Zach Lahn Should Go Back to Kansas

Zach isn’t sure whether he’s in Kansas anymore!

@jackmhoffm27421 I welcome Haitians into our American family. You can fuck off with this racist bullshit.

@Kansan4IAGov From the same people that say Haitians who just got off a plane as refugees are just as American as you and me.

Yup

“Unity does not mean uniformity”? Empty rhetoric is all Lahn has.

@America19562136 You must have missed the latest reporting. Sand’s donations are mostly small and come from Iowans. No one denies that Sand has big money backing, but Lahn has nothing but dark money and PAC funding (and not even that much of it). iowapublicradio.org/political-news…

@Kansan4IAGov Dawg 💀 JD Pritzker, Gavin Newsom, and George Soros are among the largest donors to Robs campaign. The hypocrisy of the left literally has no bounds!

Oh, look! Zach’s not in Iowa because he’s hobnobbing with the worst of the worst. Trump still has no idea who Zach is (he’s not in any of those pictures) but he got facetuned by Callista Gingrich!

@America19562136 We made fun of him because Iowans aren’t giving him money. He can beg establishment Republicans in DC all he wants, but he can’t claim that he’s an outsider when he’s on his knees.

@Kansan4IAGov So u guys make fun of him for getting no funding, then when he goes to the Republican establishment to meet with people to get campaign funding, you guys also make fun of him. With democrats, you truly can never win them over, they have no idea how anything works

@KJ_Parker1 @Nonpartisnan @LahnHQ @ChrisJones4Iowa @ShawnRyan762 By long form, do you mean books? This is Jones from 2023 after writing a blog about all the issues you cite for years.

I like them both. Maybe I'd need to see more long-form with Chris, but from what I've seen so far, Lahn's knowledge is just more rounded. He's talked in depth about regenerative agriculture and conservation, water quality, glyphosate and other chemicals links to cancer, Big Ag monopolies, foreign/out-of-state land ownership, how pervasive lobbying is etc.

You mean the issue Zach has talked about more than any other in the eight months he's now been a candidate for Governor and provided the most comprehensive plan to solve?

@KJ_Parker1 @Nonpartisnan @LahnHQ @ChrisJones4Iowa Sure, the Iowa Podcast is an expectation for candidates, but that answer evades the purpose of my question. Before he won the nomination, how did Zach engage podcasts across the political spectrum? What non-rightwing outlets did he appear on?

@Kansan4IAGov @Nonpartisnan @LahnHQ @ChrisJones4Iowa He's been on the Iowa podcast. Start there.

@KJ_Parker1 @Nonpartisnan @LahnHQ @ChrisJones4Iowa @ShawnRyan762 Such a claim is also why I don’t trust Lahn. He acts like he is the smartest person in the state, and only he can fix the problem. Good people have been focusing on these issues for a long time. He would do well to listen first, especially because his time in Iowa has been short.

@KJ_Parker1 @Nonpartisnan @LahnHQ @ChrisJones4Iowa @ShawnRyan762 Jones is a research scientist who has been working on water quality issues in Iowa for 40 years. To claim that Lahn, a hobby farmer with limited time in the state and farming, has more knowledge than Jones is just silly.

@KJ_Parker1 @Nonpartisnan @LahnHQ @ChrisJones4Iowa What are the non-rightwing podcasts that Lahn has appeared on?

@Kansan4IAGov @Nonpartisnan @LahnHQ @ChrisJones4Iowa He’s been on a ton of podcasts. Some of the hosts I agree with and like, others, not so much. My information ecosphere is extremely diverse, and I judge each person on their own merits, not by who’s doing the interview. I find Lahn to be sincere and highly informed.

@Nonpartisnan @KJ_Parker1 @LahnHQ @ChrisJones4Iowa @ShawnRyan762 Thanks for your reply! I agree with your last paragraph.

I think it’s hard to trust any politician. I saw him on the @ShawnRyan762 show and his message resonated with me. I would love to see Iowa get rid of the chemical warfare being played on on our land and go back to regenerative organic farming, small farms that produce more than 2 crops and restore the soil with the Tallgrass Prairie

@KJ_Parker1 @CelDoors @Nonpartisnan @LahnHQ @ChrisJones4Iowa But Lahn’s life work supported an organization that led to the problems he’s campaigning on. There is a reason he doesn’t talk frankly about this part of his life. He skips from Iowa high school to Iowa farmer (and sometimes mentions the school). It’s very troubling.

Lahn’s past work around 2015 with the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity focused on limited government, lower taxes, and free-market policies.... principles he still supports. Today, Lahn is actively fighting Big Ag pollution, and his campaign is neither aligned with nor funded by Koch.

@KJ_Parker1 @Nonpartisnan @LahnHQ @ChrisJones4Iowa Sand’s wife’s company is a legitimate concern, but Sand came out against immunity for pesticides in April. I don’t know why he hesitated on the Iowa podcast when it’s the first bullet point of his health plan. robsand.com/news/the-truer…

I've been following Lahn for a while and have watched him in many long-form interviews discuss pesticides, regenerative agriculture, conservation, and how corporate monopolies take advantage of Iowa farmers. He was the first candidate for governor, before Sand and every Republican, to come out hard and strong against liability protections for pesticide companies, while the others skirted the issue. When Sand was asked about it on the Iowa Podcast, he refused to answer the question directly. Only after Lahn went on the same show and stated clearly and forcefully that he would not support those liability protections did Sand issue a statement saying the same thing. Sand’s wife is CEO of a company that is deeply tied to Big Ag and has had repeated wastewater violations, including as recently as 2026. That’s where much of Sand’s campaign money comes from, and he’s not going to do a damn thing about Big Ag pollution.

@KJ_Parker1 @Nonpartisnan @LahnHQ @ChrisJones4Iowa His podcast appearances are one of the reasons I don’t trust Lahn. I don’t know much about Shawn Ryan, but Jordan Peterson and Tucker Carlson are propagandists. Lahn keeps company with rightwing yappers. They talk a lot, but their knowledge and experience are slim.

@Kansan4IAGov @Nonpartisnan @LahnHQ @ChrisJones4Iowa Then you've been sucked in by the propaganda and haven't been paying very close attention: youtu.be/0ElpMYlqfO4?si…

@Nonpartisnan @KJ_Parker1 @LahnHQ @ChrisJones4Iowa Everything about Lahn screams rightwing political hack to me, but if he worked with Jones, that would be different. However, nothing about his campaign or his biography suggests to me that he won’t side with Naig and continue the bad ideas that have gotten Iowa nowhere. 2)

@Nonpartisnan @KJ_Parker1 @LahnHQ @ChrisJones4Iowa Sincere question: Why do you trust Lahn? He worked so many years for the Koch brothers, who are a big part of the problem, and since the nomination, he quickly cozied up to Iowa Republicans, who have spent years dismissing the gravity of the problem. 1)

Nate is yet another Rob-publican, and he rightly points out: 10 years of one-party control has left Iowa in a tough spot. It's time for change. All are welcome on Team Sand.

Further evidence that Zach Lahn is terminally online. He can’t hold town halls to answer questions from all Iowans, but he can thank the nepo baby of an extremist.

Zach’s campaign won’t even communicate with his supporters!