Iowa Senate GOP leader Jack Whitver to move, seek reelection in more rural district

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Des Moines Register: Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver will move from Ankeny and seek reelection in a more rural, conservative district, he announced Monday. Whitver is the top Republican in the Iowa Senate, where his party holds a 32-18 majority. Under the new redistricting boundaries that the Iowa Legislature and Gov. Kim Reynolds approved this fall, Whitver’s current address would put him in the new Ankeny-based Senate District 21. But, in a news release announcing his intention to run for another term, Whitver said he would seek reelection in Senate District 23, which includes most of rural Polk County and parts of rural northeast Dallas County.