Insider Political Consultant Zach Lahn Adds to Republican Primary Clown Car
DES MOINES – Following “Randy Feenstra’s weird, weak campaign roll-out,” Americans for Prosperity political consultant Zach Lahn launched a campaign for governor today. Lahn’s record clearly indicates he will just offer more of the same insider leadership that has left Iowa with a contracting economy, a growing cancer rate, and a massive budget deficit:
- Lahn has spent most of his career as a political staffer for Americans for Prosperity, a dark-money special interest group closely aligned with Governor Kim Reynolds.
- As a staffer in Montana, Lahn led the charge to oppose Medicaid expansion, a position even more extreme than Iowa’s failed medicaid privatization. Lahn promised to take “whatever action necessary to stop it.” Reversing Medicaid expansion in Iowa would rip care away from 160,000 Iowans
- Lahn has been a champion of the unaccountable private school voucher program and called auditing the $365 million program a “partisan ploy.”
- Lahn supports tariffs that have jacked up prices on Iowans and are destroying markets for Iowa agriculture, saying the tariffs are “working as intended.”
“Zach Lahn is just another member of the gang of insiders that would continue Iowa down the wrong direction,” said Iowa Democratic Party Chair Rita Hart. “Iowans need new leadership that will solve some of our toughest challenges, not more tariffs, vouchers, and health care cuts from a staffer for Kim Reynolds’ favorite special interest group.”
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