Zach Lahn

50% in the last 20 years.

And so my message to the people of Iowa is do not get distracted away from the things that actually matter, that really matter.

Your neighbors dying in that way, your veterans dying in that way,

all while we're being distracted by this, you know, tweak in a regulation, or here we're gonna get a little bit lower tax rates.

You know, I tell people, we have the fastest rate of new cancer in the history of human civilization, and our kids are leaving our state faster than 46 other states.

If your kids are leaving and your people are dying, you're not winning.

That's not winning.

And so...

I look at my campaign at the four things and those two things are two of the top things that I'm focused on.

And what dumbfounds me is that I'm not joined by a chorus of people that are just like, of politicians that are just like, yes, finally, we've been waiting for somebody else to talk about this because they're not talking about it.

You know, I found out that Iowa's kids are leaving the state at a rate faster than 46 other states.

I found that out because I was curious as to what our rate was.

And I started looking it up and I found out in 2025, an extensive study was done on this.

And I have actually had politicians in the state reach out to me and say, where did you get that information?

I'm like, it's publicly available.

And it maybe is the number one stat you could possibly track.

as an elected official are the people that are growing up here wanting to stay or leave.

And I'm having to bring this up in this way, which I'm happy to do, but it's like... we need people to focus on the big issues, and that's the reason I'm running.

This is why I go, something as simple as knowing who put something into a piece of legislation, because I know it's not the legislators.

I know this stuff's not coming from them.