Former State Representative Brad Sherman, a pastor from Williamsburg, has announced he will seek the Republican Party’s 2026 nomination for governor, setting up a likely Primary with Governor Kim Reynolds, who is expected to seek reelection.
During an interview with Radio Iowa, Sherman said he told Reynolds in November he was likely to run. “I felt like that was the respectful thing to do and I told her: ‘It’s not like I have some big vendetta against you,’” Sherman said this afternoon. “I don’t, but there are some issues that I see differently.”
For one, Sherman says he hasn’t seen enough action on property rights. He opposes the Iowa Utilities Commission decision to grant eminent domain authority to Summit Carbon Solutions, so the company can seize land along its pipeline route from unwilling property owners.
“I know people say, ‘Well, it’s going to bring dollars into the state and create some jobs and what have you,’” Sherman told Radio Iowa. “Well, it might do that, but anybody that wants to start a business could make that claim and once we set that precedent, nobody’s property is safe from somebody that wants to lobby the government to use eminent domain to take that property for whatever they want it for.”
Sherman said more must be done to lower property taxes, too. Governor Reynolds has made cutting income taxes one of top priorities.
by | Feb 17, 2025
Radioiowa.com
