(Radio Iowa) – Republican Brenna Bird says in her first two years as Iowa’s attorney general, she was busy suing the Biden Administration for its environmental and gun rights policies, but with President Trump in the White House, she has another primary target now.
Bird made her remarks this weekend at a fundraiser for her re-election campaign. Bird says there’s other important litigation her office is working on, like the state’s lawsuit accusing TikTok of violating Iowa’s Consumer Fraud Act.
Bird’s office has so far filed eight cases accusing non-citizens of voting and obtained one conviction. Three defendants have been acquitted. Bird is facing Democrat Nate Willems of Mount Vernon in the November election.
Willems served in the Iowa House for two terms and Bird says he opposed requiring photo I-D for voting and a “stand your ground” law that gives gun owners a right to shoot in self-defense.
Willems’ campaign manager says Willems has defended Iowa police officers, hospital workers and custodians in court, while Bird has been building her national reputation by pursuing partisan causes and lawsuits rather than taking on greedy corporations that cheat Iowans or pollute our air and water.
