Rob Sand Details Plans to Tackle Costs, Corruption, and Cancer in KCCI Interview

DES MOINES, IA – Last week, nominee for governor Rob Sand sat down with KCCI’s Chief Political Reporter Amanda Rooker to discuss his vision for the future of Iowa and how he’ll get to work tackling the state’s biggest challenges. During the interview, Rob detailed his plans to lower costs for working families, make state government more accountable, improve access to health care, and address Iowa’s cancer crisis starting on day one.

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• With just weeks until Election Day, Democrat Rob Sand is offering new details about what he would change if elected Iowa’s next governor, including how he would address the state’s budget, water quality, Medicaid and education.

• Sand has made cancer and water quality central themes of his campaign. He told KCCI he wants to expand conservation programs for farmers, restore more wetlands and fund the state’s Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Trust Fund, known as IWILL.

• He estimated that legalizing recreational marijuana could generate about $300 million in annual revenue for the state. Sand said he would regulate marijuana similarly to alcohol, including age limits and restrictions on advertising to children and public use.

• Sand also said he would seek to limit Iowa’s Education Savings Account program to families earning up to 200% of the federal poverty level. The program, which provides state money that families can use toward private school expenses, is currently available regardless of income.

• On healthcare, Sand said he would begin the process of ending Iowa’s current privatized Medicaid system on his first day in office. He clarified that the transition would take time and said he would most likely seek to move the program to nonprofit managed care rather than return it directly to state management.

• Sand also discussed proposals to restrict social media access for children, impose term limits and other requirements on elected officials and laid out the issues he would ask lawmakers to address first if elected.