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GOP attack ad backfires as woman warning about kids exposed for DUI with her kids in car

A GOP super PAC ad branding an Iowa Democrat a danger to kids has run into trouble with its own messenger. Shellie Flockhart, a Dallas Center city council member featured in the Congressional Leadership Fund spot, pleaded guilty to child endangerment and drunken driving after police found her intoxicated with two of her children in the car in 2017, The…

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