Leila Staton Is Done Waiting for Iowa to Get Its Shit Together

And thank you again to Layla Statton in House District 54, Canada up there, for joining us on Sage Against the Machine.

Like I said earlier, I know her and her mother, Heather.

They are big-time advocates.

When I was campaigning up there, they were everywhere all the time, doing all they possibly can, working their asses off.

So, Really, really glad to have her on and appreciate her for joining us.

But we've got to move on to our next couple segments here on the Sage Against Machine, a little bit shorter segments.

But the first one I wanted to get to talk about was in Iowa politics, especially news came out recently.

According to Iowa starting line reporter, Zach – I think it was Zach Orion Smith who did it, but it was Iowa starting line regardless.

Reports that text show that Zach Lane's campaign was warned about running mate Derek Wolf's financial troubles on the day Wolf was selected.

The report describes debt and legal disputes and raises questions about what the campaign knew and when.

And the reporting does not itself prove wrongdoing.

However, it is...

I wanted to bring this up, Dr.

Bob, and I put this in the rundown as quoted dumbassery because I know you've had a field day talking about this.

But what was your thoughts? You sent me the text message with the story, but what were your thoughts when you heard about this? And then what are your thoughts in regards to it? I'll just say my first thing off the bat was Zach Lane and his team need to do a better job of vetting people.

Before they announced people, that was the first thing that came across to me.

But what are your thoughts?

Well, first, we have to thank reporting first by Laura Bell on exposing that Zach Lane had all of these unpaid debts and that there was a criminal investigation that his farm was in deep financial problems.

And so she first reported it.

And the Lane campaign tried to just talk about this as being a normal refinancing, no big deal.

And Tyler Jett dug in even deeper for the Des Moines Register, and he got some records and people to talk, neighbors that Derek Wolf owed money to.

And then Zachary Oren Smith dug in even deeper.

And he somebody shared texts with him that say that the that Zach Lane and everybody, you know, knew about it, that the campaign knew about his financial problems.

And apparently they just decided to go ahead.

And and you have to be able and it's just very interesting.

And thank you again to Layla Statton in House District 54, Canada up there, for joining us on Sage Against the Machine.

Like I said earlier, I know her and her mother, Heather.

They are big-time advocates.

When I was campaigning up there, they were everywhere all the time, doing all they possibly can, working their asses off.

So, Really, really glad to have her on and appreciate her for joining us.

But we've got to move on to our next couple segments here on the Sage Against Machine, a little bit shorter segments.

But the first one I wanted to get to talk about was in Iowa politics, especially news came out recently.

According to Iowa starting line reporter, Zach – I think it was Zach Orion Smith who did it, but it was Iowa starting line regardless.

Reports that text show that Zach Lane's campaign was warned about running mate Derek Wolf's financial troubles on the day Wolf was selected.

The report describes debt and legal disputes and raises questions about what the campaign knew and when.

And the reporting does not itself prove wrongdoing.

However, it is...

I wanted to bring this up, Dr.

Bob, and I put this in the rundown as quoted dumbassery because I know you've had a field day talking about this.

But what was your thoughts? You sent me the text message with the story, but what were your thoughts when you heard about this? And then what are your thoughts in regards to it? I'll just say my first thing off the bat was Zach Lane and his team need to do a better job of vetting people.

Before they announced people, that was the first thing that came across to me.

But what are your thoughts?

Well, first, we have to thank reporting first by Laura Bell on exposing that Zach Lane had all of these unpaid debts and that there was a criminal investigation that his farm was in deep financial problems.

And so she first reported it.

And the Lane campaign tried to just talk about this as being a normal refinancing, no big deal.

And Tyler Jett dug in even deeper for the Des Moines Register, and he got some records and people to talk, neighbors that Derek Wolf owed money to.

And then Zachary Oren Smith dug in even deeper.

And he somebody shared texts with him that say that the that Zach Lane and everybody, you know, knew about it, that the campaign knew about his financial problems.

And apparently they just decided to go ahead.

And and you have to be able and it's just very interesting.