Iowa House District 26 Monroe · Appanoose · Davis · Wapello
I'm Brett Mohler: neighbor, engineer, father. I'm running for State House to fix what's broken and build what lasts.
Why I'm Running
I'm not a polished politician. I'm a neighbor and a dad who solves problems for a living. In 2024, my son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. A doctor at Monroe County Hospital, our ER, in the middle of the night, knew exactly what she was looking at. Her decision-making saved his life.
So when I talk about healthcare, it's not a policy position. That's my kid.
The Platform
Water. Schools. Healthcare. Three things every family in this district needs, whether you vote red or blue.
The Iowa Healthy Waters Act: a tax credit for every acre under a real nutrient management plan, zero-percent loans for the precision equipment that already reduces runoff, and "Batch & Build" wetlands and saturated buffers.
Iowa has the second-highest cancer rate in the country, and researchers are studying whether nitrates in our water are part of the reason. We should not have to wait for the final answer to clean up our water.
Iowa will spend over $315 million on private-school vouchers in the 2026-27 school year, with the income cap removed. In the program's first year, two-thirds of voucher students were already in private school. This district has almost no private schools, so nearly all of that money walks out of our classrooms. Cap and sunset the vouchers, restore the Area Education Agencies, and fully fund our public schools; three years running, the legislature hasn't even kept up with inflation.
Call it what it is: our tax dollars paying private tuition at schools our kids can't reach.
In February 2026, MercyOne closed its Ottumwa clinic and pointed patients to Centerville. Now Centerville is losing care too: River Hills closes its clinic there on July 31, 2026. Every closure means another hour behind the wheel for a checkup. Pay nurses and doctors to plant roots here on multi-year contracts, and hold the managed-care companies accountable for every rural clinic they starve.
Monroe County Hospital caught my son's Type 1 Diabetes in the middle of the night. That's what a hospital close to home is worth.
The Iowa House passed a right-to-repair bill in April 2026; the Senate let it die. Until it's law, the only thing standing between a farmer and a tractor he can't fix is a non-binding handshake. Codify it: protect IP, protect manufacturers, and give farmers an enforceable standard at three a.m. in the middle of harvest.
Put welders, lathes, and diagnostic equipment back in our high schools. AI is not going to plumb a hospital or run a CNC machine anytime soon. We need plumbers, electricians, and machinists, and the trades deserve fair wages and an apprenticeship pipeline worth the body.
Out-of-state investment firms now own nearly half of Iowa's manufactured-home lots, and they have raised lot rents on fixed-income residents by as much as 69%. Tie lot rent to inflation, triple the Homestead Tax Credit, and freeze property taxes for our seniors.
The District
Monroe, Davis, nearly all of Appanoose, and six townships of rural Wapello. Every one of them has skin in this race. Pick a county.
County seat: Albia
Home. Where Brigitte and I are raising our son, and where an ER doctor at Monroe County Hospital saved his life in the middle of the night.
The Receipts
I build things for a living. So I built a public database of the Iowa statehouse: every bill that came to a recorded floor vote, every roll call on it, and the campaign money behind them, across four General Assemblies. Look up any legislator: who funds them, and how they vote when those donors' lobbyists show up. Including my opponent.
Votes from legis.iowa.gov, 88th through 91st General Assemblies. Campaign finance from IECDB state filings, refreshed weekly.
Where Iowa Ranks
In 2000 an Iowa teacher earned about three percent less than the national average. Today the gap is more than twelve. That shape repeats across health care, water, wages and the farm economy. So I measured it: every number from a federal agency, a state agency or the Legislature's own record, with the source printed next to it. Where Iowa does well, that is on there too. So is everything I could not verify, and why I left it out.
Sources include the Iowa Cancer Registry, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Legislative Services Agency and the Iowa Legislature's published bill histories and lobbyist declarations. Every figure links to the document it came from.
Meet Brett
I grew up in Waterloo and moved to Albia in 2003 before my sophomore year. I've called this district home for 23 years. I met my wife Brigitte here. We're raising our son here, and in 2024, an ER doctor at Monroe County Hospital recognized his Type 1 Diabetes in the middle of the night and saved his life. That's why healthcare isn't an abstraction to me. It's a hospital that stays open, or it isn't.
I was a Republican most of my life. I'm not running on a national party agenda. I'm running on water, schools, and healthcare, because those don't check your voter registration before they hit your family.
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