DES MOINES — Bob Vander Plaats came under fire from his former campaign treasurer Dan Moore who said Thursday that his former boss is hurting Iowa by politicizing the judicial process.

Vander Plaats runs the conservative Christian group the Family Leader, which is credited with leading the campaign to oust three Iowa Supreme Court judges in November because of the Varnum vs. Brien decision that legalized same-sex marriage in Iowa.

At a news conference in Des Moines, Moore said Vander Plaats’ continuing campaign is trying to “make the courts accountable to special interests, not the Constitution.”

But Vander Plaats is using the criticism to his advantage, he said.

Appearing at an Altoona Pizza Ranch restaurant as part of his 99-county tour to organize conservatives a few hours after the downtown news conference, Vander Plaats told a crowd of about 50 that “the liberals are working around the clock, just today they held a press conference at the Des Moines Public Library attacking us.”

Several of those gathered nodded their heads at his comment and one man said, “Amen.”

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