Dave Williams

Running for Iowa’s 60th House District

Dave Williams is an engineer. He believes that an engineering mindset is what the Iowa House lacks. He brings with him 36 years of experience in engineering and management at John Deere. He has also taught at the University of Northern Iowa and owned a small business. Dave has the knowledge to address some of Iowa’s most pressing issues. He will put in place sustainable manufacturing and agricultural solutions. He will fund public education. He will support the small businesses that create quality jobs.

I’ve spent my life working on problems and ideas, finding solutions, and implementing them. The State Legislature needs more problem solvers and that’s what I’m ready to do. I believe in win-win negotiations to make the pie larger for everyone. Our politics has become divisive and petty and too often politicians put party over people. I’m running to focus on the core issues that unite us, like building a strong economy that provides good jobs with benefits, world class public schools, quality and affordable health care and safe local communities.

Dave is running against Republican incumbent Walt Rogers, who happens to be Dave’s next-door neighbor. Rogers is the chair of the House Education Committee. He has overseen the cutting of state university funding and minimal increases in the K-12 budget that have not kept up with higher costs. He wants to institute a voucher system that would allow parents to use public money to send their children to private schools. This would undermine an already struggling public school system in Iowa. Additionally, Rogers has supported the most extreme Republican legislation during his eight years in office, including attempts to ban same-sex marriage and to end all licensing and registration of guns.

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