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Name: Rich Iott
Age: 59
Occupation: Republican candidate for Ohio congressman
Last Seen: Toledo, OH
Bee-otched For: screaming Sieg Heil
----Age: 59
Occupation: Republican candidate for Ohio congressman
Last Seen: Toledo, OH
Bee-otched For: screaming Sieg Heil
It's official: Republicans are Nazis.
Just ask Rich Idiot-er, Iott.
The Republican nominee for Ohio's House of Representatives 9th District (ie Toledo) is in deep doo-doo with several Jewish folks because he portrayed a Nazi as part of a World War II reenactment group. Amongst the groups angry about Iott's portrayal of a Nazi 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking include a Holocaust survivor group and even a Republican Jewish group that called him unfit for office.
Iott claims that the only reason why he played a Nazi is because his group also had him play everything from union soldiers to soldiers in all major US wars. He's even claiming that he hasn't played a Nazi in five years, but according to records, Iott was still a member as late as 2008.
The controversy of Iott and his Nazi portrayal are only adding to his problems running for congressman. His campaign has been riddled by the fact that in 2000, he sold his supermarket chain, Seaway Food Town to Spartan Stores - based here in Grand Rapids - for what is now $7 million in stock. Spartan is well-known for the mismanagement of their stores, including rotting produce and dairy products and astronomically high prices. As we reported a few weeks ago, several long-time Spartan Stores have dropped the chain for other suppliers such as Nash Finch (which carries the Our Family brand) or Affiliated (Shurfine/Shurfresh). One former Spartan Store owner, Richard Young - who owns the Village Market in Elk Rapids with his son Kevin running their sister store in Alden - wrote in a statement that Spartan's transition from a co-op to a publically-traded company played a role in their decision to drop the warrior symbol after five decades.
Ironically, another former Spartan Store that flipped to Affiliated is Hart's Hansen Foods, which was owned by Goeff Hansen (R), a state rep now running for state senate. From its founding in 1966 by Goeff's parents to the 2000's, it was distributed by Wisconsin-based Roundy's and its predecessor, Muskegon-based Viking Foods. However, when Roundy's pulled out of the distribution business, Hansen went to Spartan. However, when Hansen became a state rep, he bequeathed his store's operations to his brother David, who owned another Hansen Foods in Suttons Bay, but sold it to a business associate. At least with this transition, no jobs were lost. Almost as soon as he took control of the store in Hart, David dropped Spartan for Affiliated.
But, unlike Hansen's, jobs were lost and business wasn't as usual for Food Town. Just three years after they took over, Spartan's dicking around with Food Town cost them customers, and they were forced to shut down all 47 locations, plus 26 locales of Food Town's drug store chain, The Pharm. Thousands of people lost their jobs while Iott counted his money and ran.
Folks, when your fellow Repukes tell you to go away, it's not a good sign. Plus, he's anti-healthcare reform, claiming that it'll cost people jobs. However, he's anti-bailout, claiming that it's unconstitutional. Good, but not good enough to keep jobs, at least for him. He knew that Spartan was well-known for screwing things, up, so why sell? Honestly, I think it's a miracle that here in Grand Rapids, their Family Fare's still open, even though their prices suck and Meijer's kicking their ass.
If I lived in Toledo, I'd be voting for Marcy Kaptur again, too.
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