Why?
🔨 Lynn Hammel —
Iowa House District 33
What I’m fighting for:
🏠 Hammer Down Property Taxes
I want to keep Iowa families, homeowners, and seniors from being taxed out of their homes and work toward making property taxes more affordable and predictable.
🛡️ Protect Victims & Strengthen Public Safety
Victims deserve to be heard, supported, and protected. I believe criminals should be held accountable and our communities should be safe.
👷 Stand Up for Workers & Working Families
I support good-paying jobs, economic opportunity, workforce development, and policies that respect the people who work hard to provide for their families.
🌽 Iowa First
I believe Iowa should put Iowa families, Iowa communities, Iowa farmers, and Iowa workers first.
Why Lynn?
I’m not a career politician. I grew up on a small dairy farm in Northeast Iowa and have worked throughout my life—as a farm hand, paperboy, college worker, and in information technology.
I worked my way through college and paid off my college debt. My wife and I moved to Des Moines in 1995 and raised five children. I’ve spent decades working and serving in my community, including neighborhood, church, business, and civic organizations.
I’m running for Iowa House District 33 to bring my experience as a worker, husband, father, small-business owner, network engineer, and community volunteer to the Iowa Capitol.
Iowa Values. Iowa Families. Iowa First.
You have a choice!
You have a choice!
I’ve heard concerns about political pressure and whether supporting a particular candidate could affect how they are treated by government.
That raises an important question: **Should any business owner ever feel pressured to support a political candidate just to protect their business?**
I believe the answer is no.
Government should serve every Iowan fairly—regardless of who they support at the ballot box. Business owners should be free to make their own political choices without fear of government retaliation or favoritism.
If you’re a local business owner, I’d like to hear your experience.
Do my rights cause others to pay for them?
Not necessarily. Having a right doesn't automatically mean someone else has to pay for it. However, exercising certain rights can impose costs on others, and government programs funded by taxes can shift costs to taxpayers.
There's an important distinction between protecting someone's freedom and requiring someone else to pay for the exercise of that freedom.
For example:
- Free speech: You can express your opinions without requiring others to fund them.
- Religious freedom: You can practice your faith without requiring others to share your beliefs.
- Property rights: You can own property, but your use of it may affect your neighbors.
- Public services: When government provides a service, taxpayers may share the cost.
The key question is whether exercising a right infringes on someone else's rights or requires them to bear a cost without their consent.
Rights and responsibilities go hand in hand. Protecting individual liberty while respecting the rights of others is an important principle.
My opponents believe the answer to every problem is another government program, another bureaucracy, and more taxpayer money being spent.
I believe a smaller government is better.
Less money going to the city, county, and state means more money stays in YOUR pocket — where it belongs.
Who knows what is best for your family?The government — or you?
When government taxes our hard-earned money, politicians and bureaucrats decide how it should be spent instead of the people who earned it. President Ronald Reagan once said:“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
Everyone wants to create a new program for this or that. But government’s primary responsibility is to protect its citizens, uphold the law, and defend our freedoms — not control every aspect of our lives.
I believe Iowa families know how to spend their money better than the government does.
Every time government grows, taxpayers pay the price. More programs. More spending. More control.
I believe in:
✔️ Lower property taxes
✔️ Strong public safety
✔️ Protecting victims
✔️ Supporting workers and working families
✔️ Keeping more money in YOUR pocket
Government should focus on its core responsibilities — protecting our freedoms and keeping our communities safe — not creating endless new programs.
Who do you trust?
The government…or the people of Iowa?
Carbon Pipelines
I believe eminent domain should be used only when there is a clear and compelling public necessity, after reasonable alternatives have been exhausted and with strong protections for property owners.
I do not support using eminent domain for privately developed carbon-capture pipelines. Iowa landowners should not be forced to surrender their property for a private project simply because a company finds a voluntary agreement inconvenient or more expensive.
I will put Iowa landowners and
Iowa property rights first.
