Terry McGovern
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Terry McGovern (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Iowa House of Representatives to represent District 67. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
McGovern completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Iowa House of Representatives District 67
Craig Johnson defeated Terry McGovern in the general election for Iowa House of Representatives District 67 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Craig Johnson (R) | 67.9 | 9,213 |
 | Terry McGovern (D)  | 32.1 | 4,358 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 7 | ||
| Total votes: 13,578 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 67
Terry McGovern advanced from the Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 67 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Terry McGovern | 99.4 | 1,049 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.6 | 6 | ||
| Total votes: 1,055 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 67
Craig Johnson advanced from the Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 67 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Craig Johnson | 99.8 | 1,725 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 3 | ||
| Total votes: 1,728 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Terry McGovern completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by McGovern's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Terry McGovern, Lt Colonel, US Air Force (retired), Democrat. Born/raised in Epworth, Iowa. Father was a teamster truck driver and Korean War vet. I grew up in a family with 11 kids (8 boys, 3 girls) of the 8 boys, 6 were veterans. I put myself through the U of Iowa with ROTC scholarship. Served 20 years on active duty--nuclear missile ops, space ops, Pentagon Ops center, and management professor. Current business professor with U Wisconsin-Parkside. Two doctorates in business, plus 3 master’s. Married to my wife Jen (28 yrs) & raising 4 children in the country south of Petersburg, Iowa. I am the Scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 60 in Dyersville and a karate instructor with Dyersville Karate Club; 5 x black belts. Practicing Catholic.
- Iowa needs workers. Quality schools, affordable colleges, will attract working families to our state.
- Quality of life initiatives such as quality and affordable healthcare and childcare will attract working families to our state.
- I fully support women's reproductive rights. Government needs to keep out of a woman's private medical decisions.
I am motivated to help working families prosper because when they are doing well, the state of Iowa does well. So I am passionate about policies that support working families with better pay, more affordable services such as childcare, healthcare, and education. I am focused on bringing Iowa's K-12 education system to being the nation's premier public education system as it was many years ago. The best investment we can make in our state is in our children--they are the future. While I understand the costs need to be managed, we also need to consider the costs of NOT having a well educated citizenry and the penalties that come with that, to include less business investment in our communities. As a veteran, I am also concerned about critical infrastructure security such as our energy and agriculture. Talks of rolling blackouts last summer concerned me greatly, Iowa cannot have an energy system that could potentially fail during winter months with extreme weather such as polar vortexes. I support nuclear energy as a carbon-free, reliable, source with a small footprint. I know atomic energy has high up-front costs, but these pale compared to the massive costs we face with blackouts during extreme cold events. In terms of ag, too much ag land is being purchased by outside parties, putting our food production at risk. This combined with more corporate farming, we are creating an unsustainable farming culture. America needs farmers, farmers need support to thrive.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
Current members of the Iowa House of Representatives
Leadership
Majority Leader:Bobby Kaufmann
Minority Leader:Brian Meyer
Representatives
District 1
J.D. Scholten (D)
District 2
Robert Henderson (R)
District 3
Thomas Jeneary (R)
District 4
Skyler Wheeler (R)
District 5
Zach Dieken (R)
District 6
Megan Jones (R)
District 7
Vacant
District 8
Ann Meyer (R)
District 9
Henry Stone (R)
District 10
John Wills (R)
District 11
Craig Williams (R)
District 12
Steven Holt (R)
District 13
Travis Sitzmann (R)
District 14
Jacob Bossman (R)
District 15
Matt Windschitl (R)
District 16
David Sieck (R)
District 17
Devon Wood (R)
District 18
Tom Moore (R)
District 19
Brent Siegrist (R)
District 20
Josh Turek (D)
District 21
Brooke Boden (R)
District 22
Samantha Fett (R)
District 23
Ray Sorensen (R)
District 24
Sam Wengryn (R)
District 25
Hans Wilz (R)
District 26
Austin Harris (R)
District 27
Kenan Judge (D)
District 28
David Young (R)
District 29
Brian Meyer (D)
District 30
Megan Srinivas (D)
District 31
Mary Madison (D)
District 32
Jennifer Konfrst (D)
District 33
Ruth Gaines (D)
District 34
Rob Johnson (D)
District 35
Sean Bagniewski (D)
District 36
Austin Baeth (D)
District 37
Barb McCulla (R)
District 38
Jon Dunwell (R)
District 39
Rick Olson (D)
District 40
Bill Gustoff (R)
District 41
Ryan Weldon (R)
District 42
Heather Matson (D)
District 43
Eddie Andrews (R)
District 44
Larry McBurney (D)
District 45
Brian Lohse (R)
District 46
Dan Gehlbach (R)
District 47
Carter Nordman (R)
District 48
Chad Behn (R)
District 49
District 50
Ross Wilburn (D)
District 51
Brett Barker (R)
District 52
David Blom (R)
District 53
Dean Fisher (R)
District 54
Joshua Meggers (R)
District 55
Shannon Latham (R)
District 56
Mark Thompson (R)
District 57
Pat Grassley (R)
District 58
Charley Thomson (R)
District 59
District 60
District 61
District 62
Jerome Amos (D)
District 63
Michael Bergan (R)
District 64
Jason Gearhart (R)
District 65
Shannon Lundgren (R)
District 66
Steven Bradley (R)
District 67
Craig Johnson (R)
District 68
Chad Ingels (R)
District 69
Tom Determann (R)
District 70
Norlin Mommsen (R)
District 71
Lindsay James (D)
District 72
Jennifer Smith (R)
District 73
Elizabeth Wilson (D)
District 74
Eric Gjerde (D)
District 75
Bob Kressig (D)
District 76
Derek Wulf (R)
District 77
Jeff Cooling (D)
District 78
Angel Ramirez (D)
District 79
Tracy Ehlert (D)
District 80
Aime Wichtendahl (D)
District 81
Daniel Gosa (D)
District 82
Bobby Kaufmann (R)
District 83
Cindy Golding (R)
District 84
Thomas Gerhold (R)
District 85
Amy Nielsen (D)
District 86
David Jacoby (D)
District 87
Jeff Shipley (R)
District 88
Helena Hayes (R)
District 89
Elinor Levin (D)
District 90
Adam Zabner (D)
District 91
Judd Lawler (R)
District 92
Heather Hora (R)
District 93
Gary Mohr (R)
District 94
Mike Vondran (R)
District 95
Taylor Collins (R)
District 96
Mark Cisneros (R)
District 97
Ken Croken (D)
District 98
Monica Kurth (D)
District 99
Matthew Rinker (R)
District 100
Blaine Watkins (R)
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Vacancies (1)
