Muscatine native runs for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District

MUSCATINE — Last week, Muscatine native and seventh-generation Iowan Taylor Wettach kicked off his campaign to represent Iowa’s 1st Congressional District.

Wettach, a first-time candidate, raised over $175,000 within a day of announcing his candidacy, said a press release from his campaign.

During the campaign launch, Wettach underscored his plans to stand up for working Iowans by taking on the affordability crisis, defending healthcare and protecting Social Security, and leveraging his experience standing up to companies and advising and negotiating with the federal government on multibillion-dollar economic matters as a trade and national security lawyer to create policies that put Iowans first, the press release said.

Wettach is commitment to restoring the damage done by Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ failed policies, said his campaign, noting Miller-Meeks’ vote to cut healthcare access for more than 100,000 Iowans.

The 34-year-old Wettach has worked as an international trade and national security lawyer and lives in Muscatine with his wife, Megan Yao.

Citing a need to put Iowans ahead of “political party leaders and corporate interests,” Muscatine attorney Taylor Wettach on Tuesday announced he is running for the U.S. House in Eastern Iowa’s 1st Congressional District.