The first ladies of Iowa and California have met. John Culver, Iowa First Lady Mari Culver’s father-in-law, was a close friend of Ted Kennedy, the uncle of California First Lady Maria Shriver. In 2000, for example, Mari & Chet Culver went to a party Maria Shriver threw when the Democratic National Convention was held in L.A. The two women now have something else in common: they’ve been caught violating a law which their husbands signed into law. [99counties.org]