Journalist and Activist Cynthia Paschen Announces Candidacy for Senate District 28

Journalist and community activist Cynthia Paschen announced her campaign for the Iowa Senate in Senate District 28, which includes all of Franklin, Hamilton, Hancock, Humboldt, and Wright Counties,  as well as Story City and Roland. Senator Dennis Guth currently represents Senate District 28. She released the following statement: 

“I’m running for the Iowa Senate because rural Iowa needs a fighter. Under the Republican trifecta, the most fragile in our community have been ignored by our state government. I want rural Iowans to thrive. I will fight to fully fund our public schools, public libraries, and Area Education Associations (AEAs.) LGBTQ Iowans deserve to live their lives without fear or scrutiny of their genitals. I will fight to protect the reproductive freedoms of all Iowans."

Cynthia Paschen and her husband John Paschen, MD, divide their time between their Ames home and their farm in Jewell. Paschen is a journalist with the Webster City Freeman-Journal. She has worked as a volunteer with Mary Greeley Hospice.

Pachen added, “For far too long, Iowans have been ignored by career politicians like Dennis Guth. I’ve spent my life working telling the stories of Iowa’s most vulnerable. I plan to take these experiences to Des Moines and be their advocate in the Iowa Senate.”

To learn more about Cynthia’s campaign, go to her campaign’s Facebook account at facebook.com/PaschenForSenate.