Tea Party candidate Rich Iott is under fire for a 2009 recruitment video for the Wiking German Re-enactment Group in Ohio. According to gossips, Iott hangs with this group spare time. They get together on weekends and holidays and recreate history. Lott released this statement

They have to take it in context. There's reenactors out there who do everything. You couldn't do Civil War re-enacting if somebody didn't play the role of the Confederates. [This] is something that's definitely way in the past. ... [I hope voters] take it in context and see it for what it is, an interest in World War II history. And that's strictly all.