Voters elected Sen. Christ Cournoyer, R-LeClaire, to a second state senate time period Tuesday evening. She defeated Jed Ganzer, an educator from DeWitt for Senate District 35.
Cournoyer thanked supporters at a marketing campaign occasion for Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks on Tuesday evening. She touted latest Republican-backed tax cuts and stated she seemed ahead to persevering with within the senate.
District 35 consists of LeClaire and northern Scott County, Clinton County and Maquoketa.
Cournoyer flipped the seat to Republican management in 2018 to her first time period.
She is a former faculty board member and chairs the subcommittee that writes the state’s schooling price range.
Cournoyer has touted the state’s price range surpluses and Republican-backed tax cuts handed in 2021 that eradicated earnings taxes for retirees and removed a progressive earnings tax system for a 3.9% flat tax.
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Ganzer, a particular schooling trainer in Davenport, stated on the marketing campaign path his high precedence is funding the state’s public schooling system at the next charge.
The 2 disagree on the state offering funding for households to assist with personal faculty bills, a proposal Gov. Kim Reynolds has championed however that has failed within the statehouse up to now two classes.