Candidate Yang plans visit to Charles City

To The Press

Andrew Yang, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, will visit Charles City next week, his campaign announced Thursday.

Yang will be at the Charles City Public Library at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 22, as part of a 17-day Iowa bus tour leading up to the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses.

Yang is an attorney and former tech executive who founded the economic development nonprofit organization Venture for America to focus on creating jobs in cities struggling after the recession of 2007-08.

The Obama administration selected him in 2011 as a “Champion of Change” and in 2015 as a “Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship.” He is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University Law School.

Yang becomes the 12th candidate seeking the Democratic nomination to visit Charles City this campaign season.