IA-GOV: The Iowa GOP's surprise nominee for governor sure spends a lot of time in Kansas

State Auditor Rob Sand, the Democrats’ nominee in the race for Iowa’s open governorship, is already going on the attack to blast his newly minted Republican opponent as a “part-time Iowan.”

“An economy near the bottom, but number one in rising cancer rates,” begins the narrator of Sand’s new TV spot. “Turning Iowa around will be a full-time job, but Zach Lahn isn’t even a full-time Iowan.”

Lahn lives, voted, and hit it rich in Kansas as a political insider, working for billionaires and special interests, commuting to Iowa on his private plane,” she continues as viewers see footage of Lahn flying what’s presumably his aircraft. “Lahn says, if elected, he’d ‘be in Iowa as much as humanly possible.’ But you can’t be a full-time Governor if you’re a part-time Iowan.”

Just a few weeks before Tuesday’s primary, the Des Moines Register reported that Lahn, a wealthy investor, had flown from Iowa to Wichita, Kansas, in a plane he owns (and sometimes flies) 37 times since Oct. 1—an average of once every six days.




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