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  "schema": "iafactcheck-debate-review-v1",
  "event": {
    "date": "2026-10-14",
    "slug": "2026-10-14-governor",
    "title": "October 14 governor debate",
    "pair": "Rob Sand and Zach Lahn",
    "video": "-SM3RvG1SLQ",
    "host": "KTIV · Sioux City",
    "moderators": "Matt Breen, Dave Price and Justin Rust",
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      "zach-lahn"
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  "reviewDate": "2026-10-15",
  "transcriptStatus": "Original paraphrased reading guide; not a verbatim certified transcript",
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    "entries": 56,
    "rated": 27,
    "policy": 13,
    "pending": 16,
    "sources": 46
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      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
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      "wording": "Lahn grew up and graduated from high school in Sioux City.",
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      "classification": "Mostly Supported",
      "finding": "The published biography supports the chronology.",
      "evidence": "His campaign biography describes his Sioux City upbringing.",
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      "id": "sand-career",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
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      "classification": "Blue-Ribbon Supported",
      "finding": "The public career chronology is supported.",
      "evidence": "The institutional Auditor biography describes his prosecution work and tenure beginning in 2019.",
      "context": "Personal childhood anecdotes are not separately verified.",
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        "auditor"
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      "rebuttal": "",
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      "id": "sand-team",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
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      "topic": "Auditor accountability",
      "wording": "Sand included an independent and a Republican on his senior leadership team.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 2,
      "classification": "Mostly Supported",
      "finding": "Cross-party leadership is documented.",
      "evidence": "Institutional biography and contemporary reporting describe his office leadership.",
      "context": "Staff affiliation alone does not establish that every office decision was nonpartisan.",
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "record-misspent",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
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      "topic": "Auditor accountability",
      "wording": "His office uncovered a record amount of misspent money.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Historical superlative unresolved.",
      "evidence": "Individual investigations and sums are documented in the audit archive.",
      "context": "No uniform all-predecessor series is supplied. Identified misspending, money recovered and restitution differ.",
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    {
      "id": "audit-limits",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
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      "topic": "Auditor accountability",
      "wording": "The Legislature made it harder for the Auditor to obtain records.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
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      "classification": "Mostly Supported",
      "finding": "SF478 restricted access and changed dispute resolution.",
      "evidence": "The 2023 law limits categories of information and routes certain interagency disputes through arbitration.",
      "context": "It did not abolish all investigative powers. Supporters offered privacy and dispute-resolution rationales; exceptions matter.",
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        "sf478"
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      "id": "courtesy",
      "speaker": "Both candidates",
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      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
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      "id": "budget-gap",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
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      "topic": "Budget",
      "wording": "Iowa has roughly $1.3–$1.4 billion annual budget gaps on a roughly $9.5 billion General Fund budget.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
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      "classification": "Context Needed",
      "finding": "The recurring gap is real; fund and fiscal-year distinctions matter.",
      "evidence": "Budget documents and revenue forecasts show spending above recurring receipts and planned use of balances.",
      "context": "This is not proof of unpaid bills or a cash budget that cannot balance. Recommendation, enacted budget and year-end actuals differ.",
      "sources": [
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      "rebuttal": "Lahn proposes efficiency and tax relief without a quantified replacement budget in this exchange.",
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      "repeatedAt": []
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    {
      "id": "revenue-growth",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 715,
      "topic": "Budget",
      "wording": "Optimistic revenue growth has not materialized.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 3,
      "classification": "Leaning Supported",
      "finding": "Recent receipts support concern, with timing limits.",
      "evidence": "Management reports September gross receipts down 3.4% against a positive annual growth estimate.",
      "context": "One month of gross receipts is not a full-year net-revenue outcome; tax changes affect comparisons.",
      "sources": [
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
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    {
      "id": "federal-surplus",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
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      "topic": "Budget",
      "wording": "Federal money under the last two presidents helped create Iowa’s accumulated balances.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 4,
      "classification": "Context Needed",
      "finding": "Federal support was substantial, but does not explain every reserve dollar.",
