Christina Bohannan
Background
- Iowa state representative for District 85 in the 89th General Assembly, from January 11, 2021 to January 8, 2023, her only term; the Legislature's record gives her home county as Johnson and her profession as professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law and former engineer with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
- Her campaign biography traces a mobile home in a town of 700, parents who did not finish high school, a father who lost his health insurance after he got sick, a degree in environmental engineering and work as an engineer on water quality, then law school and a long teaching career in Iowa City.
What they say they want to do
- Make the cost of living her first priority, ending the tariffs she says raise prices, curbing corporate price gouging and lowering prescription drug costs.
- Let Iowans buy into Medicare at any age, while opposing a single-payer system, and reverse this year's Medicaid cuts.
- Ban stock trading by members of Congress, the executive branch, Supreme Court justices, their spouses and staff, and require divestment.
- Protect Social Security and Medicare and shore up the trust funds, and expand Medicare to cover dental, vision and hearing care.
What the official record shows
- Sole sponsor of House File 2196 (2022), exempting feminine hygiene and incontinence products from the sales and use tax, introduced and referred to Ways and Means on February 1, 2022 with no further action recorded.
- One of the three members of the first House subcommittee on Senate File 522, on older individuals and dependent adults, named March 10, 2021; that subcommittee recommended passage 3 to 0, the bill reached no House floor vote in 2021, and a second subcommittee that did not include her recommended it again in 2022 before the House passed it 96 to 0; the Senate had passed it 47 to 0, and it took effect July 1, 2022.
- Is listed as a sponsor or floor manager on 33 bills and resolutions in the 89th General Assembly, the only one she served, five of them alone; none of those five advanced past its first committee referral.
Campaign money from other committees, by type
| Transfers from joint fundraising committees (line 12) 8 committees | $856,879 |
|---|---|
| Conduit entries for earmarked individual contributions 1 committee | $2,678,014 |
| Other PACs (no organization type recorded) 79 committees | $310,538 |
| Labor organization PACs 17 committees | $93,500 |
| Membership organization PACs 11 committees | $48,490 |
| Other candidates' committees 17 committees | $34,400 |
| Party committees 3 committees | $10,721 |
| Trade association PACs 1 committee | $5,000 |
Source: Federal Election Commission
Itemized receipts from political committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings through June 30, 2026, grouped by the FEC's recorded organization type or designation of the contributing committee. The conduit row is the exception: it holds what the campaign's own fundraising platform passed through, which the FEC records as a hybrid political action committee rather than by organization type. Table rows other than the transfer and conduit rows sum to $502,648.29, equal to the FEC summary's other-committee plus party contributions. No row appears for corporation-connected PACs, because the filing itemizes no contribution from a committee the FEC records with that organization type. Every other figure here is a sum of the filings' own itemized rows, not the matching line on the FEC's summary of the cycle, and the two can differ by whatever the filings did not itemize. Not in the table: $7,000 of line-11D contributions from the candidate, $34,209.98 of itemized line-14 offsets where the summary says $34,463.63, $2,297.43 of itemized line-15 other receipts where the summary says $2,414.80, $1,000 of line-11AI contributions from organizations, and the memo entries outside the conduit row, which include $60,609.85 restating the transfer row and $245,901.43 that donors earmarked to the campaign through other political committees.