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[Correction: Two candidates live outside of the Iowa City metro: Jon Green of Lone Tree and Susan Vileta of Swisher. An earlier version of this article misidentified Green as the sole candidate living outside the Iowa City metro.]
A Johnson County candidate got a big endorsement from the senator from Vermont on Monday. As mayor of Lone Tree, Jon successfully fought for living wages and to revitalize rural Iowa through access to broadband and affordable child care. I m proud to support his grassroots campaign for Johnson County Supervisor, Sanders said in a statement Monday. Jon was one of the earliest Bernie supporters in Iowa and a real advocate for rural Iowans, Sanders political director Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben tweeted Monday.
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.
A county public health department employee is seeking a spot on the Johnson County Board of Supervisors.
Democrat Susan Vileta of Swisher has spent the past seven years working at the Johnson County Public Health Department but said the last year handling the response to the COVID-19 pandemic was the real test. People may not realize how much of this we took to heart. You would wake up in your sleep answering questions, and you would be using your free time to look at new research, she said. It consumed us for a very long time.
As the coronavirus continued to spread, Vileta said her role as a health educator felt high-stakes.
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