Articles Tagged: Liz Mathis

Support from “right-wing dark money group” criticized by potential Democratic opponent

No current members of the U.S. House are thrown into a district with another incumbent. However, Ashley Hinson and Marianette Miller-Meeks would be in unfamiliar territory. Their would-be Democratic challengers — state Sen. Liz Mathis of Hiawatha and state Rep. Christina Bohannan of Iowa City — both would be in the new 1st District. Under the current map, Mathis is in the 1st and Bohannan in the 2nd.

Iowa GOP Chair Jeff Kaufmann says Democrat Liz Mathis voted against ‘largest tax cut in Iowa history.’

State senator will seek Democratic nomination in 1St District

Republican Party of Iowa calls efforts by state Sen. Liz Mathis to convince her colleagues to support the tax break for a client that paid her husband’s firm nearly $150,000 “self-serving” and “shady, to say the least.”

Mathis, who has served in the Iowa Senate for 10 years, has been endorsed by 14 Democratic colleagues and 34 state representatives, as well as Linn County elected officials.

Ready to do “bigger things, Mathis says her priority will be reducing health care costs, especially prescription drug costs, expanding access across rural areas and increasing mental health services.

Gov. Reynolds’ inaction, which makes it impossible for the board to meet because of a lack of a quorum, is unacceptable to Iowa Democratic legislative leaders.

Iowa 1st District Rep. Ashley Hinson will bring in a couple of the nation’s Republican heavyweights for the Marion Republican’s first Ashley’s BBQ Bash fundraiser.