When Jana Rhoads, a mother in her mid-forties, approached GOP Rep. Tom Latham, he and his two staffers looked a little tense. The group was stuck at a table inside a Hy-Vee supermarket in Ankeny, Iowa with nowhere to go.
And no lawmaker in the midst of what could be the closest congressional election in the country likes to be ambushed by a constituent while a reporter is around.