Iowa U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks speaks during a news conference Nov. 10, 2021, at the Dahl Old Car Home in Davenport to announce her intention to run for re-election in the new 1st Congressional District, (Meg McLaughlin/Quad City Times)
With a backdrop of spotless cars that spanned the decades of the 20th century in Dahl Ford’s Old Car Home in Davenport, Mariannette Miller-Meeks told dozens of Republicans she’d work to bring down rising prices and be a check on the Biden administration if reelected to Congress.
It was June, seven months after she announced her intention to seek re-election, and the average price of gasoline that day was $4.62 a gallon â nearing Iowa’s peak before falling under $4 in late summer.
