Iowa Republican Rancher Concerned with Zach Lahn’s Out-of-State Land Ownership, Residency
Republican Rancher Shanen Ebersole: “Just because you own 180 acres of Iowa farm ground doesn’t make you an Iowan”
DES MOINES – New reporting from CNN spotlights carpetbagger and career political operative Zach Lahn’s living situation in Kansas — and how it will be a major liability for him in the governor’s race with “midterm wild card” voters.
Republican rancher Shanen Ebersole told CNN that Lahn owning farmland in Iowa while keeping his home, “his business, and his family” in Kansas is a “glaring, bold-faced issue.” Ebersole called out-of-state ownership a “critical” problem facing small businesses and landowners like her, and told Lahn that owning “acres of Iowa farm ground doesn’t make you an Iowan.”
Lahn has hypocritically criticized out-of-state land ownership on the campaign trail, even as he “has actually been living in Kansas for years.” Public records show that “he has never claimed any property in Iowa as his primary residence” and “regularly flies in and out of Wichita” to attend campaign events in Iowa. Lahn has repeatedly been asked whether he expects Iowans to bankroll his commute home to Kansas as governor and refuses to “comment on whether he would travel or use taxpayer resources to do so if elected.”
From Iowa Democratic Party spokesperson Terra Hernandez:
“Alarm bells should be going off for Kansas carpetbagger and career political operative Zach Lahn because Iowans see right through his lies about where he lives. Lahn is asking Iowans to elect a part-time governor — it’s completely disqualifying and it’s a major issue voters won’t forget in November.”
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