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.
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Since January 2023, Bird has served with distinction as Iowa's Attorney General.
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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.
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Today, as Iowa's Attorney General, Bird does not merely hold the office.
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She wields it as a force for justice.
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By contrast, Willems has never demonstrated the same seriousness.
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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.
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He has no business within a hundred miles of the Iowa attorney general's office.
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In 2021, Ryan Cooper, a husband and father in Traer, turned up shot dead in his home.
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The case sat cold for two years until Bird's newly created cold-case unit took it on.
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Within months, Karina Cooper and her lover Huston Danker faced arrest.
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A jury convicted Karina, and she now serves life without parole.
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Barbara Lenz, a 31-year-old mother in Woodbine, disappeared in 1989 after her abusive partner Robert Davis claimed he dropped her off.
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Nearly four decades later, Bird's unit charged Davis.
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A jury found him guilty, and the judge sentenced him to 50 years.
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He will never hurt another woman.
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That is what a real attorney general looks like.
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Willems' record runs the other direction.
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As a legislator, he voted against requiring electronic monitoring for convicted sex offenders — including those who victimized children.
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That position disqualifies him on its face.
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It might fly in San Francisco, but it has no place in Iowa.
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While Bird defends the Second Amendment, Willems voted against making Iowa a shall-issue concealed-carry state — the standard the Supreme Court affirmed as constitutionally required in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.
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Willems also seeks to dilute Iowans' voting power by opposing voter-ID laws in a state with two swing House districts and recent races decided by fewer than a dozen votes.
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And while Bird has filed court briefs supporting federal immigration enforcement, Willems has publicly attacked those policies.
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A Willems victory would transform Iowa from a legal ally of the president into a state resembling California or Illinois — states dedicated to obstructing federal law enforcement at every turn.
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Willems does not represent Iowa.
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He represents the resistance.
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He voted against a ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
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Opposing a limit after 20 weeks means defending abortion more than halfway through pregnancy — when the child stands only weeks away from viability outside the womb.
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Then there is the D-Day post, which should have immediately ended any aspirations Willems harbored of becoming Iowa's top law enforcement officer.
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On the 82nd anniversary of the Normandy landings, Willems reposted an image equating American paratroopers with leftwing terrorist group Antifa.
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The caption read: "A plane full of uniformed antifa, circa 1944," placed beside a photograph of the brave American men who jumped behind enemy lines to liberate France from Nazi occupation.
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Comparing those heroes to an anarchist group responsible for widespread riot violence and attacks on federal officers is not edgy commentary.
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A man willing to smear the heroes of Normandy has no business serving as any state's chief law enforcement officer.
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Bird hunts and prosecutes murderers decades after their crimes; Willems wants convicted sex offenders — including child predators — back on the street without electronic monitoring.
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Bird defends the Second Amendment.
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Willems voted to gut it.
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Bird stands with President Trump.
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Willems aligns with George Soros.
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Bird honors the men who died at Normandy.
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