Greene County Attorney Thomas Laehn enters U.S. Senate race as Libertarian

Greene County Attorney Thomas Laehn is running for the U.S. Senate as a Libertarian. He's the first and only Libertarian to be elected to public office in Iowa’s history. Laehn said Iowans are ready for something besides the two-party system.

As an intern in Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office more than two decades ago, Laehn recalled when a staffer took him to the Senate floor. What he saw shocked him. Rather than a room full of senators debating and deliberating, Laehn said he saw just one senator talking to a camera. Read the full story at iowapublicradio.org.