About Kris

Kris Williams—Northwest Iowa Roots

I'm Kris Williams. I've lived all over northwest Iowa—Holstein, Le Mars, Cherokee, Inwood, Sioux City, and now Fort Dodge. Before I was 18, I moved over 30 times. Seven different school districts. Time in foster care. My mom worked two or three jobs after the Tyson plant closed, and I started buying groceries for my family at 16.

I know what it's like to wonder if the car will start. I know what it's like to choose between a bill and food.

I also know that hard work alone isn't enough when the system is rigged. That's why I went back and got a degree in Sustainability Management—to understand how to actually fix the systems that keep working families down. I also got experience working on the Siouxland Community Action Agency board, fighting for pre‑K and early Head Start, because investing in kids is the only way to break generational poverty.

Now I'm running for Iowa House District 08 because I got tired of watching my neighbors struggle while corporations get another tax break. My opponent, Ann Meyer, has taken over $160,000 from nursing home and health insurance PACs. She chairs the budget committee for health and human services. I'm taking $0 from corporate PACs. I answer to the people of Fort Dodge, Badger, Lehigh, and Otho.

If you're tired of being told the system works while you're barely getting by—I'm your guy. Let's build something better, together.

The "Why"?

I'm not a politician. I never planned to be one. But I got tired of watching people I love get crushed by a system that's rigged against them. When you get tired enough, you stop complaining, and you run.

I see the system is rigged. I see our tax dollars going to handouts for massive corporations and funding war crimes overseas, including genocide in Gaza. This happens while our communities are left with crumbling roads, underfunded schools, and families who struggle to get ahead, no matter how hard they work.

I'm running because we deserve better. We deserve a government that fights for people who make this state run: the workers, the educators, the family farmers, and the small business owners.

The "Fight"?

My campaign is built on one simple idea: People Over Profit. That means fighting for affordable healthcare, fully funded education, and an economy where hard work is actually rewarded.

Now, I grew up around people who were struggling. And when people struggle, they get mad. They get told to blame someone—immigrants, people on assistance, trans kids, whoever the politicians want to point at that week.

But I looked around. I saw that the people I was being told to blame were struggling just like me. And the people who were actually doing fine? They were the corporations—the insurance companies. The politicians taking their money.

That's when I realized: the problem isn't my neighbor. The problem is a system where a few people get rich while the rest of us fight over scraps.

This is a grassroots campaign. People, not corporate PAC money, power us. I'm not asking for your vote; I want to earn it. I'm asking for the chance to go to Des Moines and be a voice for the people who have been left behind.

I didn't ask to run. But they left me no choice. They've been running this system for people like them for too long. Now it's our turn.