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Zach Nunn Faces More Scrutiny for Ad Featuring Out-of-District Conservative Political Operative From Organization That Gave His Campaigns $14,000

Zach Nunn is facing more blowback after he attempted to pass off a conservative political operative – whose employer’s “affiliated political arm” gave Nunn’s campaigns $14,000 – as simply an everyday “Iowa mother” in a new taxpayer-funded ad.

And she doesn’t even live in IA-03!

DCCC Spokesperson Katie Smith:
“Zach Nunn is relying on an out-of-district political operative who bankrolled his campaigns to defend his vote that will raise Iowans’ costs while giving tax breaks to billionaires. Iowans can’t trust a word that comes out of Nunn’s mouth.” 

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  • A recent political ad released by U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) features a conservative political operative portraying herself just as an “Iowa mom.”
  • The ad prominently features a woman named Sarah Curry, who is portrayed as an average Iowa mother. In the ad, Curry praises Nunn for voting for President Donald Trump’s tax cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill, which are projected to disproportionately benefit the highest earners in the country.
  • The ad fails to mention that Curry works as a research director for Iowans for Tax Relief Foundation, a conservative political organization. The organization advocates for “fiscal conservatism” and tax policies like those featured in the One Big Beautiful Bill that traditionally benefit the rich. In 2024, Curry wrote a release in favor of extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.
  • According to Iowa’s campaign disclosure database, the Iowans for Tax Relief political action committee has also contributed at least $14,000 to Nunn’s campaigns dating back to 2014.
  • According to her company bio, Curry also does not live in Nunn’s district. Her family owns a home in Glenwood, Iowa, located in the state’s 4th Congressional District. Nunn represents Iowa’s 3rd District.
Iowa Capital Dispatch: Nunn touts ‘big, beautiful’ law’s tax cuts in new ad, prompting Democrat criticism

  • U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn launched an ad campaign featuring testimony from an Iowan who said the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation package helped her family through tax cuts — but Democrats have criticized the ad for featuring a person who does not live in Nunn’s district.
  • Nunn said he met Curry when she testified before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee in 2024, when the GOP-led panel held a hearing at the Iowa State Fair with Iowans who spoke largely in favor of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
  • But Democratic organizers say the ad does not disclose crucial information about Curry. Curry works as the research director for Iowans for Tax Relief, an organization that advocates for tax cuts. The organization has an affiliated Political Action Committee that contributed $14,000 to Nunn’s state legislative campaigns between 2014 and 2020, according to data from the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board.
  • Curry also lives in Glenwood — a city in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District, represented by U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra — and is not a direct constituent of Nunn.
  • “Zach Nunn couldn’t find anyone in Iowa’s 3rd district to defend the Big, Ugly Law, so he found a paid political operative from an organization that’s given Nunn’s campaigns thousands of dollars to lie about his bill,” Katie Smith, spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said in a news release. “Iowans see through Nunn’s lies and will hold him accountable for voting to raise Iowans’ costs so he can give tax breaks to billionaires.”

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