Marty Chitty

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Nevada Community School District, At-large
Tenure
Present officeholder
Elections and appointments
Last election

June 4, 2024

Education

Other

Worsham College, 1985

Personal
Birthplace
Nevada, Iowa
Religion
Evangelical Lutheran
Profession
Project manager
Contact

Marty Chitty is an officeholder of the Nevada Community School District, At-large.

Chitty (Republican Party) ran for election to the Iowa House of Representatives to represent District 51. He lost in the Republican primary on June 4, 2024.

Chitty completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Marty Chitty was born in Nevada, Iowa. He earned Other education from Worsham College in 1985. His career experience includes working as a project manager. Chitty has been affiliated with:[1]

  • Heartland Senior Services Board
  • Nevada Community School Board
  • Nevada Community Resource Center Board
  • Nevada Boys and Girls Club
  • Nevada Historical Society
  • Nevada Foundation
  • Rotary Club
  • Story County Farm Bureau Board

Elections

2024

See also: Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2024

General election

General election for Iowa House of Representatives District 51

Brett Barker defeated Ryan Condon in the general election for Iowa House of Representatives District 51 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Brett Barker
Brett Barker (R)
 
62.6
 
11,275
Ryan Condon (D)
 
37.3
 
6,719
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
31

Total votes: 18,025
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 51

Ryan Condon advanced from the Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 51 on June 4, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Ryan Condon
 
99.1
 
348
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.9
 
3

Total votes: 351
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 51

Brett Barker defeated Marty Chitty in the Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 51 on June 4, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Brett Barker
Brett Barker
 
59.8
 
1,191
Marty Chitty Candidate Connection
 
40.1
 
799
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
3

Total votes: 1,993
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Campaign finance

Endorsements

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Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Marty Chitty completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Chitty's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I am a fourth-generation Iowan living in the community I was born in. Raised in a farm family, I have farmed myself, but no longer do so.

My wife and I have raised three children on our family's rural home. All going on to graduate college and start their respective careers. I am a project manager presently at a mechanical design and HVAC firm in Ames. My wife is an insurance underwriter in Story City. I am on numerous boards and committees in Nevada proper and several with county wide presence.

I have been a Story County Supervisor and am the current board president on the Nevada CSD and have served there for 15 years.
  • My north star while serving on a taxing entity, county or school, is to be mindful of not asking for anymore tax dollars than are needed to perform the lawful duties of either. Public dollars are often only one step removed from a private citizen or business. No government body should be a holding organization of those dollars unless they have a stated purpose for good.
  • I live in a rural setting, on a gravel road, and I see many of the daily deficiencies and hardships folks in similar circumstances deal with. Public safety is more than law enforcement. It is non-sanctioned bridges and improperly surfaced roads reflecting their traffic volumes. No Iowan should fear a section of roadway going to and from their home. The dollars and the planning and the collective will are sorely needed to mitigated known deficiencies.
  • You have but to immerse yourself in a K-12 school's management to realize over time that many of society's needs are addressed under a school's roof. Education is the primary facet for our schools, but their portfolios have expanded to serve students, and some families, outside a school setting. Early nutrition, weekend nutrition, counseling and basic family needs are but a few addressed in our schools today. Clearly not what is thought of as the delivery of education. There is a dollar commit to all these things and it must be accounted for. The school district is held dearly in many medium and small communities. I would like our DE to formulate the tangible help tools to give a path to these schools to succeed and excel.
Education in all forms as funded by the State of Iowa. The sanctity of farming to be uninfringed by individuals, groups and municipalities. Both row crop and animal ag are bedrock contributors to our state's history, heritage and prosperity. Guarding against foreign acquisitions of our land and easing the transition for generational farmers to succeed.
Ronald Reagan. A gifted orator and man who deeply believed in America and its birthright.

His sunny demeanor made this county believe in itself again after the dark years of Vietnam.
He was ridiculed as a less-than imposing intellect but history shames that once held narrative.

While he was in power, and a politician, his bedrock conviction was service to the American people.
All Mike Rowe's literary works. Profound treatises on a pedestrian approach to a successful life in America.
Humility, to know that knowledge must always be pursued to be an effective leader.

The embedded conviction that your service is only for a finite time and all that you do and touch matter.
Do your organization no harm in your time of service. And always strive to leave it better than when you started your service.
Be available to all that ask of your time. You're never not a districts member representative. They put you there.

Be seen as a resource to all who come in contact with you. Servant leadership is a real thing to be practiced.
Sincerity, humility, a sense of intellectual curiosity and a passion of not taking myself too seriously. It's never about me, it's for whom I am in service to.
Knowledge of the duties and expectations of your office on Day 1.

The extra effort to acquire additional operational insights of State governance quickly.

Attend all given tasks and duties. Show up every day.
The betterment of the institution I served in. Congenial cooperation seeking the very best outcomes and then getting them passed.
The assassination of JFK. I was 5 and watching TV as it was being announced and it had a profound effect on my parents and neighbors. Outright sorrow and somber remorse. It was many days of quiet living that followed. Thanksgiving wasn't a festive gathering either.
You grow in a farm family, and you're the oldest boy, you get to do whatever Dad or Grandad needed you to do.
Until I went off to college.
Profoundly Disconnected by Mike Rowe. A fearless teller of truth and strongly making a compelling case for non-college schooling and debt. This is the great nonserviced part of what once was middle-class America.
Captain Tom Miller. Tom Hanks' character in "Saving Private Ryan".
John Mellencamp's "Rain on The Scarecrow". If you were around ag in Iowa in the 80's you will know why. Haunting even now.
The ache to convey a vision and then aligning the parts, people and facets to get some things done. I several very big wins and some lesser setbacks.
Informed co-existence of discharge of duties. State governance should be by the free-flowing exchange of ideas of both house and the Govenor. There begins policy exchanges and the shaping of legislation.
The movement of opportunity across all of Iowa. Central Iowa and our metro areas will always have some level of success. As a State, we need to push to site any new or existing growth into the lesser populated parts of Iowa. To allow our fellow Iowans to have hope again in their communities.
Yes I do. Private industry or commercial practice seek profit to the exclusion of all else. Governance weighs resources for outcomes.
Yes. Knowledge is readily available by a longer serving member to tighten up your learning curve. There is the likelihood of shared beliefs and approaches that may be amplified by joining in together.
Collective shared institutional knowledge is to be welcomed as it speeds the individual's contribution time.
Brad Zaun, Skyler Wheeler, Lynn Evans, Steve Holt and Amy Sinclair.
I find it most gratifying to be asked to be a reference to a person seeking a new job. I've done this for sitting school superintendents to high school seniors.
To be asked to be job shadowed to see how you learn discernment of issues is touching. You often think nobody cares or notices but that's not been my experience.
Legislature should grant emergency powers with oversight
TEACHIOWA.gov. We need a stand-alone, state hosted website for K-12 educators and paras that is ONLY populated with districts seeking staff needs. Be it coaching, classroom or administration. A clearinghouse for new and local plus out-of-state teachers to see the positions available.
Education, agriculture and government.
You are the steward of people's hard-earned dollars. Thoughtless flippancy of any spending of those dollars is a breach of fiduciary correctness.
All spending should have a clear path seen from acquisition to expenditure.

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Campaign finance summary


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Marty Chitty campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* Iowa House of Representatives District 51Lost primary$15,924 $13,411
Grand total$15,924 $13,411
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 6, 2024


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