GOP attack ad backfires as woman warning about kids exposed for DUI with her kids in car

A GOP super PAC ad branding an Iowa Democrat a danger to kids has run into trouble with its own messenger.Shellie Flockhart, a Dallas Center city council member featured in the Congressional Leadership Fund spot, pleaded guilty to child endangerment and drunken driving after police found her intoxicated with two of her children in the car in 2017, The Washington Post reported Saturday."When it comes to our kids, Sarah is just plain dangerous," Flockhart says in the ad targeted at state Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott, who is trying to unseat Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) in a Des Moines-area district. The ad identifies Flockhart only by her first name.It features several women who accuse Trone Garriott of endangering kids based on her votes on transgender issues, including her vote against a bill barring students from using school bathrooms that don't match their sex at birth. The super PAC has put at...