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Rita Hart

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Iowa Country Senate Commune 49

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Rita Hart (Democratic Party) was a member of the Iowa Country Senate, representing District 49. She causeless office on January 14, 2013. She left part on January 13, 2019.

Hart (Democratic Party) ran for ballot to the U.S. House to represent Iowa's 2nd Congressional District. She lost in the full general election on November 3, 2020.

After a recount showed Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R) defeating Hart by six votes in the 2020 election, Hart announced on December 2 that she would competition the election with the Business firm Assistants Committee.[1] Miller-Meeks was provisionally seated on Jan 3, 2021 as the House Administration Committee continued to review the Hart campaign'southward challenge.[two] On March 31, 2021, Hart withdrew her challenge of the results.[3] Click hither to larn more.

Committee assignments

2017 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:

Iowa commission assignments, 2017
• Agriculture
• Appropriations
• Instruction
• Natural Resources & Environment

2015 legislative session

At the kickoff of the 2015 legislative session, Hart served on the following committees:

2013-2014

At the get-go of the 2013 legislative session, Hart served on the following committees:

The post-obit table lists bills sponsored past this legislator. Bills are monitored by BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. The following list may not exist comprehensive. To see all bills sponsored past this person, click on the legislator'due south proper noun in the title of the table.

Elections

2020

See also: Iowa's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020

Iowa's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020 (June two Democratic chief)

Iowa's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Republican main)

Full general election

Democratic principal ballot

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

  • Veronica Tessler (D)
  • Joseph Kane Baker (D)
  • Newman Abuissa (D)

Republican primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

  • Thomas Kedley (R)
  • Mathew Hepker (R)

Candidate profile

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Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office:

Iowa State Senate (2013-2019)

Biography: Hart earned her B.S. from the Academy of Northern Iowa and her M.S. in Educational Administration. She worked as a farmer and teacher. Hart became an international exchange coordinator at the Education Commencement Foundation for Strange Study in 2007. She became managing director of community relations at Pangaea International University in 2019.

Primal Letters

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Hart emphasized her background as a farmer and teacher, and having grown up with a female parent who spoke in a whisper due to a health effect. Hart said she learned the importance of listening to everyone.

Hart said she would focus on economical development and affordable healthcare.

Hart emphasized endorsements she received from Republicans, saying she had a record of working with Republicans and Democrats to improve skills grooming in Iowa and to brand healthcare more affordable for modest businesses, farmers, and families.

Evidence sources

This data was current as of the candidate's run for U.South. Business firm Iowa Commune 2 in 2020

2018

Run into also: Iowa gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2018

General ballot

Democratic primary election

2014

Encounter also: Iowa State Senate elections, 2014

Elections for the Iowa State Senate took place in 2014. A primary election took place on June 3, 2014. The full general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing borderline for candidates wishing to run in this election was March fourteen, 2014. Incumbent Rita Hart was unopposed in the Democratic primary, while Brian Schmidt was unopposed in the Republican primary. Hart faced Schmidt in the general ballot.[4] [5] [6] Incumbent Hart defeated Schmidt in the general election.[7]

Iowa State Senate, Commune 49 General Election, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Rita Hart Incumbent 51.9% 11,690
Republican Brian Schmidt 48% 10,808
Write-in Write-in 0.one% 23
Total Votes 22,521

2012

See also: Iowa State Senate elections, 2012

Hart ran in the 2012 election for Iowa State Senate District 49. Hart defeated Dorothy O'Brien in the Democratic primary on June 5, 2012. Hart defeated Andrew Naeve (R) in the general ballot on Nov 6, 2012.[8] [ix]

Iowa Country Senate, District 49, General Election, 2012
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Rita Hart 54.6% 17,305
Republican Andrew Naeve 45.4% xiv,398
Total Votes 31,703
Iowa State Senate, Commune 49 Autonomous Primary, 2012
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Rita Hart 53.5% 1,289
Dorothy O'Brien 46.five% 1,121
Full Votes two,410

Campaign themes

2020

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Campaign website

Hart's campaign website stated the following:

