Micah Broekemeier, a 29-year-old former Marine and history student at the University of Iowa, hopes to be the second Republican to win a Johnson County Supervisor spot in the last decade.
Broekemeier transferred to Iowa in 2020, in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic. But he said the transition from Iowa Western Community College wasn’t difficult.
“I had no college experience. I'd never taken (college) classes or anything like that. I just showed up and said, ‘Hey, I guess this is how college works, right?' ” Broekemeier said. “They told me things were a little different this year.”
He wasn’t in town for long before he caught wind of the area’s nickname, “The Peoples’ Republic of Johnson County.” And he wasn’t daunted by it.