Josh Turek

And you go in these rural communities and they've lost, their pharmacies are gone.

They've lost their grocery stores.

Their healthcare clinics are closing, particularly in the rural areas.

Their schools are closing.

We closed 16 schools in the last three years in Iowa, almost all in the rural communities.

And you go down their main streets, it looks like a vacuum's come through there.

And now we're leading the nation in farm foreclosures.

These are folks that are waking up and saying, enough is enough.

The state and the country needs change.

And I think that they're going to be willing to vote for someone like me, a common sense prairie populist.

That is correct.

Yeah.

Iowa, we're the only state with a growing cancer rate.

We have the second highest rates of cancer behind Kentucky, and we are quickly catching Kentucky.

This is an issue that I actually think day by day is growing in terms of there's not a single town hall that I have done where I haven't heard this issue about addressing the cancer rates and addressing the water quality issues.

And it is.

There is a direct correlation to what we're seeing with the nitrate levels, with the pesticide levels.

that is leading unquestionably to the cancer rates.

And certainly this is an issue that has touched my life personally.

I lost my grandma to pancreatic cancer.