      "evidence": "Budget books separately identify federal funds, General Fund balances and taxpayer relief resources.",
      "context": "Aid, unusually strong receipts and spending choices must be separated; all reserves cannot simply be called leftover federal aid.",
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      "id": "reserve-runway",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
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      "topic": "Budget",
      "wording": "Annual use of $1.3–$1.4 billion will exhaust relevant balances in a few years.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 4,
      "classification": "Context Needed",
      "finding": "The direction follows if assumed gaps persist; the exact runway is conditional.",
      "evidence": "Budget projections rely on nonrecurring balances.",
      "context": "Accounts have different legal purposes. Constant withdrawals and no policy response are assumptions, not an inevitable insolvency date.",
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      "rebuttal": "",
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      "repeatedAt": []
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    {
      "id": "budget-options",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
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      "topic": "Budget",
      "wording": "Cannabis taxes, ending data-center incentives, ESA income limits and mandatory PIE participation would help close the gap.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Uncosted combined policy proposal.",
      "evidence": "Current ESA rules and PIE materials identify policies he would change.",
      "context": "Sand concedes the first two ideas alone would not balance the budget. No independently scored combined package is supplied.",
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      "id": "pie-origin",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
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      "topic": "Government efficiency",
      "wording": "Sand started PIE in his first auditor term.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 1,
      "classification": "Blue-Ribbon Supported",
      "finding": "Program creation is documented.",
      "evidence": "The Auditor’s institutional history credits his office with Public Innovations and Efficiencies.",
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      "rebuttal": "",
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    {
      "id": "pie-replicated",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
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      "topic": "Government efficiency",
      "wording": "PIE has been copied in two other states.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Exact two-state implementation count pending.",
      "evidence": "PIE materials document the program and replication discussions.",
      "context": "A pilot, announcement and functioning equivalent are different; two completed implementations are not certified here.",
      "sources": [
        "pie"
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "solar-savings",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 845,
      "topic": "Government efficiency",
      "wording": "An average public solar installation saved about $750,000.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 4,
      "classification": "Context Needed",
      "finding": "The report estimates lifetime savings, not an annual cash saving.",
      "evidence": "The2021 Auditor review reports average projected lifetime savings of$716,437 and average annual savings of$26,475 for the surveyed projects.",
      "context": "Sample, financing, energy prices and equipment life matter. It cannot establish every installation’s return or cash already recovered.",
      "sources": [
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "property-priority",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 920,
      "topic": "Property taxes",
      "wording": "Lahn prioritizes eliminating property tax on primary single-family homes.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Future goal with no published exact replacement mechanism in this exchange.",
      "evidence": "He acknowledges the financing design is unfinished.",
      "context": "He mentions an approximately 2.5-point sales-tax idea from others and explicitly says it is not his proposal.",
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      "rebuttal": "",
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    },
    {
      "id": "blockchain",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 985,
      "topic": "Government efficiency",
      "wording": "Blockchain records and citizen auditors would expose waste and finance property-tax reductions.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Uncosted transparency and savings proposal.",
      "evidence": "No operating statewide system or independently measured savings is supplied.",
      "context": "Privacy, exempt records, accuracy and cybersecurity remain constraints. Transparency alone does not guarantee replacement revenue.",
      "sources": [
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "promise",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "property-local",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
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      "topic": "Property taxes",
      "wording": "Property tax is largely local, although he proposes beginning efficiency work at state level.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 2,
      "classification": "Mostly Supported",
      "finding": "Local levies and state law are distinct.",
      "evidence": "Iowa statutes govern locally assessed and levied taxes and state backfill.",
      "context": "State agency savings do not automatically replace county, city or school revenue; a legal funding mechanism is needed.",
      "sources": [
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "income-tax-record",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 1115,
      "topic": "Income taxes",
      "wording": "Iowa enacted its largest income-tax cut.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 4,
      "classification": "Context Needed",
      "finding": "Real tax reductions; historical superlative depends on the metric.",
      "evidence": "The 2022 and 2024 laws reduced individual rates; a flat rate began in 2025.",
      "context": "Annual phased-in effects cannot be ranked against unlike multiyear, inflation-adjusted or percentage totals.",
      "sources": [
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        "taxfiscal2022",
