Iowa Education Legislative Watch
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StateIowa House

Matt Rinker Lame duck: leaving office Jan 11

State representative, House District 99

Leaving office Jan 11. Will be replaced by Jennifer Kirkman (Democrat), who won this seat Nov 3 (unofficial results). See Jennifer Kirkman’s profile

Party
Republican
District
House District 99See it on a street map
Committees
3 committees
Tracked votes
94
The record

Voting record

Votes on the education bills we track. Each bill links to its history, text and who sponsored it.

Campaign money

Who funds their campaign

Money given to Matt Rinker’s campaign for the Iowa House, from reports it files with the state. It doesn’t include money raised for any other race, such as a run for Congress, which is reported to the Federal Election Commission instead. We show totals; we don’t name individual donors.

$148,765raised in 2025–26, through Oct 14

  • Individuals
  • PACs
  • Party committees
  • Businesses and other
From Iowa
99%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
32%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 5% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. Republican Party of IowaParty$114,017
  2. Des Moines County Republican Central CommitteeParty$3,000
  3. Iowa Renewable Fuels Association PAC - IRFAPAC$2,000
  4. Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Political Action CommitteePAC$1,500
  5. Iowa Health PACPAC$1,000
  6. Truck PAC Iowa (formerly Motor Carriers PAC)PAC$1,000
  7. Lee County Republican Central CommitteeParty$1,000
  8. Koch, Inc. Political Action Committee (KOCHPAC)PAC$1,000
  9. iowa Hospital Assn PACOrganization$1,000
  10. Hy-Vee, Inc. Employees' Political Action CommitteePAC$500
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$19,75813%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$9,5006%
Party committees State and county party committees$118,01779%
Other candidates Other politicians’ campaign committees$00%
Businesses and other Businesses, groups, unregistered committees and unitemized gifts$1,4901%
In-kind gifts (included above)$114,01777%

Totals cover their campaign committee only, not money spent by outside groups. In-kind gifts count at their reported value. Party money often passes through caucus committees, which show up here as PACs. How we count campaign money

From Iowa Campaign Contributions Received, published by the Iowa Ethics & Campaign Finance Disclosure Commission under CC BY-NC 4.0. We total and summarize the reports as campaigns filed them. Last checked Nov 7.

Where bills start

Committees

Where they serve

House District 99

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Matt Rinker represents House District 99, which takes in parts or all of Des Moines and Lee counties.

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District lines from the US Census Bureau, drawn in Iowa’s 2021 redistricting. Street map © OpenStreetMap contributors, OpenFreeMap.

Legislator details from Open States. Votes last checked Nov 7. Report a mistake