Senator, Iowa State Senate, District 28, 2023-present

Senator, Iowa State Senate, District 4, 2012-2023

Candidate, Iowa State Senate, District 4, 2020

Chairman, Ell Township Republicans, 1994-2006

Member, Appropriations Committee

Member, Health and Human Services Committee

Member, Local Government Committee

Vice Chair, Subcommittee on Administration and Regulation Appropriations

Member, Workforce Committee

Former Member, Commerce Committee, Iowa State Senate

Former Vice Chair, Ethics Committee, Iowa State Senate

Former Member, Rules and Administration Committee, Iowa State Senate

Farmer, Guth Farms Incorporated

Member, Let Us Vote Iowa, present

Member, Elder Board, Britt Evangelical Free Church, present

Member, Corn Association

Member, Family Leader/ Iowa Family Policy Center

Member and President, Hancock County Farm Bureau

Member, Hancock County Pork Producers

Chair, Klemme Area Development Organization

Member, National Rifle Association

Member, Soybean Association

Number of Grandchildren:

10

Priority Issues:

*Stop and reverse federal encroachment on Iowa's sovereignty and state's rights.
*Defend Iowa's "English Only" law; and promote laws which prohibit illegal aliens from employment and state benefits.
*Reduce the power and scope of unelected bureaucracies.
*Restore the right of parents to direct their children's education, and Keep control of schools with the local school board, not with state or federal agencies.
*Defend Iowa's "Right to Work" law.
*Defend Iowans from excessive, unjustified and punitive taxation.
*Restore and defend the right to life of all innocent persons, from fertilization to natural death.
*Restore our right to keep and bear arms and Defend against any infringement on the right to keep and bear arms.
*Restore traditional marriage by calling for a constitutional amendment which defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman.