TIMELINE: Zach Lahn’s Lies About Living in Kansas
DES MOINES – Zach Lahn’s lies about living in Kansas are in the spotlight less than one week from Election Day after the New York Times reported that he had his 2024 general election ballot mailed to him in Kansas.
Lahn has spent his entire campaign lying about living in Kansas. He voted in Kansas in 2018, 2020, and 2022, and was recently caught hiding his flights to Kansas while skipping campaign events in Iowa.
Zach Lahn’s property, voting, and flight records show he lives in Kansas:
2017: Lahn moved from Montana to Kansas to start an unaccredited private school, making roughly $250,000 a year as a paid political consultant.
2018: Lahn voted in Kansas elections.
2020: Lahn voted in Kansas elections.
2021: Lahn waived the Iowa Homestead Tax Credit in 2021 when he refinanced his Belle Plaine farmhouse, “a sign that [he did] not consider the Iowa property to be their primary home.”
2022: Lahn voted in Kansas elections.
2023: Lahn claimed he made the “full move” to Iowa. Meanwhile, Lahn’s gun was stolen from the grounds of his private school in Kansas.
July 2024: Lahn’s family took out a primary mortgage on his Kansas home.
October 2024: Lahn registered to vote in Iowa “just in time to qualify to run for office in 2026” and had his 2024 Iowa general election ballot mailed to him in Kansas.
2025: Lahn’s Strava fitness account caught him logging multiple bike rides in Kansas “just months before he launched his Iowa gubernatorial bid.”
March 13, 2026: Lahn flew his private plane “from Wichita to Des Moines to submit his paperwork for his nomination at the State Capitol.”
May 14, 2026: Lahn was exposed for flying his private plane to Kansas and said he would try to “be in Iowa as much as humanly possible” if elected.
June 25, 2026: Lahn enrolled in a secret FAA program to hide his frequent flights to Kansas while skipping campaign events in Iowa.
July 2026: Lahn “put his name to 15 promotional emails sent over a 15-day period to parents of prospective pre-K-12 students” of the Wonder School in Kansas, continuing to hold a job as president of a school two states away while running for governor in Iowa.
July 10, 2026: Lahn refused to disclose how much his flights to Kansas will cost Iowa taxpayers if elected, saying “it’s something I haven’t even thought about yet.”
August 30, 2026: Lahn skipped a bipartisan campaign event in Iowa while flying to Kansas, which his campaign called a “scheduling conflict.”
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