Nancy Fett
Running for Iowa’s 57th House District
Nancy Fett has taught social work at Loras College for over 22 years. She serves on the Social Work Council, which connects students with service opportunities. She is also the campus Title IX coordinator. Nancy developed grant writing, fundraising, and programming skills as director of twelve I Have a Dream Foundation program sites in the Chicago area. Nancy shares these skills as a volunteer with foundations in her community. She serves on the board of Catholic Charities. Her grant writing knowledge helps committees for the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, United Way, and the Winter Games Special Olympics.
As someone who has spent her life teaching others how to help people, Nancy knows what Iowa needs most. She prioritizes school funding, job training, and healthcare, including mental health and the opioid crisis. She wants to bring commonsense to the statehouse. Nancy points out that the for-profit Medicaid system has resulted in diminished care. This is the opposite of what Republicans promised, yet they continue to insist that a failed system is working. Nancy will work across party lines to address this and other issues.
We have forgotten that the role of government is to work together to resolve issues and to make life better for our constituents. Iowa is at a crossroads. Partisanship and D.C. style politics have infiltrated our state and caused us to neglect the issues impacting our communities. I will work with Democrats, Independents and Republicans to bring our focus back to improving our schools, addressing the healthcare crisis, growing wages and keeping our communities safe.
House District 57 is a working class area where Democrats have an advantage in registration over Republicans. Its previous representative, a popular Democratic businesswoman, retired before the fateful 2016 election. Republican Shannon Lundgren won the district with a margin of less than 5 points, even as Trump took it by 20 points. In her first term, Lundgren has become the face of the GOP’s extreme anti-choice legislation. She mistakenly stated that a 2017 abortion ban would require a woman who had miscarried to continue to carry the dead fetus. Lundgren voted for the bill while under this impression, as did her 10 fellow Republican committee members. Their extreme agenda continued with restrictions to Planned Parenthood funding and a ban on abortions after 6 weeks.
Help Nancy bring the focus back to what Iowans need to make their lives better!
