side of the issue,” said Culver, Iowa’s secretary of state. “You have seen what I believe is an election-year conversion.”

I’m glad we’ve adopted the term ”flip flopper” though.

Also, Blouin probably shouldn’t be going after folks’ running mates for being inconsistent.

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