Liz Mathis, an Iowa state senator, and a top House Democratic candidate has repeatedly claimed over the last decade that she and her husband had a “family-owned business” and that she is an “owner,” but the marketing and advertising firm that she claimed to have owned said she “has never been an owner or co-owner.”
AMPERAGE Marketing & Fundraising reached out to Fox News Digital Wednesday about a separate inquiry when a spokesperson revealed that the “Mathis family has never been an owner, and Mark Mathis is no longer an owner.”
When Fox News Digital followed up to inquire whether this included Liz Mathis, the public relations director said, “Correct, Liz Mathis has never been an owner or co-owner” and confirmed in a follow-up email that Mathis wasn’t an owner of the ME&V firm either before the 2014 merger that created AMPERAGE Marketing & Fundraising.
Mathis’s husband, Mark, stepped down from his ownership role spanning over two decades at the end of 2021 and is currently a “Special Projects Producer” at AMPERAGE.
Between 2011 and 2021, Mathis has portrayed herself as a business owner on at least two financial disclosures, Linkedin, a campaign website, and during an interview just last summer around the same time she announced her candidacy for Congress.
“Mark and I are–we own a family business, it’s an advertising agency and we have 40 employees. And so, he meets the same kind of challenges that I do. Everything could be on fire, but you have to prioritize,” Mathis said in a July 2021 interview on the Real Success with Nate Kaeding podcast.
On Mathis’s Linkedin profile, now-deleted sections listed her as the “Family Owner” of AMPERAGE, and another section said she has “Family co-ownership.” The sections were deleted shortly after Fox News Digital published a piece on her last July.
As a state senator, Mathis repeatedly portrayed herself as a business “owner” or “co-owner,” writing on an archived campaign website from Jan. 2021 that she “and her husband Mark own a marketing and advertising company with offices in Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids and Wausau, Wisconsin.”
