(Zach Lahn — KIWA Staff Photo)
Statewide Iowa (RI) — The Des Moines Register is reporting Zach Lahn, the Republican candidate for governor, has chosen an eastern Iowa farmer as his pick for lieutenant governor.
Lahn has picked Derek Wulf, a farmer and rancher from Hudson, Iowa, as his running mate. Wulf raises cattle, hogs, corn, soybeans, and hay on a farm near Hudson. He’s been elected to two terms in the Iowa House.
Wulf earned an animal science degree from Iowa State. He worked for Cargill for 15 years as a swine nutrition and production specialist, including two years traveling to Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Europe.
Wulf will be formally nominated to be the Iowa Republican Party’s nominee for lieutenant governor tomorrow at the party’s state convention.
Both major-party nominees for governor have chosen farmers as running mates. Democrat Rob Sand picked western Iowa farmer Dan Muhlbauer, a Crawford County supervisor.
