Iowa’s GOP Candidate for Governor Might Not Live in Iowa
Critics cite 37 flights to Wichita and four Strava bike rides as evidence that Zach Lahn kept close Kansas ties after moving to Iowa.
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'Hilarious' evidence piles up to show GOP gubernatorial candidate lives in another state
Iowa has been reliably red for more than a decade, but the GOP’s nominee for governor can’t seem to shake questions about whether he actually lives there.Zach Lahn, a conservative ex-lobbyist and businessman, moved from Kansas to Iowa in 2024 and pulled off a big upset in this year’s GOP primary, but Ed Kilgore wrote for New York Magazine’s Intelligencer that he faces a serious challenge in winning the trust of his new state's voters to become t…
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New York MagazineIowa’s GOP Candidate for Governor Might Not Live in Iowa
Ed Kilgore: “The term carpetbagger was originally applied to Northerners who moved South after the Civil War to launch political careers under the protection of military Reconstruction; it referred to the hastily procured bags manufactured from carpet scraps the transplants allegedly used. More recently, the term has been applied to politicians who conveniently relocate themselves […]
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