Rob Sand: “Bringing Common Sense Back to Government”

DES MOINES, IA – Last week, candidate for governor Rob Sand brought his 100 Town Hall Tour to Grundy County for his 90th stop, drawing a standing-room-only crowd inside the Community Center. During the town hall, Rob spoke about his record of uncovering waste, fraud, and abuse as State Auditor, and his hope to strengthen Iowa’s public education system, revitalize rural communities, and bring common sense back to Des Moines as Iowa’s next governor.

Read more about Rob’s visit to Grundy Center below:

Marshalltown Times-Republican: Rob Sand brings campaign for governor to Grundy County on final stretch of 100 Town Hall Tour

Grundy County, at least on ballot paper, is very much a red county. “Maybe we should do something about it,” Sand continued. “Instead of just pretending it’s not happening – and continue cheerlead for redder or cheerlead for bluer – maybe we should cheerlead for just better and truer. That’s the heart of this campaign.”
“This is what we get, ladies and gentlemen, from 10 years of one-party control. … Too much power for too few people for too long is bad. … If it feels like your friends in other states are doing better, it’s because they are.”
The words “pragmatic” and “non-partisan” have been used repeatedly, including by Tama-Grundy Publishing, to describe Sand this past year as he stumped from river to river around the state. But being non-partisan does not apparently mean Sand isn’t passionate about the issues.
“There’s a guy that Republicans hired to follow me around for two years, to videotape my interviews. At the end of [the two years] he asked me for a bumper sticker,” Sand shared. “Now he says, ‘If it’s Sand versus at least some of the Republicans, I’ll vote for Sand’.”
That might be all it takes – ‘at least some Republicans’ – to move the needle in next year’s general election and flip the governor’s mansion away from “bluer or redder” to “truer and better,” as Sand so often says.
A lot could happen in a year but one thing appears certain after 120 days of Rob Sand barnstorming: A non-partisan approach to campaigning that simultaneously draws belly fire from pragmatic issues like government waste, public education, rural revitalization, and bringing common sense back to government sure seems to speak to a whole lot of Iowans these days.