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "property-first",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 1120,
      "topic": "Property taxes",
      "wording": "No state has eliminated property taxes on primary single-family homes.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Nationwide universal negative not fully established.",
      "evidence": "States use varied homeowner and other exemptions.",
      "context": "A limited exemption is not elimination for every primary home; no complete current 50-state audit is supplied here.",
      "sources": [
        "propertylaw"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "settlements",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 1240,
      "topic": "Auditor accountability",
      "wording": "Sand opposed taxpayer-funded settlements and wants recovery from responsible officials.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 4,
      "classification": "Context Needed",
      "finding": "The documented example supports the point, not every universal assertion.",
      "evidence": "The Appeal Board record and contemporary account document his opposition to a harassment settlement.",
      "context": "Settlement is not an adjudication of guilt. Personal recovery depends on legal standards; the state’s competing settlement rationale matters.",
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "watchdog-unanimity",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 1335,
      "topic": "Auditor accountability",
      "wording": "Every watchdog who weighed in opposed the audit law, including two letters from Bush’s comptroller general.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Universal count and exact letter history pending.",
      "evidence": "The statute and opposition coverage establish an access dispute.",
      "context": "This review has not assembled every submission or authenticated both letters. Predicted fraud and demonstrated subsequent fraud differ.",
      "sources": [
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "local-food-target",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 1440,
      "topic": "School meals",
      "wording": "Lahn wants 80% of school food to be Iowa-grown, phased in over time.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Future target, not a current achievement.",
      "evidence": "He proposes procurement changes and gradual benchmarks.",
      "context": "No independently costed statewide supply, nutrition, storage and distribution model is supplied. Shared interest in local food does not establish 80% feasibility.",
      "sources": [
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      "rebuttal": "",
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      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "beef-42000",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 1480,
      "topic": "School meals",
      "wording": "A producer must deliver 42,000 pounds of ground beef to supply school meals with USDA support.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 5,
      "classification": "Getting Muddy",
      "finding": "A bulk commodity specification is presented as a general school-meal rule.",
      "evidence": "USDA commodity specifications use 42,000-pound units, but farm-to-school guidance permits local meat through other procurement methods.",
      "context": "One purchasing channel’s truckload rule is not a universal eligibility condition for meal reimbursement.",
      "sources": [
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      "rebuttal": "When the moderator asks about daily supply, Lahn clarifies he did not mean 42,000 pounds each day.",
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      "repeatedAt": [
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    },
    {
      "id": "rollins-meeting",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 1500,
      "topic": "School meals",
      "wording": "He met Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins about procurement changes.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Specific meeting and substance independently unverified here.",
      "evidence": "This is his account of a meeting.",
      "context": "The existence of local procurement options does not establish the meeting or agreement to change rules.",
      "sources": [
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "ethanol-scale",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 1540,
      "topic": "Agriculture",
      "wording": "Iowa makes about four billion gallons of ethanol annually.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 2,
      "classification": "Mostly Supported",
      "finding": "The order of magnitude is consistent with the documented industry scale.",
      "evidence": "Iowa Agriculture’s November 2025 statement cites 4.6 billion gallons. The debate’s four-billion illustration is rounded below that stated production level.",
      "context": "Production, capacity and a particular final calendar-year total differ. This is not certification of the current year’s final output.",
      "sources": [
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "working-lands",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 1715,
      "topic": "Water and agriculture",
      "wording": "Converting vulnerable row-crop land to grazing through Working Lands can reduce nutrient runoff.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 3,
      "classification": "Leaning Supported",
      "finding": "Supported mechanism, with site-specific effects.",
      "evidence": "Conservation research supports perennial cover and buffers as ways to reduce nitrogen loss.",
      "context": "No statewide measured removal total is supplied. Grazing management, slope and nutrient loading matter; buffer performance is not interchangeable with every pasture.",
      "sources": [
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "universal-meals",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 1800,
      "topic": "School meals",
      "wording": "Universal breakfast and lunch would draw additional federal dollars and lower Iowa costs.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 4,
      "classification": "Context Needed",
      "finding": "Family bills can fall, but state savings are not automatic.",
      "evidence": "Federal meal reimbursement rules allow eligible schools to expand free meals; states fund remaining costs.",
      "context": "Universality alone does not entitle every meal to the highest reimbursement rate. Costs shift among families, state and federal budgets.",
