Zach Lahn

And so, when you talk about all these things that, like, are going on in the world, and in D.C., and the government, where our money's going, and all these things, it's like... there's not something more important than human life.

And when we're willing to turn our head away from that to protect industry, I mean, like, it's time for revolt, basically.

And that's like, you know, with my campaign, that's like... You know, like I said, I've been told many times.

I actually was told sitting... Gosh.

I was meeting with a...

high well with an elected official in washington dc once this is six eight months ago and in that meeting i thought he was kind of on the same page with me on some of these things and i think he is to some extent but people usually don't hear somebody talk about it with like the passion or the interest that i have i got done talking about what's going on in my state from a cancer standpoint and he literally said

if you say these things on the campaign trail, they will effing kill you."

And I laughed.

I just laughed.

But I looked around at the people with them, and they were laughing.

And look, that could be figurative, of course, likely.

But they know.

They know the power these lobbies have.

And so when you look at what's at stake is the life of my people...

You know, like when you go into a gas station in Iowa and you see a collection jar for a kid with leukemia, or maybe two or three now, and all the while you'll hear a politician say something like, in Iowa, they say this all the time, well, we need to figure out what's causing it.

We don't know what's causing it, what's causing the cancer rate.

Can't figure it out.

And one thing they mentioned, and I kept hearing this, and again, it was being spouted off without any research done to it.

And I thought, well, what's the situation here?

They kept saying, well, yeah, we have one of the highest levels of radon in the country.