Cedar Rapids pastor second Democrat to announce run against Hinson for 2nd District congressional seat
CEDAR RAPIDS — A Cedar Rapids pastor is launching a campaign for Iowa’s Second District seat in the US House that includes Cerro Gordo, Worth, Mitchell, Floyd and Butler counties in our immediate listening area, and is currently held by Republican Ashley Hinson.
Clint Twedt-Ball co-founded the housing and food service nonprofit “Matthew 25” nearly two decades ago. He says that experience has given him a firsthand understanding of the affordability issues northeastern Iowans face and the tools needed to solve them.
Twedt-Ball, who was born in Harlan and is the son of a pastor, is 54. If elected, Twedt-Ball says he’d work to preserve Medicaid and Social Security and find ways to spur economic development in small towns.
He’s the second Democrat to announce this month they’re running in the second congressional district. Retired Army nurse and former dean of the Kirkwood Community College nursing program Kathy Dolter has filed the paperwork to start a campaign for the seat.