      "sources": [
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      ],
      "rebuttal": "The moderator asks how he would fund the program amid a budget gap.",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "five-percent-aid",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 1920,
      "topic": "Education funding",
      "wording": "Sand promises 5% state-aid growth in year one, not necessarily year two.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Explicit conditional future commitment.",
      "evidence": "He repeats the first-year figure and conditions later funding on finances.",
      "context": "This is not enacted funding or an independently balanced budget; savings and revenues need legislative action.",
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "promise",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "cannabis-revenue",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 1950,
      "topic": "Budget",
      "wording": "Cannabis taxes could raise about $50 million initially and over $100 million later.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Revenue forecast not independently scored.",
      "evidence": "He describes expected proceeds from a proposed market.",
      "context": "Tax design, market size, rollout, enforcement and displacement matter. No fiscal note for his exact proposal is supplied.",
      "sources": [
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "school-rank-sand",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2055,
      "topic": "Education rankings",
      "wording": "Iowa fell from fifth in 2018 to the bottom half in education.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 4,
      "classification": "Context Needed",
      "finding": "Requires a named metric and consistent ranking series.",
      "evidence": "Official NAEP data distinguish subjects, grades and statistically significant differences; commercial rankings combine indicators.",
      "context": "A broad ranking is not identical to student-test rank and cannot prove one policy caused a decline.",
      "sources": [
        "naep",
        "edfinance"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "The same comparability rule applies to Lahn’s historical ranking claim.",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "school-rank-lahn",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2120,
      "topic": "Education rankings",
      "wording": "Iowa was first in the 1990s and fell 27 places.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 4,
      "classification": "Context Needed",
      "finding": "A rank comparison without a consistent indicator overstates what it establishes.",
      "evidence": "Official state NAEP materials report subject-specific results rather than one invariant education rank.",
      "context": "Different ranking products, grades, subjects and changing state participation cannot be merged into one 27-place change.",
      "sources": [
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        "edfinance"
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "spending-50",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2130,
      "topic": "Education funding",
      "wording": "Real per-pupil spending increased 50% since the early 1990s.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "The exact inflation-adjusted series is not reproduced.",
      "evidence": "State financial reports provide spending and enrollment data.",
      "context": "Start year, price index, capital, pensions and denominator must be defined. Spending and outcomes alone do not prove causation.",
      "sources": [
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "school-network",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2155,
      "topic": "Education background",
      "wording": "His school model is used in 300 schools nationally.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Network count and individual contribution need separation.",
      "evidence": "His campaign describes work on alternative schooling.",
      "context": "A shared model’s network does not mean he founded or ran every school. The exact 300 figure is not independently certified here.",
      "sources": [
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      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "esa-choice",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2160,
      "topic": "School choice",
      "wording": "Education savings accounts give parents another choice for education dollars.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 2,
      "classification": "Mostly Supported",
      "finding": "ESA law provides a state-funded private-school option.",
      "evidence": "Code 257.11B and Education guidance define eligibility and expenses.",
      "context": "Foundational freedom and opportunity fund are political characterizations. Eligibility and public-school obligations are different.",
      "sources": [
        "esa",
        "esalaw"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "innovation-policy",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2210,
      "topic": "Education policy",
      "wording": "Innovation zones, classroom behavior support and merit pay would improve schools.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Policy proposals and predicted effects.",
      "evidence": "He lists changes rather than a specific supplemental-aid percentage.",
      "context": "Costs, authority, staffing and disability protections need concrete proposals. The moderator notes no percentage was supplied.",
      "sources": [
        "edfinance",
        "teacherlaw"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "promise",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "teacher-95-5",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2260,
      "topic": "Classroom behavior",
      "wording": "Teachers spend 95% of their time with 5% of students.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Statewide percentage unverified.",
      "evidence": "He offers the ratio during discussion of classroom behavior.",
      "context": "No representative Iowa time-use study is cited; do not treat it as a measured fact for every classroom.",
      "sources": [
        "edfinance"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "phonics",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2425,
      "topic": "Reading instruction",
      "wording": "Mississippi improved reading after literacy reforms; Iowa should emphasize phonics over three-cueing.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 3,
      "classification": "Leaning Supported",