"
  • Tackling Political Corruption in Washington
Too often in Washington, the loudest and most powerful voices drown out the residual of u.s.a.. Special interests are able to use money and influence to stymie progress on all the issues we need action on – lowering the cost of health intendance, investing in education, and raising wages for everyone. That's why Rita wants the get-go bill she votes on to be tackling political corruption in Washington.
In Congress, Rita will work to:
  • Shut the revolving door by banning members of Congress from becoming lobbyists, permanently.
  • Forestall conflicts of involvement by banning members of Congress from owning individual stocks or serving on corporate boards.
  • Pass a "No budget, no pay" constabulary then members of Congress are forced to practice their job in a timely mode.
  • Get night, unaccountable money out of politics past reversing the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court conclusion.
  • Let voters selection their representatives instead of letting politicians selection their voters by catastrophe partisan gerrymandering.
  • Jobs and Growing Our Economy
Rita understands that no matter where you live — a city, a pocket-size town, or out in the country — every Iowan should accept the opportunity and security that comes with a good job with practiced benefits. Rita founded the Clinton County Economical Development Coordinating Council and created a framework for small-town mayors to work together to spur economic growth.
In Congress, Rita volition work to:
  • Spur task creation and improve coordination between local governments, economic development organizations, and businesses by appointing a total-time staffer to focus on economic development in the district.
  • Look out for families and businesses hurt past the coronavirus crisis and do everything we can to get people back on their feet and back to work—safely.
  • Invest in teaching by reducing the cost of college and increasing the availability of high-quality job training and apprenticeships.
  • Shut the connectivity gap, provide piece of work from abode opportunities, and ensure small business organization the opportunity to compete by investing in rural broadband.
  • Increase take-home pay for working Iowans. That starts by raising the minimum wage.
  • Tackle the national debt and deficit so nosotros do non pass a burdensome debt onto our children and grandchildren.
  • Aggrandize affordable, quality child-care options for all families.
  • Making Health Care More Affordable And Accessible
Ensuring access to quality, affordable health intendance is personal for Rita. Her mom lived with a damaged centre for almost of her life as a result of a battle with rheumatic fever when she was young. Rita's female parent spent years in and out of local hospitals and the Mayo Clinic. Only the miracles of mod science allowed her to alive a longer and healthier life.
Tragedy also struck Rita'southward nephew, Tucker. After his commencement year of college, he was accidentally shot and became a quadriplegic. Tucker is fortunate to accept affordable insurance that covered his needs, only the providers of the services he needs are dependent on a working Medicaid system. Once already, Tucker had to motility after his care providers were unable to continue providing the skilled care he needed.
We all have some version of these stories or know someone who does. Just in the past few months, too many Iowans and Americans have been hurt past the coronavirus including seniors and vulnerable people who have pre-existing conditions.
Fortunately, Rita'south mom and Tucker both had wellness insurance. Health care should exist a right, non a privilege. That ways everyone should have access to critical care and no one should go bankrupt because they can't afford it.
In Congress, Rita will work to:
  • Build on the successes of the Affordable Care act similar protecting coverage for patients with pre-existing conditions and allowing young people to stay on their parents' plans.
  • Expand coronavirus testing and contact tracing with federal investment and coordination—we accept to know where the virus is circulating and then Americans can become back to work.
  • Ensure our hospitals, doctors, nurses, and other frontline workers accept the resources and protective gear they need to go along themselves and our communities safe.
  • Prepare Medicaid privatization past repealing the waiver Iowa was granted by the federal government that allows out-of-land MCOs to provide less intendance while pocketing taxpayer dollars and threatening our rural hospitals.
  • Protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security for our Seniors
  • Create incentives for high-demand providers in rural areas like psychologists, psychiatric nurses, and OB-GYNs.
  • Better access to mental health treatment and guarantee mental health parity.
  • Reduce the price of prescription drugs past assuasive Medicare to negotiate for lower prices for seniors, increasing transparency in billing, and making it easier and faster to produce less expensive generic drugs.
