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rurallib

(63,159 posts) Fri Jan 13, 2017, 11:18 AM Jan 2017

Muscy Council votes to oust mayor

http://wqad.com/2017/01/12/muscatine-council-votes-to-oust-mayor-broderson/

This is total insanity. Muscatine as a city is destroying itself in order to retain the good old boy power structure.
The 7 male city council voted unanimously to bring charges against the female mayor. What charges they won't say and probably haven't even made them up yet.

Their problem is that she is a democrat. There is a ton of Republican money in Muscatine.

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Muscy Council votes to oust mayor (Original Post) rurallib Jan 2017 OP

Awful shenmue Jan 2017 #1

I have always said that Muscatine is the home of Iowa's Republican money rurallib Jan 2017 #2

Well, lets see. She's a woman and a Democrat. progressoid Jan 2017 #3

Apparently rurallib Jan 2017 #4

shenmue

(38,537 posts)

1. Awful

Reply to rurallib (Original post)

Fri Jan 13, 2017, 11:46 AM

Jan 2017

rurallib

(63,159 posts)

2. I have always said that Muscatine is the home of Iowa's Republican money

Reply to shenmue (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 13, 2017, 12:08 PM

Jan 2017

it's the home of Dave Stanley. You may have heard of him. Muscatine has some huge worldwide industries in town. But the city is not the kind of place I would want to live and this just adds to the bad image.

When I was born so many years back, Muscatine and Iowa City were about the same size. Muscatine was becoming an indutrial center, Iowa City the education hub. You can see how that has turned out.