OSAGE, Iowa — Gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn flew into the Mitchell County Airport with a campaign strategy he describes in plain terms: be present.

“I’m kind of just doing this … first flying tour as much as I can — land at small airports, go to events,” Lahn said during a nearly 45-minute sit-down interview with The Osage Oracle publisher and owner Chris Nelson, conducted at the Cedar Valley Seminary in Osage.