      "finding": "Evidence-based literacy supports the direction, with attribution limits.",
      "evidence": "Iowa Education’s NAEP analysis emphasizes evidence-based reading instruction.",
      "context": "Mississippi changed more than one technique. Ranking changes cannot be assigned solely to phonics without causal evidence.",
      "sources": [
        "naep",
        "mississippi"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "sand-townhalls",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2465,
      "topic": "Public access",
      "wording": "Sand holds 100 public town halls yearly, covering all counties and both Lee County seats.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Exact completed annual count not independently audited.",
      "evidence": "He describes a county-seat tour and publicly accessible questions.",
      "context": "Announcements, rescheduled events and completed meetings should be reconciled before certifying the annual total.",
      "sources": [
        "auditor"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "teacher-base",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2515,
      "topic": "Teacher pay",
      "wording": "Iowa raised starting teacher minimum pay to $50,000.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 1,
      "classification": "Blue-Ribbon Supported",
      "finding": "The phased-in statutory minimum is documented.",
      "evidence": "HF2612 establishes the $50,000 starting minimum for 2025–26.",
      "context": "Minimum base salary is not average compensation or take-home pay.",
      "sources": [
        "teacherlaw",
        "teacherfiscal"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "teacher-steps",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2525,
      "topic": "Teacher pay",
      "wording": "The starting-pay increase was financed by cuts in salary steps for experienced teachers.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "The statewide financing claim is not established.",
      "evidence": "The law and fiscal note distinguish minimums, supplements and appropriations.",
      "context": "District schedules also matter. No universal statutory step cut or independent confirmation of the $16,000 Illinois anecdote is supplied.",
      "sources": [
        "teacherlaw",
        "teacherfiscal"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "h1b-policy",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2575,
      "topic": "Workforce and visas",
      "wording": "He would end H-1B use at public universities and state institutions and prioritize resident training.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Policy position with federal-law constraints.",
      "evidence": "He expressly narrows the proposal to institutions with state influence.",
      "context": "Do not characterize this as a proposed governor-issued nationwide visa ban. Specific measures would require authority and preemption review.",
      "sources": [
        "federalconstitution"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "promise",
      "repeatedAt": [
        2760
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "steel-project",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2600,
      "topic": "Steel mill",
      "wording": "The proposed southeast Iowa mill represents $15 billion and substantial jobs.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 2,
      "classification": "Mostly Supported",
      "finding": "The announced proposal is documented; completion is not.",
      "evidence": "The October 2 Governor announcement describes the project and MEGA changes.",
      "context": "Proposed dollars and jobs are not actual investment completed or jobs filled. Financing, permits and performance conditions matter.",
      "sources": [
        "mega",
        "hf2801",
        "megafiscal"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "steel-unique",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2615,
      "topic": "Steel mill",
      "wording": "No other American project is comparable.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "National superlative unresolved.",
      "evidence": "A large announced project does not itself establish uniqueness.",
      "context": "Dollar amount, technology, capacity and ownership are different comparisons; no complete comparison set is supplied.",
      "sources": [
        "mega"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "training-policy",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2655,
      "topic": "Workforce",
      "wording": "Higher-education funding should favor Iowa enrollment, with trade tuition help for rural service.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Future funding proposals.",
      "evidence": "He discusses public-private training and tuition forgiveness.",
      "context": "No enacted eligibility rules, costs or retention results are supplied. Preference does not establish lawful exclusion of other applicants.",
      "sources": [
        "budget"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "promise",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "population",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2820,
      "topic": "Workforce",
      "wording": "Iowa is among the slowest-growing states and should welcome people who want to stay.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 3,
      "classification": "Leaning Supported",
      "finding": "Slow growth is consistent with the demographic setting; welcoming workers is policy.",
      "evidence": "State economic and demographic records document growth and workforce constraints.",
      "context": "An exact national rank requires a period and dataset. A law-school friend’s experience is an anecdote.",
      "sources": [
        "bea",
        "beagdp"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "labor-agreement",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 2925,
      "topic": "Steel mill",
      "wording": "Sand wants a project labor agreement and training and hiring obligations for Iowans.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Proposed conditions, not a signed Iowa agreement.",
      "evidence": "He distinguishes a reported Minnesota agreement from any future Iowa terms.",
      "context": "A proposal and campaign commitment do not show that the developer has accepted every condition.",
      "sources": [
        "mega"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "promise",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "cedar-data",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 3060,
