Ahead of Lincoln Dinner, A Reminder That Zach Lahn is Running to Continue Kim Reynolds’ Failed Legacy
Lahn to Reynolds: “Thank you for building something that I can now take the mantle of and run with … it couldn’t have been done without the work that had been done from you and the legislature.”
DES MOINES – Ahead of the Iowa GOP Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines, here’s a reminder that Kansas carpetbagger and career political operative Zach Lahn is running to continue Kim Reynolds’ failed legacy.
Lahn has said he’s “grateful” for everything that Reynolds — the most unpopular governor in the country — has done and pledged to continue her failed status quo. Lahn even said he believes Reynolds “did the right thing” by landing Iowa with a nearly $1.4 billion budget deficit to fund tax breaks for powerful insiders and special interests, dismissing concerns by claiming the economy “will rebound.”
Lahn is apparently “grateful” for the last decade of one-party rule that’s made Iowa:
- The number one state for new cancer growth,
- 27th in the country for education — a new low — and the ninth-worst state for teachers,
- The state with the second highest number of farm bankruptcies,
- 44th for physicians per capita,
- Last in the country for OB-GYNS per capita,
- 44th in the country and last in the Midwest for hourly wages.
Lahn also chose state Rep. Derek Wulf as his running mate — a Big Pesticide insider who voted for the worst parts of Reynolds’ disastrous agenda, including unaccountable private school vouchers, gutting the auditor’s office, and against water quality monitors.
From Iowa Democratic Party spokesperson Terra Hernandez:
“Kansas carpetbagger and career political operative Zach Lahn is running to give Iowans four more years of Kim Reynolds’ failed status quo. A Lahn-Wulf administration would mean more economic decline, underfunded public schools, record cancer growth rates, and higher costs. Iowans are ready to turn the page on the last decade of one-party rule, and it’s why they will send Lahn packing back to Kansas in November.”
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