By THOMAS BEAUMONT • tbeaumont@dmreg.com • November 4, 2009 Mount Vernon, Ia. - It could be said that overcoming adversity is the Vander Plaats family motto. During World War II, Bob Vander Plaats' father, patriarch of the...
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats stated that Terry Branstad’s choice of a running mate in 1994 "doesn’t line up with the core values of the Republican Party" ("Branstad Record Is a Target, Warns GOP’s Vander...