BREAKING: Lindsay James Accused of Unethical Behavior

A bombshell new report reveals Iowa Democrat Lindsay James allegedly offered a job to independent candidate Dave Bushaw after pressuring him to drop out of the race.

Read more about the allegations here or excerpts from the report below.

EXCLUSIVE: Independent candidate for Congress alleges his Democratic opponent offered him a job in Congress and believes she wanted him to withdraw from the race
Washington Reporter
Matthew Foldi
September 1, 2026

Dave Bushaw is an Iowa farmer running in Iowa’s open 2nd District against Democrat Lindsay James, Republican Joe Mitchell, and Libertarian Rick Stewart. Bushaw told the Reporter that, following a candidate’s forum in May, 2026, James approached him.

“After the forum, I was talking to some of my friends, and Lindsay James came up to me and she pulled me aside, and she said ‘Dave I hear you’re a farmer, I’d love to come and see your farm sometime,’” Bushaw told the Reporter. “She said ‘when I get into Congress, one of the first things I’m going to do is I’m going to work on getting appointed to the House Committee on Agriculture,’ and she puts up her hand to me and she says ‘I’m gonna need folks like you working in my office with me that know the stuff on the ground,’ and it just sounded all gross and I just got my family left. That was the end of it. I closed up the conversation after that, and I just sat on it.”

For months, Bushaw said he “sat on this” because his “goal is policy, rather than tit for tat.” But Bushaw said that the way James has run her campaign made him conclude that she was offering him a job in exchange for him withdrawing.

“The only reason why I interpreted it like that was because of a prior instance where she was talking,” he explained. “I’ve been in the political world for a while. We’ve been in the political world. There are people that we know, and there are some folks that I know that she knows that she was talking to, and she said ‘I just don’t get it. I don’t get why Dave is doing this.’ And she asked one of those mutual acquaintances ‘what can you do to get Dave to quote unquote stop all of this?’”

“That was the first interaction,” Bushaw said of the December incident. “I blew that off. That was way back in December of 2025, but the precedent of that, coupled with her saying ‘when when I win, I’m going to need this.’ In my mind, I interpreted that as a you know, ‘hey, step out of the way, and I’ve got a job offer for you.’ I don’t give a shit.”

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Following James’s campaign rejecting Bushaw’s claims, he reiterated their accuracy to the Reporter, saying that he is “operating in good faith as an Iowan, I don’t know what else to say.” He added that he remembered what James told him “almost verbatim.”