Iowans Call Out Zach Lahn For Running to Continue Kim Reynolds’ Failed Legacy
DES MOINES – Ahead of the Iowa GOP Lincoln Dinner on Friday, over 40 Iowans put Kansas carpetbagger and career political operative Zach Lahn on blast for running to continue Kim Reynolds’ failed legacy. As Lahn “cast himself as the heir to” Reynolds’ failures and “doubled down on his support for Reynolds,” Iowans called out the last decade of one-party rule that has crushed the economy, shortchanged our schools, and made it harder to access health care.
What Iowans are watching and reading:
WHO13: Iowans call out Zach Lahn for promising to continue Kim Reynolds’ legacy
- With signs and chants, Democrats rallied outside the downtown Hilton on Friday night criticizing the Republican fundraiser taking place inside.
Iowa Capital Dispatch: Protestors criticize Lahn
- Before the event, more than 40 protesters gathered outside of the Hilton, waving signs that called out Lahn for publicly supporting Reynolds’s job as governor.
- Lahn did not directly respond to the protesters during his speech, but doubled down on his support for Reynolds, thanking her for her service.
Des Moines Register: Democrats say Iowans want to ‘turn the page’ on GOP trifecta
- GOP governor nominee Zach Lahn cast himself as the heir to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ conservative legacy, pledging to keep Iowa growing as Republicans celebrated the outgoing governor … Lahn said he considered himself to be “standing on the shoulders” of those who came before him.
- More than three-dozen Iowa Democrats protested outside the hotel against the state’s direction under Republican leadership, with Iowa Democratic Party spokesperson Terra Hernandez saying in a statement Lahn would “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,” Hernandez said. “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.”
- About 40 people stood outside the building protesting the event and the Republican candidates.
- “We need a change in Iowa,” said Deborah Gadlin, of Des Moines. “We don’t want to be number one in cancer. We don’t want to be last in economic growth, we don’t want to have terrible education, we don’t want to have water that you can’t drink … We don’t need a Kim Reynolds 2.0.”
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