majority of people in iron county don't want it. >> the board has the power to pass ordinances that could slow down gtac's efforts. >> you know the chairman i think of the iron county board of supervisors, he said it's his job to help facilitate this mine. well, let's find 27 people to vote against him and get someone in there that's got at least the gall to ask a few questions. >> several citizens, like dick thiede, took up paul demain's call to run for election to the iron county board. >> hi mike...you know i'm running for the county board right? >> oh yeah. >> well first of all they're hardly ever contested, i mean for the past probably 40 years they've had to go out and ask people, don't you want to be on the county board, because there was no, no candidates. i mean it's a thankless job. >> i'm saving a stamp by handing it to you. >> ah, ok. >> in a race where candidates typically only spend about a hundred dollars on a couple rolls of stamps, dick found himself in the crosshairs of americans for prosperity, an organization founded by billionaire libertarian activists, the koch brothers. >> americans for prosperity's wisconsin office happens to be in the same building as gtac's lo