Hunter
03/20/25
A bill passed Tuesday by the Iowa House would require that the state’s most populous counties or those that are home to Iowa’s three public universities change the way they elect their supervisors.
The Gazette reports House File 786, which passed along party lines, would require that supervisors be elected from single-member, equal-population districts in counties with populations of 125,000 or more or which are home to one of Iowa’s three public universities — Johnson, Story and Black Hawk.
Democratic Representative Adam Zabner of Iowa City called the bill “a blatant political effort to change who is elected in these counties, to take down supervisors who have been elected by the voters. “
A companion bill has already passed the Iowa Senate, meaning the bill will go to Governor Kim Reynolds’ desk to be signed.
Johnson County Supervisor Jon Green posted the following on Facebook yesterday: “The Iowa Farm Bureau has so degreed, and thine shall be done. Spoiler alert: I’ll beat their candidate, if they can field one.”