Video: Iowa Family Leader announces new jihad against state supreme court — Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum pile on to dump Justice David Wiggins

In 2010, Chief Justice Marsha Ternus and Associated Justices David Baker and Michael Streit lost their bids for retention after the Iowa Family Leader and a Washington-based antigay pressure group, the National Organization for Marriage spent $800,000 to defeat them because they voted with ALL other members of the Iowa Court in deciding that the equal protection clause in Iowa's constitution included gay couples, in a 69-page decision.
     Earlier this year, AKSARBENT learned from Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal that even in the absence of politicking, 30% of Iowans typically vote to throw out judges up for retention.
     This year's campaign against Wiggins was announced by failed gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats at Point of Grace Church in Waukee, a Des Moines suburb. Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum shared the spotlight. Vander Plaats is the chairman of yet another group, Iowans for Freedom, whose announcement followed Iowa Republican Party Chairman A.J. Spiker’s call this month for Republicans to oppose Wiggins’ retention.
     Last year the anonymously funded National Organization for Marriage spent big bucks in District 18 in an tag-team attempt with Bob Vander Plaats to make Cindy Golding's state senate bid a referendum on gay marriage. She lost. Maybe it was the tens of thousands of annoying robocalls.
      A group supporting Wiggins' retention, Justice Not Politics, led by former Lieutenant Gov. Joy Corning, a Republican, and former Lieutenant Gov. Sally Pederson, a Democrat — is mounting its own campaign to protect Wiggins. Said group chairwoman Connie Ryan Terrell Saturday:

Supporters reject the vicious attacks from political extremists and value a fair court which protects the rights of every Iowa family.