  • Investing in Education
Rita attended Iowa public schools, graduated from North Iowa Expanse Community Higher and the Academy of Northern Iowa, and spent xx years as a teacher in small-scale rural school districts in eastern Iowa. She taught inferior high and high school English language and, later on leaving the classroom, she ran schoolhouse-to-work and gifted and talented programs.
Rita has seen firsthand the affect that quality didactics tin can have on a person's life, ensuring that our children take even greater opportunities than nosotros've had.
In Congress, Rita will work to:
  • Invest in task training, apprenticeship, standing pedagogy, and public-individual partnership programs to provide the next generation with the skills they need for proficient jobs with livable wages and skilful benefits.
  • Reduce educatee college debt by allowing people to renegotiate their loans to get lower interest rates – just like the large banks go every day.
  • Work with educators, instead of politicians who have never been teachers in a classroom, to develop assessments instead of relying on loftier-stakes, standardized testing.
  • Brand early on childhood pedagogy available to every kid and affordable for every family. The enquiry is clear – investments in early on childhood development ensure that children have more successful, safer, and healthier lives
  • Growing Iowa'due south Agriculture
Rita has lived in rural Iowa her whole life. She grew upwardly on a dairy farm, taught in rural schools, and owns and operates a corn and soybean farm southward of Wheatland, Iowa with her married man Paul. They started on their farm during the depths of the farm crisis while living in a mobile habitation. Rita describes their farm investment as the best decision she and Paul always made.
Iowa agriculture has continued to confront crunch after crises exacerbated past ill-conceived policies out of Washington. Subcontract incomes accept been declining for a half decade and Washington politicians are making it worse. That doesn't only hurt farmers. It harms the entire rural economy.
Then, the coronavirus pandemic hit our farmers particularly difficult, while Washington left them behind, initially excluding them from pocket-size business relief.
Rita recognizes that because of climate modify and changes in the ag industry, now is the time to lay the groundwork for the futurity of the ag economy.
In Congress, Rita will work to:
  • Encourage the ingenuity of the great American farmer to find practical solutions and help farmers atomic number 82 in the fight confronting climatic change by paying for environmental services similar sequestering carbon. Make it more economically viable to engage in regenerative practices like planting comprehend crops, installing border of field practices, and using research-driven technologies that include precision agriculture.
  • Make sure Iowa farmers hurt by the coronavirus crisis have the relief they deserve and Iowa workers have the protective equipment necessary to go along our supply chain moving.
  • Keep Iowa a leader in dark-green energy by fighting for a potent Renewable Fuel Standard and catastrophe the EPA's waivers to Large Oil companies like Exxon Mobile and Chevron that are depressing prices.
  • Encourage and incentivize enquiry, development and promotion of alternative fuels.
  • Open up new markets to our exports while guaranteeing a level-playing field for American workers.
  • Caring for Our Veterans
We have asked so much of the men and women who have answered the telephone call to serve our country. Our veterans courageously sacrificed for our freedom and security. The very to the lowest degree we must do is keep our hope to them and their families when they return home.
Veterans deserve the best and most efficient health care possible at the Veterans Administration as well as opportunities to find and keep adept-paying civilian jobs when they leave war machine service. Rita worked with veterans and community leaders to create a model Home Base Iowa program in Clinton that created incentives for veterans to move to Clinton and provided community supports so veterans would have opportunities when they render home. She knows firsthand how valuable veterans are to our communities equally well as the unique challenges they face transitioning dorsum to civilian life.
In Congress, Rita will work to:
  • Increase education, training and amateur programs, and partnerships with public and private businesses for veterans to use their unique skills to strengthen our economy.
  • Invest in mental health and homelessness programs to ensure every veteran receives appropriate services and does not autumn through the cracks.
  • Adequately fund and concord the VA answerable to ensure our veterans get the peak-notch physical and mental health intendance they deserve while opposing risky schemes like privatizing the VA that hand intendance over to for-profit companies.
  • Cut bureaucratic ruby tape, reduce expect times, and aggrandize admission to care, peculiarly for veterans in rural communities like ours.[ten]
"
—Rita Hart's campaign website (2020)[11]

