As an Iowa native, graduate of the University of Iowa and the University of Iowa College of Law, and two-time staffer for Iowa's senior U.S.Senator and Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, I know this for certain: Brenna Bird is the Attorney General Iowa needs reelected.
Her Democrat opponent Nate Willems would be a disaster for Iowa, and the choice for voters in November could not be clearer.Since January 2023, Bird has served with distinction as Iowa's Attorney General.Her credentials are sterling: University of Chicago Law School, years as a prosecutor, county attorney in both Fremont and Guthrie Counties, and president of the Iowa County Attorneys Association — the highest honor a prosecutor can earn in this state.
Today, as Iowa's Attorney General, Bird does not merely hold the office.She wields it as a force for justice.By contrast, Willems has never demonstrated the same seriousness.
His legislative record and public conduct reveal a candidate soft on crime, hostile to the Constitution, and willing to smear American heroes for political points.He has no business within a hundred miles of the Iowa attorney general's office.Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird speaks on stage on the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 16, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Consider the results.In 2021, Ryan Cooper, a husband and father in Traer, turned up shot dead in his home.
The case sat cold for two years until Bird's newly created cold-case unit took it on.Within months, Karina Cooper and her lover Huston Danker faced arrest.
A jury convicted Karina, and she now serves life without parole.Barbara Lenz, a 31-year-old mother in Woodbine, disappeared in 1989 after her abusive partner Robert Davis claimed he dropped her off.
No body.No confession.
Nearly four decades later, Bird's unit charged Davis.A jury found him guilty, and the judge sentenced him to 50 years.
He will never hurt another woman.T...