Sioux Center, Iowa — Jeff Taylor has made it official. Taylor has been planning to run for the Iowa State Senate seat currently occupied by Randy Feenstra of Hull, who is running for the Republican nomination to unseat Steve King from his Congressional seat in Washington.
Recently Taylor submitted paperwork to the Iowa Secretary of State in order to file for the District 2 State Senate seat. On Thursday, he was notified that his affidavit and petitions have been reviewed and his name will appear on the June 2 Republican primary ballot.
The district includes Sioux County, O’Brien County, Cherokee County, and the eastern-most rural portions of Plymouth County.
Like Feenstra, Taylor is a professor of political science at Dordt University. Born and raised in Northwest Iowa, he is a native of Spencer. Taylor’s office says the candidate graduated from Northwestern College in Orange City and then earned a master’s degree at the University of Iowa and a PhD at the University of Missouri. They say Taylor returned to Sioux County nine years ago to teach at Dordt. He is married and has two children.
The candidate describes himself as “…a constitutional conservative and consistently pro-life.” He says his six key political values are “decentralism, morality, freedom, community, grassroots, and common sense.”
