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ZACH NUNN IS TOO EXTREME FOR IOWA
Zach Nunn has proven himself to be a far-right ideologue who will do or say anything to appeal to the most extreme factions of his party if he thinks it will benefit his political career. Nunn has attacked the officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021, and defended the extremists who violently stormed the building and tried to overturn the election. Nunn dismissed the rioters as not “a real threat to our country” and criticized the Capitol Police, even though the attack led to the deaths of five brave police officers.
And it’s not the first time that Nunn has put scoring cheap political points over doing what’s best for Iowa communities. Nunn sponsored a bill to punish cops simply for doing their jobs and keeping Iowans safe. He wants to impose fines on Iowa law enforcement agencies just for enforcing federal gun laws – which police officers warned would make it more difficult to keep the public safe.
By comparison, Congresswoman Cindy Axne has been an advocate for local police departments across Iowa and fought to ensure they receive additional federal funding.
ZACH NUNN’S DONOR- AND SPECIAL INTEREST-FIRST AGENDA
Zach Nunn’s time in public office has been marred by corrupt schemes to help advance his own political interests. As a state senator, Nunn sponsored a bill that loosened amusement park regulations at the behest of an amusement park owner who bankrolled Nunn’s campaigns. The park had a history of safety violations and worker deaths and injuries, and mere months after the legislature loosened regulations, a young boy was killed and another was put in a coma following an accident at the park.
Nunn also received campaign contributions from a lobbyist group that spread propaganda for Saudi Arabia, worked on behalf of the Saudis against the families of 9/11 victims, and helped undermine sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Crimea in 2014. He also used his government office to promote his own company and was accused of using his political connections to release the criminal record of a political opponent’s wife.
And if it wasn’t clear enough where Nunn’s priorities lie, he also supported a “flat tax” that disproportionately benefited corporations and the wealthiest one percent and risked Iowa working families’ priorities by putting quality public education at risk.
ZACH NUNN IS WRONG FOR IOWA’S WORKING FAMILIES
While Zach Nunn is focused on delivering for his donors, he has failed Iowa’s working families on the issues that matter most.
Nunn opposes the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which is investing in roads and bridges and creating good-paying jobs in Iowa’s Third Congressional District. Iowa is set to receive roughly $3.4 billion to improve highways, $432 million for bridge repairs, and millions to expand broadband internet coverage and improve water infrastructure and public transportation. During Nunn’s tenure as a state legislator, Iowa has had the most structurally deficient bridges in the nation and is among the worst states for broadband connectivity.
Nunn has repeatedly and consistently worked to make Iowans’ health care coverage less affordable and less accessible and even kick people off their health coverage entirely. Nunn was a top promoter of Iowa’s disastrous Medicaid privatization effort and continued to defend the privatization even after it failed to produce anticipated savings, cut services, delayed reimbursements, and illegally denied people care, resulting in a federal investigation from the Trump administration. Nunn also voted to tighten eligibility requirements for Medicaid, which threatened the health coverage of nearly 700,000 Iowans. He also voted to allow the sale of junk health plans that were so lacking in coverage that they could not legally be called “health insurance.” These plans skirted regulations and allowed companies to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and evade essential health benefits.
And with national reproductive rights on the line, Nunn supported banning all abortions with no exceptions, even when a woman’s life is at stake. Nunn had previously voted for “the nation’s strictest abortion ban,” which banned abortion after just 6 weeks of pregnancy – before most women even know they’re pregnant – and could have opened the door to throwing doctors in jail for providing abortion services.
PATH TO VICTORY
Iowa’s newly reconfigured Third Congressional District is one of the most competitive battleground districts in the country and battle-tested Congresswoman Cindy Axne has a clear path to winning this seat for a third term. After redistricting, this district slightly improved for Democrats by nearly 1% and Democrats maintained a strong registration advantage with 35.1 percent registered Democrats and 32.0 percent of Republicans. Under the new district lines, Axne would have overperformed the top of the ticket in both the 2020 Presidential and Senate race and she’s well positioned to win this seat again come November.
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