Stewart won’t seek re-election
Iowa Sen. Roger Stewart, D-Preston, said this morning he won’t seek re-election next year.
First elected in 2002, Stewart said he’d planned on two terms and now will bow out.
“It’s not something that came overnight,” he said. Stewart, who is 78, says he’ll keep busy at a local bank and on his son’s farm.
He lists expansion of health care, raising the minimum wage and balancing budgets as accomplishments.
There probably will be a number of suitors for the seat, which includes the city of Clinton and parts of Clinton, Jackson and Dubuque counties.