. >> reporter: at the leadership summit, vicki crawford doesn't think money makes much difference. does it worry you that the person who has the most money is more than likely going to win? >> actually my thought is the truth will win if it's given enough of an opportunity to be out there. >> a lot of people make a big deal about, okay, money came from a lot of different places. only the people of iowa were allowed to vote on this issue. and iowans are very intelligent, they're very savvy. they voted those three justices off, and i think there were 76 judges on that ballot that year, only those three judges lost their job. everybody else kept their job. >> reporter: vander plaats says he does not want to see the courts politicized, doesn't want to see judges campaigning door-to-door. it was, he says, the iowa supreme court "extremist" justices who inserted politics into the system. >> if you really value a fair and impartial judiciary then you have to ask yourself, you know, what about these people who are politicizing the judicial branch and who are going after judges knowing that