      "topic": "Data centers",
      "wording": "A nearby center occupies 1,400 former farm acres, receives over $500 million in abatements and promises 30 permanent jobs.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Precise project and agreement unresolved.",
      "evidence": "This is checkable, but the developer and exact agreement are not clearly identified in the exchange.",
      "context": "Do not substitute Apple’s Waukee project or another Cedar Rapids site. Graded land, acquired land, estimated abatements and binding jobs must refer to one project.",
      "sources": [
        "chapter22"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "data-conditions",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 3090,
      "topic": "Data centers",
      "wording": "Centers should get no incentives, pay infrastructure and water costs, and face strong local negotiation or moratoria.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Policy conditions, not delivered benefits.",
      "evidence": "He favors state rules with county negotiation.",
      "context": "The claim some centers froze surrounding power rates has no named tariff or utility order here; prospective benefits remain conditional.",
      "sources": [
        "chapter22"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "promise",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "data-nda",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 3215,
      "topic": "Data centers",
      "wording": "Public officials should not sign agreements that conceal a proposed developer from constituents.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Policy and public-service judgment.",
      "evidence": "Iowa’s records chapter contains disclosure duties and exemptions.",
      "context": "Not every NDA is automatically unlawful; a particular agreement needs its own records and legal analysis.",
      "sources": [
        "chapter22"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "promise",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "politician-rules",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 3260,
      "topic": "Election reform",
      "wording": "He proposes a stock-trading ban, mandatory prison time for taxpayer theft, town halls and equal primary access.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Future legal changes.",
      "evidence": "These are proposed checks on public officials and parties.",
      "context": "Sentencing depends on enacted elements and judicial process; proposed requirements are not current law.",
      "sources": [
        "primaryvoting"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "promise",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "primary-club",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 3295,
      "topic": "Election reform",
      "wording": "Iowa voters must join a party to participate in taxpayer-funded primaries.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 4,
      "classification": "Context Needed",
      "finding": "Party declaration is required for a partisan primary; same-day changes are allowed.",
      "evidence": "Iowa Code 43.42 lets registered voters declare or change affiliation at the polls.",
      "context": "Independents are not barred from general elections or subject to discretionary private-club approval.",
      "sources": [
        "primaryvoting"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "redistrict-first",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 3315,
      "topic": "Election reform",
      "wording": "Iowa was first to establish an independent redistricting commission.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 5,
      "classification": "Getting Muddy",
      "finding": "The wording conflates a staff model with a decision-making commission.",
      "evidence": "LSA history dates the model to 1980: nonpartisan staff prepare plans, legislators approve and a commission advises.",
      "context": "The safeguards are real. This review does not certify the national first claim; the actual institutional structure is more qualified.",
      "sources": [
        "redistrict"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "merit-first",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 3345,
      "topic": "Election reform",
      "wording": "Iowa was first in America to adopt merit-based judicial selection.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": 7,
      "classification": "Full Hogwash",
      "finding": "The first-in-America claim is contradicted.",
      "evidence": "Iowa Judicial Branch dates its reform to 1962; Missouri court history documents its merit plan in 1940.",
      "context": "This finding concerns historical priority, not whether Iowa has a merit system. The wording was cross-checked against a second transcription of the recording.",
      "sources": [
        "judicialia",
        "judicialmo"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "muhlbauer",
      "speaker": "Rob Sand",
      "timecodeSeconds": 3425,
      "topic": "Running mates",
      "wording": "Dave Muhlbauer is a farmer and Crawford County supervisor elected in a heavily Republican county.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Biography and electoral comparison need separate records.",
      "evidence": "Sand names his running mate’s local office and cross-party appeal.",
      "context": "County presidential totals and the supervisor election need official returns; endorsement alone does not show every voter crossed party lines.",
      "sources": [
        "ethics"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "lahn-primary-spending",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 3550,
      "topic": "Campaign finance",
      "wording": "Lahn won despite being outspent 30% by a multiple-term congressman.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Spending comparison not reproduced.",
      "evidence": "Official disclosures permit committee spending comparisons.",
      "context": "Reporting windows, candidate loans and independent spending must not be mixed. No matched denominator is supplied.",
      "sources": [
        "ethics"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    },
    {
      "id": "wulf-bills",
      "speaker": "Zach Lahn",
      "timecodeSeconds": 3570,
      "topic": "Running mates",
      "wording": "Derek Wulf worked on local-food, incentive and right-to-repair bills.",
      "wordingType": "Paraphrase; approximate recording locator",
      "hogwashMeter": null,
      "classification": "Pending / not scored",
      "finding": "Exact bill roles need bill-by-bill reconciliation.",
