Big Bird to Crash Romney Iowa Appearance?: Iowa City Daily News Links, Oct. 9

I could go for a cold rainy day.

On to the Links!

Iowa CCI has promised to bring Big Bird to a Mitt Romney visit today. (Des Moines Register)

Mitchell Schmidt of the Iowa City Press-Citizen writes that Iowa City is again in the running to be declared a blue zone community.

Bill Clinton will be in Western and Central Iowa later this week campaigning for congressional candidates Vilsack and Boswell.

The battle over retaining Iowa Supreme Court Justice Wiggins is part of a symbolic national tug of war over validating or repudiating gay marriage, reports the Associated Press.

An anti Wiggins group claims that he has low favorability among the state's lawyers. Of course, one wonders if they would care at all if they weren't trying to get rid of him for the reason mentioned above. (Sioux City Journal)

Mitchell Schmidt of the Press-Citizen writes that North Liberty and Coralville are looking for public input the future of Forevergreen Road.

Tara Bannow of the Press-Citizen writes that despite persistent effort from the university, the rate of transfer students to the University of Iowa has remained steady.

Lee Hermiston of the Press-Citizen gives a preview of what looks to be a fairly normal flu season.

Saturday's zombie march was a fundraising success. (Press-Citizen)

Daily Links Excerpt of the Day

CCI’s demonstration taps into that response.

“Big Bird and ‘Sesame Street’ didn’t cause the economic crisis and financial meltdown, the big banks on Wall Street did,” CCI Action Fund member Jess Reznicek said in a statement. “The letter B is for bully, and that’s exactly what Mitt Romney is: a bully who picks on PBS instead of Goldman Sachs.”

“Sesame Street”  and the real Big Bird, of course, will have nothing to do with the protest. In a tweet sent out the morning after the debate, Sesame Workshop, the group the produces the show, said: “We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. We do not comment on campaigns, but we’re happy we can all agree that everyone likes Big Bird!”

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