Alex Wagner

He did learn how to climb out of his crib recently, which was, and my poor wife was alone.

This is terrifying.

Yeah, and, like, we were on the road, and she's texting me photos of how he's, like, pulled things off the shelves in the room, and I'm like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry that I'm not there.

Well, you know, that speech changed my life.

It's actually how I met my wife, Chloe.

She was living in New York at the time, writing for a feminist blog called Feministing, which is kind of this big deal, third wave feminist blog at the time.

And she was on blog duty the week that video went viral.

And she wrote up the video and the headline she put on it was, marry me, Zach Walls.

No way.

100% true story.

And, you know, I thought this was very cute and I thought she was very cute.

So I sent her an email.

I was like, you know, I won't marry you, but I'd be happy to do an interview.

And anyway, we've been together for about a decade.

We've got a two year old and, you know, it definitely changed my life.

You know, led me into advocacy for families like mine all over the state, ultimately across the country.

And into politics when I ran for the state Senate in 2018.

I was only 27 at that point.

So I was the youngest member of the Iowa Senate when I was first elected.

Seven years later, I am still the youngest member of the Iowa State Senate at 34.