IA-SEN: Sen. Elizabeth Warren rallies for Zach Wahls' Senate campaign in Des Moines [View all]

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in Des Moines Sunday, called for Iowans to bring state Sen. Zach Wahls to the U.S. Senate to help Democrats take on “corruption” in Washington.

Warren said she first met Wahls in 2019 on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, when he “insisted” she come to visit a North Liberty mobile home park, where residents faced major rent hikes for their space on the property after the park was bought by Havenpark Capital. She met with residents like Candi Evans, who was at the Des Moines rally, who told the Massachusetts Democrat about her and her neighbors’ fight to create more protections for mobile home residents during ownership changes.

Warren said during this visit, she “didn’t just hear the story about what it means when private equity buys out housing here in Iowa — I saw it. I saw it firsthand.”

After that trip, Warren said, she came away with two major impressions of Wahls. First, that he was “a guy who was determined to get stuff done,” and that he was someone who was willing to “take on one of the richest industries that walks the face of this earth and make a lifetime enemy out of them” as he was starting his political career.



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