CEDAR RAPIDS — Iowa Republicans are keeping up their attack on Democratic gubernatorial candidate Fred Hubbell for what they call his “consistent record of bettering himself while leaving Iowans behind.”The Republican Party of Iowa brought its “Fired by Fred” campaign to Cedar Rapids on Tuesday, with party Chairman Jeff Kaufmann hammering the former department store executive for putting profits and his own compensation ahead of employees of the Hubbell-owned Younkers stores in the 1980s and 1990s.The party has mounted a FiredByFred.com campaign tied to decisions they attribute to Hubbell to close some stores in the Younkers chain, lay off employees and cut wages and benefits.Hubbell’s record, Kaufmann said, is one of “putting profits over people before selling off the company to get a good deal for himself.” Hubbell, he charged, shrank wages and benefits while increasing his compensation by 61 percent and shifted $60 million of revenue from Younkers to Equitable Life and Casualty, also owned by the Hubbell family.

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