2014

Hart's website highlighted the post-obit campaign themes:[12]

" Equally a state senator, Hart continues to work to improve our local economy, support workforce development, and attract good paying jobs to improve Iowans' quality of life.[10] "

Notable events

2020 elections results challenge (December 2020)

See also: Iowa's 2d Congressional District election, 2020#Aftermath

After the November three, 2020, general election, three recounts were conducted in Iowa'southward 2nd Congressional Commune. Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate ordered recounts in Jasper and Lucas Counties, and Hart requested a full recount of votes in all 24 counties in the district. Subsequently this terminal recount, Mariannette Miller-Meeks was certified as the winner by a margin of vi votes.

In Dec, Hart announced that she would contest the election with the House Administration Committee. The procedure would let Hart and Miller-Meeks to land their cases, utilise depositions, and amendment witnesses and documents. After conducting its ain investigation, the House Administration Committee would submit a report to the full House of Representatives and a uncomplicated bulk vote of the full House would decide the issue.[13] [14] Miller-Meeks was provisionally seated on Jan three, 2021 as the House Administration Committee connected to review the Hart campaign'south claiming.[15]

Entrada donors

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Rita Hart campaign contribution history
Year Office Result Contributions
2014 Iowa Land Senate, District 49  ✔ $225,924
M total raised $225,924

Source: Follow the Money

2020

U.Southward. House Iowa District 2 2020 election - Entrada Contributions
Pinnacle private contributors to Rita Hart'due south campaign in 2020
Unitemized $481,836.00
WEITZ, FRED AND $nineteen,600.00
International Brotherhood of Electric Workers $15,000.00
United Auto Workers $15,000.00
Laborers Union/Midwest Region $15,000.00
American Assn of Nurse Anesthetists $xv,000.00
Elect Democratic Women $15,000.00
American Federation of State/Cnty/Munic Employees $15,000.00
KELLNER, PETER $12,630.00
League of Conservation Voters $12,499.00
Total Raised in 2020 $3,658,640.05
Total Spent $4,143,623.xiii
Source: Follow the Money

2014

Hart won re-election to the Iowa State Senate in 2014. During that ballot cycle, Hart raised a total of $225,924.

2012

Hart won election to the Iowa State Senate in 2012. During that election cycle, Hart raised a total of $387,409.

Scorecards

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2018

In 2018, the Iowa Land Legislature was in session from January 8 through May v.

  • Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to labor issues.
  • The American Bourgeois Union
Legislators are scored on their votes on conservative issues.

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

Personal

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Rita and her husband, Paul, have five children.[18]

See also

External links

  • Search Google News for this topic
  • campaign website
  • Profile from Open States
  • Biography from Project Vote Smart
  • Legislative contour from Project Vote Smart
  • Rita Hart on Facebook
  • Campaign contributions: 2012

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Politician, "Iowa Democrat will challenge election results with House," December ii, 2020
  2. ↑ KWWL, "Rita Hart: At least 22 legally cast ballots in Iowa's 2nd Congressional District were non counted," January 3, 2021
  3. ↑ Politico, "Democrat drops election competition in Iowa House race," March 31, 2021
  4. ↑ Iowa Secretary of Country, "Official chief election candidate listing," accessed March eighteen, 2014
  5. ↑ Iowa Secretarial assistant of State, "Official principal election results," accessed June 30, 2014
  6. ↑ Iowa Secretary of State, "Official general election candidate list," accessed July 7, 2014
  7. ↑ Iowa Secretary of Country, "Official general election results," accessed Dec 1, 2014
  8. ↑ Iowa Secretary of Country, "Official Chief Results," accessed October 1, 2014
  9. ↑ Iowa Department of Elections, "2012 Primary Candidates," accessed April 17, 2012
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Whatever inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  11. ↑ Rita Hart's 2020 campaign website, "Issues," accessed October 15, 2020
  12. ↑ ritahart.org, "About Rita," accessed September 25, 2014
  13. ↑ KWWL, "Iowa Republicans urge U.S. House to reject Hart's appeal in 2nd Congressional District race," Dec fifteen, 2020
  14. ↑ Associated Press, Iowa Democrat asks House to review 6-vote race, cites errors, December 22, 2020
  15. ↑ [https://kwwl.com/2021/01/03/rita-hart-at-least-22-legally-bandage-ballots-in-iowas-2nd-congressional-district-were-non-counted/ KWWL, "Rita Hart: At least 22 legally cast ballots in Iowa's second Congressional Commune were not counted," Jan iii, 2021
  16. ↑ ACLU Iowa, "Legislative Report & Civil Liberties Scorecard," accessed July 11, 2017
  17. ↑ ACLU of Iowa, "Legislative Written report & Ceremonious Liberties Scorecard," accessed July eleven, 2017
  18. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named website
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Preceded past
Hubert Houser (R) 		Iowa State Senate District 49
2013-2019 		Succeeded by
Chris Cournoyer (R)

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