IA-02: Rita Hart (D)
PROFILE
About Hart:
Rita Hart is a lifelong Iowan, farmer, and 20-year educator. She grew up in Charles City, Iowa in a “divided household” — her mom a Republican, her dad a Democrat. Her mother spent most of her life with a damaged heart, weakening her health, breathing, and, as a result, even the ability to talk — allowing her to speak with just a whisper. She raised nine children, with that whisper.
Her mother taught her “the most important voices in the room aren’t necessarily the loudest or the most powerful. Leaders listen to the voices that they have to lean in to hear.”