      "evidence": "Lahn cites these subjects as reasons for his selection.",
      "context": "Sponsorship, committee work, votes and enactment differ. Iowa-first is framing, not an established policy outcome or resolution of separate financial allegations.",
      "sources": [
        "hf2801"
      ],
      "rebuttal": "",
      "kind": "fact",
      "repeatedAt": []
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-appealboard",
      "label": "Iowa Management — State Appeal Board meeting notices and agendas",
      "url": "https://dom.iowa.gov/topics/state-appeal-board-meeting",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "appealboard"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-auditarchive",
      "label": "Iowa Auditor — releases and reports archive",
      "url": "https://www.auditor.iowa.gov/alerts-and-public-releases/alerts-and-public-releases-archive",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "auditarchive"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-auditor",
      "label": "Iowa Auditor — institutional history and Sand biography",
      "url": "https://www.auditor.iowa.gov/about-us",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "auditor"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-bea",
      "label": "BEA — current state personal income data and release",
      "url": "https://www.bea.gov/data/income-saving/personal-income-by-state",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "bea"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-beagdp",
      "label": "BEA — state GDP data",
      "url": "https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gdp-state",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "beagdp"
    },
    {
      "key": "beeftruck",
      "label": "USDA AMS ground-beef delivery specifications",
      "url": "https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/Supplement211GroundBeefItemsJuly2022.pdf",
      "type": "Primary record"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-budget",
      "label": "Iowa Management — state budget and FY 2027 documents",
      "url": "https://dom.iowa.gov/state-government/state-budget",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "budget"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-budgetgapreport",
      "label": "Iowa Public Radio — March 12 revenue forecast, FY 2026 / 2027 distinctions",
      "url": "https://www.iowapublicradio.org/state-government-news/2026-03-12/iowa-faces-back-to-back-1-billion-budget-deficits-as-panel-reduces-revenue-estimates",
      "type": "Independent reporting",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "budgetgapreport"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-buffers",
      "label": "USDA ARS — saturated-buffer evidence and how they work",
      "url": "https://www.ars.usda.gov/midwest-area/ames/nlae/news/what-are-saturated-buffers/",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "buffers"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-chapter22",
      "label": "Iowa Legislature — public records chapter 22",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/22.pdf",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "chapter22"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-dnrwater",
      "label": "Iowa DNR — public drinking-water monitoring and compliance",
      "url": "https://www.iowadnr.gov/environmental-protection/water-quality/water-supply-engineering/annual-compliance-report",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "dnrwater"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-edfinance",
      "label": "Iowa Education — education statistics and financial reports",
      "url": "https://educate.iowa.gov/pk-12/data/education-statistics",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "edfinance"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-esa",
      "label": "Iowa Education — ESA eligibility, expenses and implementation",
      "url": "https://educate.iowa.gov/pk-12/educational-choice/education-savings-accounts",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "esa"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-esalaw",
      "label": "Iowa Code — 257.11B education savings accounts",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/257.11B.pdf",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "esalaw"
    },
    {
      "key": "ethanol",
      "label": "Iowa Agriculture 2025 ethanol production statement",
      "url": "https://iowaagriculture.gov/sites/default/files/Iowa%20Ag%20Sec%20Naig%20Comments%20for%20CARB%20on%20E15.pdf",
      "type": "Primary record"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-ethics",
      "label": "IECDB — official public campaign disclosure reports",
      "url": "https://webapp.iecdb.iowa.gov/publicReports",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "ethics"
    },
    {
      "key": "federalconstitution",
      "label": "Constitution Annotated Article I Section 8",
      "url": "https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-8/",
      "type": "Primary record"
    },
    {
      "key": "govorganizer",
      "label": "KTIV date and moderators",
      "url": "https://www.ktiv.com/2026/09/03/ktiv-host-iowa-gubernatorial-debate-october-14-7-pm/",
      "type": "Original broadcaster"
    },
    {
      "key": "govvideo",
      "label": "KTIV full October 14 governor debate",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SM3RvG1SLQ",
      "type": "Original broadcast / automatic captions"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-harassmentvote",
      "label": "Radio Iowa — May 11, 2021 State Appeal Board vote and competing settlement rationale",
      "url": "https://www.radioiowa.com/2021/05/11/state-auditor-opposes-taxpayer-financed-settlement-over-sexual-harassment-allegations/",
      "type": "Independent reporting / recorded board vote",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "harassmentvote"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-hf2801",
      "label": "Iowa Legislature — HF 2801 enacted MEGA amendments",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=HF2801&ga=91",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "hf2801"
    },
    {
      "key": "judicialia",
      "label": "Iowa Judicial Branch merit-selection history",
      "url": "https://www.iowacourts.gov/for-the-public/educational-resources-and-services/iowa-courts-history",
      "type": "Primary record"
    },
    {
      "key": "judicialmo",
      "label": "Missouri Courts history of the1940 nonpartisan plan",
      "url": "https://www.courts.mo.gov/page.jsp?id=166133",
