Zach Lahn

Holy shit.

Your listeners can go on and Google this and you'll find stories of like a woman, this is last year, maybe two years ago, who didn't know that jumped in and her skin got all red.

Like it was just, you know, burning.

But we have...

lakes in Iowa with such high levels of nitrates and products that swimming is barred in them.

In Iowa, the Eden of the United States.

This is what I go back to.

I think when people look at Iowa, they think of like the Norman Rockwell painting.

of like the cows on the hill and you have this and the beautiful stream.

And you know, when General Albert Lee was coming through Iowa, when they're first on their trek to going up, they're actually going up the Des Moines River.

When he was coming through Iowa, he actually said that in all of his travels, and mind you, he'd been all over the country at this point, he'd never seen a place as beautiful as this.

That's what we came from.

Now Iowa is the most terraformed place, I believe, on the face of the earth, meaning we've done more to our landscape.

So when I talk about the water quality issue, it's a hot button issue.

But I've talked to developers in Des Moines who've said, I can't even sell a house if I don't pre-install a reverse osmosis system in here.

And I think when I talk about this in the campaign, I just get back to this.

I believe that Iowa families are just looking for something that they can count on.

Clean water is one of them.

Having a safe community is another one.

An education system that's not bottom half.