Zach Lahn

It's provided for the greatest alleviation and suffering ever known to mankind our culture has.

Great prosperity.

And if you look back at the principles of what they came to do, it wasn't that they came here to get rich.

They came here for the basics of freedom.

And now much of that is being taken away.

And so that's why I'm in this race.

I often ask myself, is there room for people in politics who still actually care?

It's a question that comes up often.

And here's what I love.

I'm not out there talking about my opponents in a negative way at all.

I won't do it.

That's not why I'm here.

I'm not out trying to make people afraid that Iowa's going to become the next Minnesota if we don't do X, Y, or Z. I'm here... What's wrong with Minnesota?

If you're a daycare provider, nothing.

Oh, shit.

You know, I just believe that my job, what God's calling me to do in this time in my life is to tell a better story about what we could be as a state, to bring people together about that.

And I will tell you, when I'm out on the campaign trail, and I'm new to all this, like, I don't... I've never done this before.

I don't have a script that I'm going off of.

I have a couple key points that I'm really passionate about.

But what I try to do is just tell the truth to people and not worry about what these big companies, lobbyists, or special interests are going to think about me.