Wednesday, July 23, 2025

The bellows of Madison County

 
Headline:  Des Moines Register, 7/23/2025

Nick El Hajj reports:
At the heart of the dispute: the contested status of Schwarz, whose recent appointment — despite calls for a special election to fill a declared vacancy — triggered confusion, anger and allegations of misconduct. “You kicked him out of his office. I want to know why!” Stancil shouted back at Swanson, igniting a nearly 30-minute-long argument over whether Schwarz’s removal and swift reinstatement had any legal basis.

Wikipedia (and below)

Madison County (population 16,971) gained fame with the publication of this wildly 1992 popular novel by Robert James Waller, which Clint Eastwood made into a movie starring Meryl Streep.



It's a Trumpy kinda place.



Related post:
Greetings from Trump's America: Madison County, Iowa, now 94.9% white and Trumpier than it was in 2016.  (11/10/2020)


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