Category: Rita Hart

Democrat Drops Election Challenge Over Iowa House Race, Giving Republicans Another 2020 Victory

Democrat Rita Hart dropped her election challenge over the Iowa House district that was contested by only six votes, giving Republicans and Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) a final win. Hart on Wednesday announced she is withdrawing her challenge with the House Administration Committee over her loss in Iowa’s Second Congressional District. A number of Democratic…


Iowa Democrat Drops Election Challenge Over House Race, Giving GOP Another 2020 Victory

Iowa Democrat Rita Hart has dropped her election challenge to Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks’s 2020 victory in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. Hart on March 31 withdrew her challenge to her state-certified, six-vote loss with the House Administration Committee. A number of Democratic lawmakers in recent days said House leaders shouldn’t attempt to overturn the election results. “After many…


Rep. Davis Rips ‘Height of Hypocrisy’ in Pelosi Moving to Unseat Iowa GOPer

Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) charged House Democrats Monday with the “height of political hypocrisy” in moving to remove Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) and replace her with the Democrat she defeated last November, Rita Hart. “It’s the height of political hypocrisy for Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to talk just a few weeks ago about…


Rep. Davis Rips ‘Height of Hypocrisy’ in Pelosi Moving to Unseat Iowa Republican

Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) charged House Democrats on March 29 with the “height of political hypocrisy” in moving to remove Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) and replace her with Rita Hart, the Democrat she defeated last November. “It’s the height of political hypocrisy for Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to talk just a few weeks…


The Left’s Legal Top Gun Marc Elias Isn’t Finished With Democracy Yet

This week the House Committee on Administration is taking up the challenge by Rita Hart to have Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks kicked out of Congress. The Democratic candidate for a vacant seat in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, Hart lost by six votes in November to Miller-Meeks, a Republican. The election was properly certified in Iowa, but…


Pelosi Will Steal Seats to Strengthen the Democratic Machine

Commentary Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks is the certified winner of Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District election. In an ironic show of Democratic hypocrisy, her opponent, Rita Hart—with the help of Speaker Nancy Pelosi—is objecting to the election results. Miller-Meeks won by a small margin of six votes, as certified by a bipartisan election board. Hart realized…


Democrat Lawyer Marc Elias Says House Can Overturn Iowa Election, Avoiding State Court

A lawyer for a Democrat who claims she won an election that state officials say she lost argued in a new filing that the House of Representatives can unseat the winner, overruling the election certification. Marc Elias wrote in a brief to the House Administration Committee that the panel should not take any action in…


House Democrats to Challenge Seating of Iowa Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks

Democrats on the House Administration Committee swept aside Republican objections to move forward a challenge to Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks election to represent Iowa’s second congressional district. Miller-Meeks defeated Democrat Rita Hart by six votes after an official recount of the nearly 400,000 cast. Following the recount, Miller-Meeks’ election was certified by Iowa election officials. Miller-Meeks…


House Democrats to Challenge Seating of Iowa GOP Rep. Miller-Meeks

Democrats on the House Administration Committee swept aside Republican objections to advance a challenge to Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks’s election to represent Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. Miller-Meeks defeated Democrat Rita Hart by six votes after an official recount of the nearly 400,000 cast. Following the recount, Miller-Meeks’s election was certified by Iowa election officials. Miller-Meeks was…


Iowa Democrat Hart Asks House to Overturn Her Election Loss

Attorneys for Rita Hart, the Democrat who lost Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District race by six votes, claimed on Dec. 22 they had found enough uncounted ballots to reverse the election outcome. Hart told the House of Representatives in a petition filed under the Federal Contested Elections Act of 1969 that 22 uncounted curbside and absentee…