Zach Lahn
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It's like we have two amazing assets in our state.
We have our children and we have our farmland.
We have some of the best in the world.
to give them over to $100 billion multinational tech companies and then pay them, basically, to do it?
It doesn't make sense.
And here's, going back to what you said earlier, voters know this.
When I talk to them about Syngenta getting refundable tax credits from the state, I don't care how many high-quality jobs they say they're creating, the voters don't want this.
They don't want to support a Chinese company.
And they want to support Iowa companies.
So this goes back to just, we've taken our eye off the ball.
Our politicians aren't paying attention to the right things.
And I believe they're not asking the right questions about what will these changes do to our community?
And they do not care about the culture of our state and our people.
And, you know, they have donation limits to run for those seats, right?
Well, that just puts them in such an advantage.
I actually think the limits put them in an advantage in some ways because, you know, and I'm not saying take donation limits or not have donation limits.
We don't have any in my race, which is part of the reason I can go elsewhere.
Because as you could probably imagine, my message within the big agriculture community of donors isn't exactly popular.
Well, I'll bet.
And so I'm going elsewhere to raise funds from people who want to see...