Senate District 18: Liz Mathis
The Cedar Rapids Gazette Editorial Board
The voters of Iowa Senate District 18 face a difficult, high-stakes decision Tuesday.
They will decide who fills a seat vacated by former Sen. Swati Dandekar, D-Marion, who accepted an offer from Gov. Terry Branstad to join the Iowa Utilities Board. With Democrats currently holding a slim one-seat majority in the Senate, the special election will decide whether that majority holds or if the Senate will be tied 25-25.
The campaign has been a six-week whirlwind for Republican hopeful Cindy Golding, a rural Cedar Rapids businesswoman, and Liz Mathis of Robins, communications director for Four Oaks, a child welfare, juvenile justice and behavioral health agency…
We’re also troubled by Golding’s call for holding a vote on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages in Iowa. This editorial page has stood strongly for the right of gay and lesbian Iowans to enjoy civil marriage rights. The fact that Golding would risk those constitutional rights in a divisive public vote to, as she said, take the “spotlight” off Iowa, gave us pause.
In the end, it was a close call. But we think Mathis is the right choice.
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