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Articles about Zach Lahn
Zach Lahn Promises to Ban H-1B Workers From Iowa's Government and Universities. His Own Kansas School Asked for Three of Them.
In a TV ad, Iowa governor candidate Zach Lahn vows to 'ban H-1B visa holders from being hired by Iowa government and universities.' The private school he co-founded in Wichita petitioned for H-1B workers in 2018 and again in 2021 — with Lahn listed as the main contact.
Tom Cotton Asked for His Arkansas Ballot to Be Mailed to Virginia. Mike Rogers Campaigned From His Florida Mansion. Zach Lahn's Plane Spent More Nights in Kansas Than at His Iowa Home.
Eight Republicans on the 2026 ballot want to represent places where the paper trail — mortgages, ballots, flight records, voter rolls — keeps pointing somewhere else: Virginia, Florida, Kansas, or the next district over.
Zach Lahn Picked a Running Mate Whose Farm Is Now in Receivership. A Sheriff Has an Open Investigation, and a Co-Op's Lawyer Called His Payments 'Acts of Fraud.'
Lahn named Derek Wulf his lieutenant governor pick on June 12. A Des Moines Register investigation found eight people or businesses have sued Wulf or his company since 2023, a judge has placed his farm in receivership, and the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office has an active investigation.
Zach Lahn Calls His Kansas School the Best Model in the Country. It Owes Him and His Wife $4.5 Million.
Wonder school's expenses beat its revenue in five of six years. The Lahns propped it up with $615,000 in loans, and the debt reached $4.5 million. They are the school's officers, its only publicly disclosed trustees, and its largest creditor — a conflict Wonder has disclosed to the IRS every year since 2021.
Zach Lahn Says He Favors Term Limits and Isn't a 'Career Politician.' He Also Wants to Be Iowa's Governor 'for the Next Two Decades.'
Lahn told the Des Moines Register he likes that Iowa's governor has no term limits — then told a podcast he'd like twenty years in the job. Kansas, where he voted in three elections and owns a $2 million home, limits its governor.
Zach Lahn Calls Agribusiness a 'Cartel.' He Built His Career at the Koch Brothers' Political Shop — and Still Sits on a Koch-Funded Board.
Lahn ran the Koch group's Montana branch and fought Medicaid expansion there. Now he runs for Iowa governor as an anti-corporate populist — while Koch is one of four firms holding 84% of North America's nitrogen fertilizer capacity.
Zach Lahn Ran a School That Didn't Have to Give State Tests or Hire Licensed Teachers. Now He Wants to Police Iowa's.
The Wichita private school Lahn co-founded — financed by Chase Koch — answered to none of the rules Iowa's public schools must follow. His plan for Iowa: expand the $314 million voucher program and 'wipe out' the board that licenses teachers.
Zach Lahn Wants to End Every Childhood Vaccine Requirement in Iowa Schools — During the Worst Measles Year Since 1991
At a January debate, Iowa's Republican nominee for governor said he'd pull all COVID shots off the market in Iowa and end all childhood vaccine requirements for school enrollment. 'We cannot trust the medical establishment in Iowa anymore.'
Iowa's Own Auditor Found Privatized Medicaid Caused an 891% Jump in Illegal Denials. Zach Lahn Wants More of It.
At the Hancock County Fair, Zach Lahn defended Iowa's privatized Medicaid system and defended an attack ad built from edited TV news clips. The state audit he's brushing past found privatization drove an 891% increase in illegal denials of care.
The Wall Street Journal Caught Zach Lahn: A Kansas Operative Pretending to Be an Iowa Outsider
Zach Lahn runs for Iowa governor as a plain-spoken farmer and political outsider. The Wall Street Journal found a millionaire Koch operative who voted in Kansas as recently as 2022.