The Iowa Libertarian Party has nominated a woman from Rockwell City as its lieutenant governor candidate for the fall election. The Libertarian Party is now an officially recognized party in Iowa because its presidential candidate got more than two percent of the vote in 2018. There are about 10-thousand registered Libertarians in Iowa. About 18-hundred of them voted in last week’s primary, selecting Jake Porter of Council Bluffs as the Libertarian nominee for governor. Lynne Gentry, a retired teacher from Rockwell City, was selected on Saturday as Porter’s lieutenant governor/running mate. Gentry ran for a seat in the Iowa House in 2014 and won 21 percent of the vote in the district that covers Calhoun, Pocahontas and Humboldt Counties.

(Radio Iowa)