      "type": "Primary record"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-lahnbio",
      "label": "Zach Lahn — campaign biography",
      "url": "https://www.zachlahn.com/",
      "type": "Candidate / campaign",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "lahnbio"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-leadershipreport",
      "label": "Iowa Capital Dispatch — October 6, 2022 cross-party office leadership and endorsements",
      "url": "https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2022/10/06/31-conservatives-endorse-state-auditor-rob-sand-in-re-election-bid/",
      "type": "Independent reporting / campaign statement context",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "leadershipreport"
    },
    {
      "key": "localfood",
      "label": "USDA local-food purchasing and school meat",
      "url": "https://www.fna.usda.gov/f2s/procuring-local-foods",
      "type": "Primary record"
    },
    {
      "key": "localmeat",
      "label": "Washington Agriculture local-meat procurement",
      "url": "https://agr.wa.gov/departments/business-and-marketing-support/farm-to-school-toolkit/for-districts-school-nutrition-local-food/procurement-and-geographic-preference/procurement-of-local-meat-poultry-and-seafood",
      "type": "Primary record"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-lsabudget",
      "label": "LSA — January 2026 FY 2027 budget recommendation overview",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LAGRP/1595211.pdf",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "lsabudget"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-mega",
      "label": "Governor — October 2 MEGA amendments and proposed steel mill",
      "url": "https://governor.iowa.gov/press-release/2026-10-02/gov-reynolds-signs-legislative-amendments-mega-program-paving-way-historic-15-billion-steel-mill",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "mega"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-megafiscal",
      "label": "LSA — MEGA amendment fiscal note, October 1",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/FN/1616835.pdf",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "megafiscal"
    },
    {
      "key": "mississippi",
      "label": "Mississippi Education literacy reforms and NAEP results",
      "url": "https://www.mdek12.org/superintendent/success/",
      "type": "Primary record"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-naep",
      "label": "Iowa Education — 2024 NAEP results and limits",
      "url": "https://educate.iowa.gov/press-release/2025-01-29/nations-report-card-shows-encouraging-progress-literacy-underscores-iowas-need-evidence-based",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "naep"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-pie",
      "label": "Iowa Auditor — Public Innovations and Efficiencies",
      "url": "https://www.auditor.iowa.gov/pie/pie-online",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "pie"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-primaryvoting",
      "label": "Iowa Code 43.42 — declaration or change of party affiliation at a primary",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/43.42.pdf",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "primaryvoting"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-property2023",
      "label": "Iowa Legislature — HF 718 enacted 2023 property-tax changes",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGE/90/HF718.pdf",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "property2023"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-propertylaw",
      "label": "Iowa Legislature — SF 2472 enrolled 2026 property-tax law",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGE/91/SF2472.pdf",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "propertylaw"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-rec2026",
      "label": "Iowa Management — March 12, 2026 Revenue Estimating Conference projections",
      "url": "https://dom.iowa.gov/news/2026-03-12/march-2026-estimate-general-fund-receipts",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "rec2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-receipts",
      "label": "Iowa Management — September 2026 general-fund receipts",
      "url": "https://dom.iowa.gov/news/2026-10-05/september-2026-general-fund-receipts",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "receipts"
    },
    {
      "key": "redistrict",
      "label": "Iowa LSA redistricting guide",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LG/1294208.pdf",
      "type": "Primary record"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-sf478",
      "label": "Iowa Legislature — SF 478, auditor authority changes",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=SF478&ga=90",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "sf478"
    },
    {
      "key": "solar",
      "label": "Iowa Auditor 2021 solar review, municipal archive copy",
      "url": "https://www.knoxvilleia.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1641/Auditor-Sand-Reviews-Solar-Energy-Projects-at-Public-Entities",
      "type": "Primary record"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-tax2025",
      "label": "Iowa Revenue — 2025 flat individual income tax",
      "url": "https://revenue.iowa.gov/press-release/2024-10-16/idr-announces-2025-individual-income-tax-brackets-and-interest-rates",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "tax2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-taxfiscal2022",
      "label": "LSA — HF 2317 fiscal note, 2022 tax changes",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/FN/1287955.pdf",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "taxfiscal2022"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-taxhistory",
      "label": "Iowa Management — FY 2024 budget-in-brief, 2022 tax law history",
      "url": "https://publications.iowa.gov/42578/1/bib-fy2024-v2.pdf",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "taxhistory"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-teacherfiscal",
      "label": "LSA — HF 2612 fiscal analysis",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/FN/1448318.pdf",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "teacherfiscal"
    },
    {
      "id": "debate-20261006-teacherlaw",
      "label": "Iowa Legislature — HF 2612 enrolled teacher pay law",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGE/90/HF2612.pdf",
      "type": "Primary record",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07",
      "key": "teacherlaw"
    }
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}