AKSARBENT: if you vote for these people, you must have, as Ann Landers said, a "clinker in your thinker"

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You can print this page, cut out the electioneering headline and this paragraph and take with you to the polls the list of candidates below who we wouldn't recommend to any voter. Click on each link to see why we think they should take an early retirement from "public service," or be blackballed from it in the first place.

Iowa:
Steve King
Tom Latham
Al Ringenberg

Nebraska:
Deb Fischer
Lee Terry
Jim Smith
Tom Carlson
Beau McCoy
Ken Schliz
Mark Christensen 
Jean Strotheart