MIKE DAVIS: Iowans can't afford a soft-on-crime attorney general

As an Iowa native, graduate of the University of Iowa and the University of Iowa College of Law, and two-time staffer for Iowa's senior U.S.

Senator and Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, I know this for certain: Brenna Bird is the Attorney General Iowa needs reelected.

Her Democrat opponent Nate Willems would be a disaster for Iowa, and the choice for voters in November could not be clearer.

Since January 2023, Bird has served with distinction as Iowa's Attorney General.

Her credentials are sterling: University of Chicago Law School, years as a prosecutor, county attorney in both Fremont and Guthrie Counties, and president of the Iowa County Attorneys Association — the highest honor a prosecutor can earn in this state.

Today, as Iowa's Attorney General, Bird does not merely hold the office.

She wields it as a force for justice.

By contrast, Willems has never demonstrated the same seriousness.

His legislative record and public conduct reveal a candidate soft on crime, hostile to the Constitution, and willing to smear American heroes for political points.

He has no business within a hundred miles of the Iowa attorney general's office.

Consider the results.

In 2021, Ryan Cooper, a husband and father in Traer, turned up shot dead in his home.

The case sat cold for two years until Bird's newly created cold-case unit took it on.

Within months, Karina Cooper and her lover Huston Danker faced arrest.