“We want to educate folks in Iron County about the issue,” Fladeboe said. “We’re working with our folks in the area who know what’s going on.”

However, town of Saxon Assistant Fire Chief Karl Krall said he wonders where they are getting their information. Krall said he is a strong proponent of the mine, and he is puzzled and angry about being described as a job-killing radical on the material sent to his friends, neighbors and potential voters in the district where he is a candidate.

“I couldn’t believe that someone who is pro-mine and for this wouldn’t do the research on the people they are sliming in the mailing,” Krall said. “Is that the kind of people we want supporting the mine if that’s the kind sloppy research they did?”

Wearing a blue hardhat, Krall stood an arm’s length away from Walker as the governor pushed for mine-friendly legislation during the 2013 State of the State address in the Capitol.

Krall said he was also in attendance when Walker signed the landmark bill that relaxed regulations for Gogebic. Krall said he was given one of the pens Walker used to sign the bill.

“Everybody in the town except me got the flyer saying I’m an anti-mine radicalist,” Krall said. “It’s a joke.”