In the race for Governor, Kim Reynolds fired off the first attack ad of the general, last week. It took aim at Democrat Fred Hubbell's record leading Younkers.

The TV9 and Gazette Fact Check team put the claims to the test.

While the timeline presented in Reynolds’ ad is muddy at points, Hubbell was in fact in a position of power during the 1991 closures of the Newton and Spencer stores, and he oversaw the 1985 closure of the Ottumwa location.

But the ad’s suggestion that Younker’s parent company CEO — Hubbell — personally closed these stores is a reach. Hubbell did, however, receive two pay increases of about $90,000 in the years following both waves of closures. Overall, we give this ad a B.