Tracy Ehlert is an American politician. She is a
Democrat
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*A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people.
*A member of a Democratic Party:
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representing the 79th district in the
Iowa House of Representatives
The Iowa House of Representatives is the lower house of the Iowa General Assembly, the upper house being the Iowa Senate. There are 100 seats in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing 100 single-member districts across the state, formed ...
.
Political career
In 2017, Ehlert announced she was running to represent District 70 in the Iowa House of Representatives, after former representative
Todd Taylor
Todd Taylor (born May 21, 1966) is the Iowa State Senator from the 40th District. A Democrat, he has served in the Iowa Senate since 2019. Previously between 1995 and 2019 he had served in the Iowa House of Representatives from the 70th Distr ...
decided to run for a seat in the
State Senate.
She was unopposed in the Democratic primary, and went on to win the general election. She is running for re-election in 2020.
Ehlert currently sits on the following committees:
* Economic Growth
* Education
* Human Resources
* Labor
* Education Appropriations Subcommittee
Electoral record
References
Living people
Politicians from Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Democratic Party members of the Iowa House of Representatives
Women state legislators in Iowa
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
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