Northwest Iowa (RI) — State Auditor and Democratic candidate for governor Rob Sand will be making 14 campaign stops in northwest Iowa this week. He will be in Osceola, Lyon, Sioux, O’Brien, and two other counties this Tuesday.
Sand launched a 100-town hall tour of the state last week. He asked the first two crowds in central Iowa to sing “America the Beautiful” together. Sand says it’s a unifying exercise at a time when politics seems unhealthy.
One audience member asked Sand if he’s a strong or a moderate Democrat — and Sand replied that he doesn’t like labels. Sand told Radio Iowa he chose long ago to be in the Democratic Party, saying, “I grew up watching Bill Clinton at the State of the Union brag about balancing the budget and paying down the debt and I thought: ‘I like that. That’s good. My faith is a big motivator for why I signed up as a Democrat. I think that the Democratic Party, at least the way I see it, is the party of the little guy.”
Sand says there are some Republicans he has an easier time working with than Democrats and a lot can get done in a politically divided government, but Sand says with a Republican-led legislature, he’d likely veto some bills.
This Tuesday’s stops are in Osceola, Lyon, Sioux, Plymouth, Cherokee, and O’Brien counties. On Wednesday, Sand’s town halls are scheduled in Clay, Buena Vista, Pocahontas, and Palo Alto counties.
Sand will be at the Sibley Public Library at 9:00 a.m., the Forster Community Center in Rock Rapids at 11:00 a.m., the Sioux Center Public Library at 1:30 p.m., and the Yesterday’s Memories museum in Sanborn at 8:00 p.m., all on Tuesday, July 1st.
