I guess I missed whatever it is that you are talking about. What John Wayne thing? She said she was born in Waterloo, Iowa, and wanted to restore the American Spirit of Waterloo's most famous resident John Wayne.
She was thinking of THE John Wayne, born in Winterset, Iowa, who never lived in Waterloo.
Waterloo's most famous resident was John Wayne 
Politics 101: never associate yourself with an evil clown
It now seems that all this broohaha is a media creation. As I understand it, John Wayne was conceived in Waterloo, Iowa but his parents left before he was born. The John Wayne Gacye think is a media doing. At least that is what I have heard and read.