Meet Taylor
Born and raised in Muscatine, Taylor Wettach is a seventh-generation Iowan and understands deeply the challenges families across the state are facing today. His mom was a preschool teacher who believed every child deserves a strong start. His dad was a family doctor who cared for entire communities, no matter who they were or how they voted. And his great-grandpa served rural Iowa as a Farm Security Administration supervisor, helping farm families stay afloat during hard times.
Growing up, Taylor learned values the Iowa way – through public schools, church pews, family farms, and small towns where everyone knows your name and your word still matters. He was raised to believe that faith calls us to responsibility, and that real strength comes from service, not power; from fairness, not favoritism; and from community, not greed.
Those values shaped his life and led Taylor to become an attorney with a dream of supporting his community and serving his country As a trade and national security lawyer, Taylor spent his career negotiating with major corporations and the federal government, and also advising senior government officials, on some of the toughest legal and policy issues facing our country. While honing his legal expertise and financial literacy, Taylor’s career has required an ethical commitment to upholding the law, truth, and fairness – especially in the face of powerful interests.
Taylor was recruited to take a position in the federal government with a top-level security clearance protecting our economic security, until his position was impacted by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Then, Donald Trump targeted Taylor’s law firm in an attempt to block legal challenges to his Administration, and the firm cut a deal to do $125 million worth of legal work in support of Trump Administration priorities. Taylor wasn’t raised to look the other way when something is wrong. He refused to compromise his values and be complicit in this abuse of power by the Administration – so he quit.
That moment confirmed something for him: accountability only works if someone is willing to enforce it. Responding to this critical moment, Taylor recommitted himself to apply his training, experience, and conviction in service of the public.
In Taylor’s conversations with family, friends, and neighbors, he saw the same warning signs he experienced nationally here in Iowa – politicians in Des Moines trying to weaken oversight, hide records, and avoid accountability.
Taylor is running for State Auditor to protect taxpayer dollars, root out waste, fraud, abuse, and stand against corruption, making sure Iowa’s government works for the people it serves, not insiders trying to rig the system.
For him, this isn’t about left versus right – it’s about right versus wrong, and whether our government serves the public or the powerful. Iowans deserve an independent watchdog who tells the truth, follows the money, and stands up for taxpayers – no matter who’s in power.