“It just felt icky” Some local Iowa news. Lol: Never Back Down PAC, the political action committee supporting Florida governor Ron DeSantis, has caused a stir in early voting state Iowa — but maybe not in the way they had hoped. The PAC is being accused of disrespecting the Black Hawk County Republicans by sending too many activists to the group’s participation in a local parade last weekend. The Black Hawk County Republican chair, Craig Lohmann, sent an email invitation to the campaigns of the GOP primary candidates to walk with them in the annual My Waterloo Days parade. In the email, Lohmann says that campaigns may send “a few” representatives “with shirts with names and some handouts.” He cautioned the campaigns and associated PACs to avoid giving the impression that the Black Hawk County GOP was endorsing any candidate. […] According to April Melton, a Black Hawk County GOP central committee member, the group was taken aback when the Never Back Down PAC showed up with twenty-two activists carrying triple-stacked signs and a large “DeSantis 2024” flag. “As Iowans, we take our responsibility to vet candidates very seriously. And we invite everybody to come as a general rule,” Melton explained. “But there’s a trick called astroturfing, and that is where a candidate or a candidate’s PAC will kind of descend on the county and basically fall in on the back side. And that’s what happened.” “We invited every candidate to send two or three people,” Melton continued. “[Never Back Down]…