| Tomorrow, JD Vance will campaign with failed politician Zach Nunn, who has been a reliable rubberstamp for every Washington policy hurting Iowans.
Nunn promised Iowa families he’d make life easier. But instead, Nunn became just another DC politician who, when push comes to shove, doesn’t stand up for Iowans.
While Nunn has failed to lower costs or tackle corruption because he’s too busy following his Washington bosses’ marching orders, Sarah Trone Garriott will put Iowans first and work for families like her own.
Get the Facts on Zach Nunn:
- After promising to reject cuts to Medicaid, Nunn voted for the largest Medicaid cuts in history – decimating rural health care, raising prices for families, and making Iowa’s rural health care crisis worse.
- Nunn said it was a “myth” that his Medicaid cuts would force hospitals to close. Now, hospitals and clinics – including the MercyOne clinics in Ottumwa and South Des Moines – are closing down, reducing services, laying off staff, and raising costs thanks to Nunn’s Medicaid cuts.
- Nunn supports repealing the Affordable Care Act. He failed to extend the ACA tax credits, and now tens of thousands of Iowans will be forced to pay health care premiums that are skyrocketing or lose care altogether.
- Nunn fully backs the reckless tariffs hurting Iowa’s farmers and raising prices for everyone, even saying we’re “winning” from tariffs.
- Nunn has gone totally Washington. When push comes to shove, he doesn’t stand up for Iowans – because he doesn’t even care enough to meet with them face to face.
- Zach Nunn has not held a single public town hall since being elected to represent Iowans. Nunn called town halls “taxpayer-funded protest event[s]” – insulting the Iowans who deserve to hear from their elected representative.
- Nunn tried to ditch IA-03 and run in *both* the governor’s race and the IA-04 race, before being put in his place by Trump and not having the guts to even stand up for himself. Embarrassing for a guy so dedicated to climbing the political ladder.
- Every time it counts, Nunn sides with his DC party bosses, not Iowans.
Get the Facts on Sarah Trone Garriott:
- Sarah Trone Garriott is a mom, a Lutheran minister, and a State Senator who is driven by her faith to serve her neighbors: as a hospital chaplain, a parish pastor, a food pantry leader, and in the Iowa State Senate. Whether it’s…
- Holding regular town halls and listening to Iowans as a legislator
- Taking her church’s directory to knock on every member of her congregation’s door
- Being there for children and families in their hardest times as a hospital chaplain…
- Sarah’s life has been about serving her neighbors: and now, she is running for Congress because Washington is completely broken and Zach Nunn is part of the problem. Sarah knows what Iowa families are going through and how the corrupt politicians looking out for themselves are making things harder.
- Sarah has always worked for only Iowans: in the State Senate, she pushed for ethics reforms like banning stock trading and instituting term limits, worked across the aisle to cut taxes, and voted to lower prescription drug costs and cap insulin prices.
- In Congress, Sarah will keep up that work to make life less expensive for families like her own: push to undo the Medicaid cuts and make health care more affordable, ban stock trading, take on corruption, and work to protect Social Security and Medicare.
Read more about who Sarah is:
- Associated Press: “In polite company or otherwise, the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott is very comfortable talking to people about religion and politics. She delivered an impassioned sermon last Sunday, encouraging the people in the pews at Grace Lutheran Church to welcome strangers as Jesus did. The day before, she campaigned for Congress in rural Iowa, decrying Medicaid cuts and their impact on people’s access to health care.”
- Des Moines Register: Sarah Trone Garriott holds roundtable discussion on rural healthcare
- Iowa Capital Dispatch: Iowa Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott criticizes Nunn for not holding public town halls
- Des Moines Register: “Sarah Trone Garriott…criticized incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn of failing to deliver for Iowans. ‘Gas prices are skyrocketing across Iowa and across the country, but today’s temporary waiver only highlights Zach Nunn’s failure to deliver year-round E15,’ Trone Garriott said in a statement. ‘Zach Nunn is all talk and no action, and Iowans deserve better than his broken promises and sorry excuses.’”
- Iowa News Now: “Two Iowa Democrats are teaming up to introduce a couple bills to impose term limits on lawmakers and forbid them from trading stocks while in office… State Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott (D-West Des Moines) said in a press release Thursday the legislation is meant to shakeup the political establishment and restore public trust and integrity in state government by ‘preventing power from becoming too deeply entrenched.’”
- Roll Call: “In an Iowa swing district, Democrat Sarah Trone Garriott recounts how her work as a hospital chaplain and a Lutheran minister set her on a path to public service. ‘Faith is about how we live together, and so is politics,’ Trone Garriott said in an interview. ‘There is a sense that your politics and … your faith are private and personal, and you need to keep them separate. But your faith … shapes who you are and how you engage in the world.’”
- 19th News: “I was looking for a way forward. How can I have hope in this moment? What can I do next? Because whenever I see a problem, my response is, how can I make things better?” Trone Garriott said. Trone Garriott said her district voted for Trump, but it also voted for her. She said it’s important to be open about faith…”
- MS NOW: “Garriott, who has served as a chaplain and works for a food pantry network, told MS NOW there is a need for me to bring my whole self to my civic life. And truly, that’s what the Christian faith is all about.’”
- Religion News Service: “Navigating difficult issues, being in relationship with people who see things different than me, trying to work through conflict together, loving people that you disagree with — those are things that I bring because of that experience,” [Sarah Trone Garriott] said.
- Reuters: “Sarah Trone Garriott, an Iowa state senator and Lutheran minister, has never shied away from putting faith at the center of her political campaigns. ‘It is really important that people of faith speak to issues in the public realm, because faith is about how we live together,’ Trone Garriott told Reuters. ‘So is politics.’’
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