“Make This Your Second Home”: Rob Sand Opens Cedar Rapids Field Office

Rob Sand: “The more we reach out, the more you make this your second home or your second job between now and November, the better chance we have, because we know this race is going to be close.”

DES MOINES, IA – Yesterday, candidate for governor Rob Sand opened his second field office in Cedar Rapids, joined by a crowd of nearly 90 supporters ready to roll up their sleeves to make Iowa not redder or bluer, but better and truer. 

The office opening comes just days after Rob submitted a record-shattering 24,756 petition signatures — the most ever in Iowa history — and six weeks after the opening of the campaign’s first field office in Des Moines. Rob is building on that momentum to bring together  a broad coalition of Iowans from across the political spectrum who are looking to bring our state in a new direction. The Cedar Rapids office will serve as a hub for supporters across Eastern Iowa — a place to get involved with Team Sand’s work of bringing public service, not politics, back to Iowa. 

Since day one, Team Sand has been investing in organizing efforts across the state, including hiring an organizing team more than 17 months before Election Day. Last year, Rob held 100 public town halls across all 99 counties and connected with more than 10,100 Iowans from all political backgrounds. In just the first 24 hours after launching his campaign, more than 800 Iowans signed up to volunteer. From submitting record-breaking petition signatures to historic fundraising haul, Iowans are sending a clear message that they are tired of politics as usual and ready for change.

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READ: The Daily Iowan: Gubernatorial hopeful Rob Sand opens Cedar Rapids field office

• Sand said he hopes people of all political affiliations will come to the field office and help organize for the campaign because they disagree with the direction Iowa has gone in recent years. He said the office will serve as a place for face-to-face conversations with voters.
• Sand said building relationships across the political divide is essential, and that he hopes Iowa moves away from partisan politics toward a unified state that represents the people. “I’m not standing here as someone who is in love with our two choice political system,” Sand said. “I frankly think that neither party has solved enough problems to deserve a monopoly on our choices at the ballot box.”
• Jane Lonergan-Highley, a Linn County resident and retired educator, said public schools in Iowa have struggled under Reynolds’administration…​Lonergan-Highley said she hopes the new field office will break down partisan barriers in the community. She said Sand has already been widely accessible to voters, but that the field office will only improve his visibility and local connections.
• [Al Willett, a Linn County resident] said Sand is working to bring Iowans from both sides of the aisle together, instead of polarizing people because of their political party. Willett said the stand-alone field office will help bring momentum for the campaign to the eastern half of the state.