Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett has made it official. He is challenging Governor Kim Reynolds for the Iowa Republican Party’s 2018 nomination for governor.
Corbett spoke to a crowd gathered in what has become a thriving neighborhood in Cedar Rapids. In 2008, though, the area was swamped with flood waters. Corbett ran to become the city’s mayor shortly afterwards and led the flood recovery efforts.
Corbett has identified what he calls the “core four” issues he plans to address during the campaign. Improving Iowa’s ECONOMY, the state’s EDUCATION systems and the ENVIRONMENT are on Corbett’s list, along with a call for “concern” for the state’s citizens.
Corbett suggests the state’s “slow growth status” can be reversed by SIMPLIFYING the state’s income tax code and REDUCING taxes on middle income Iowans. Corbett, who is 56 years old, is a native of Pennsylvania who attended Cornell College in Mount Vernon and made the city his home after graduation.
