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Des Moines, Iowa
Joined November 2019
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.@RobSandIA wants to dig into private schools’ books because, as he puts it, they might be misspending ESA money. Iowa City schools literally ARE misspending millions in taxpayer funds. But now it's suddenly not his problem.
📸 PICTURED: Rob Sand in 2023 presenting his "PIE Award" for fiscal efficiency to Iowa City Public Schools. Since then, we've learned that they violated state law by moving $38M without required board approval. They also overspent their capital projects fund by $45M over the last four fiscal years. They've now had to take out an $8M loan just to meet their cash-flow needs in the current school year. Our state's third largest school district has spent years wasting our money and the 'Auditor' gave them an award for it.
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📥 INBOX: 🧵 #iasen
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😂 College GameDay in Iowa… where the signs are almost as entertaining as the game. Rob Sand made an appearance at GameDay, and apparently someone in the crowd came prepared. 😂 Only in Iowa. 🌽🏈 GameDay crowds do not disappoint. 👀😂
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Once upon a time, Rob Sand was a fashion model in Europe. Don't be fooled by his campaign fairy tale. Today, Rob Sand is modeling as a moderate. If elected, Rob Sand will push his liberal agenda across Iowa. Vote @ZachLahn for governor.
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Imagine letting manure run off to your neighbor’s creek (many, many times), then playing victim, saying that’s just what farmers do, and then campaigning on water quality.
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Senior Advisor to Deidre Dejear weighs in.
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It shouldn’t happen and I don’t condone it. But don’t for a moment try and claim any moral high ground. Rob has made my minor children the subject of his campaign - personally talking about them. I plan to have very direct words w/Rob about that as well.
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My dad grew up farming and my uncles have farmed in Iowa their entire lives, and I genuinely can’t imagine being this confidently ignorant about the people who literally feed you. “Farming isn’t that hard” and farmers only work “a few weeks out of the year” might be 2 of the most ignorant statements I’ve ever heard. Chris, work ONE full day on a farm. I dare you.
New from @IAFieldReport: Iowa Democrat Chris Jones says farming "isn't that hard" and says Iowa farmers are "only working a few weeks out of the year." This is on video. This is who wants to be Iowa's Secretary of Agriculture. 👇 #iapolitics
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Contrary to this @DMRegister story by @sgrubermiller, congressional candidate Mark Andersen a/k/a Marco Battaglia cannot be replaced on the ballot. A quick Iowa election law 🧵
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No one in my family had gone to college. It was a luxury we couldn't afford. So I fought for everything: the Army, nursing school, medical school, and the honor of caring for SE Iowa families. That's not special - it's just Iowa. And it's why I'll always fight for you.
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You could win the current house seats if you don’t run lunatics.
It looks to me like Hong is going to win the primary and lose the general. The real loss for Ds here is that they will be throwing away 2 house seats in 2027 redistricting. The environment does not matter that much for a governor race.
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Speaker @MikeJohnson joined Rep. @millermeeks and Marion County Sheriff Sandholdt in Pella to highlight liberal Christina @BohannanIowa’s record of attacking law enforcement and supporting policies that would make Iowa less safe.
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You assumed all of your deleted posts don't live forever in screenshots... These are your own posts / reposts showing how you killed the ONLY deal to save school choice that was on track to pass (night of June 11 / morning of the 12th). Why did you delete the posts...? Just so everyone reading is clear how you all played Russian roulette with 100,000 kids in Arizona: There was a bipartisan deal June 11th - with provisions that a super-majority of AZ voters support - until you all found out, and pushed heavy on the "No Deals!" narrative. You amplified the Scot Mussi's (@azfec) legislative action alert called "Don't Cut a Deal that Kills ESAs!" with a URL that is called ".../no-deal," which sent emails to legislators during the GOP caucus on the 11th (that action alert now deleted, your posts now deleted... screenshots below). On the morning of the 12th, @JasonBedrick and @DeAngelisCorey from @Heritage reposted Pam Kirby’s "Reject the deal! Don't be weak!" with Jason’s (now deleted) action alert. Jason posted against “this crummy anti-ESA deal” and “Keep it up!" on the morning of June 12th with the action alert (you forgot to delete that one). @matthewladner reposted. Jason posted after “Your calls/emails are working!” and that reporting for nationally norm referenced tests was out.” (That post now deleted) Deal dead morning of the 12th. And damage done so that any further deal would be poisoned from the start. You then demanded changes in subsequent deals that developed on the 12th. Those changes didn't have the votes. We at AFC still supported any deal that would stop the unions' school choice-killing initiative before the legislative session clock would run out. Zero Dems supported the final deal. Legislative session over. After session ends on the Friday the 12th, @ClarkRimsza posts on @AZlovesESAs that “Yes, there was a potential deal on the table” but you opposed it “because there are "non-negotiables” (that Instagram post now deleted). A note on the “non-negotiables” / “red lines” that you all keep mentioning: every universal ESA program - except Arizona - in the country has a reporting mechanism where some or all general population students in the program will report out nationally norm referenced tests. 84% of Arizona private schools already administer these tests (Common Sense Institute survey). All Florida and Arkansas homeschoolers receiving the ESA report out these tests results or submit a portfolio like in Utah - and the results are always FANTASTIC for school choice kids. It blunts the union assaults on these programs. Arizona polling confirms this: When asked if ESA students should “take a national or state test that measures academic progress” 80% of Arizona GOP voters agreed, 80% of ESA supporters agreed - as did 68% of ESA families. On June 14th, we sent an email alert that 100,000 Arizona kids are in serious jeopardy of losing their scholarships and detailed how it happened. This would be the biggest catastrophe in the history of the school choice movement. You all scramble to delete your posts. On June 24th, you all halfheartedly wake up to that reality, posting about your support for a deal in a possible special session to advance modest changes and drop the petitions. Clock is ticking until the July 1 deadline for any special session. I realize this is what you'd all urgently like credit for. By June 29th, Jason writes a blog post with thousands of words lamenting how BAD any slight tweak is, with a sheepish line 26 paragraphs into it about needing to support a deal or holding out for more revisions. But Jason was privately messaging lawmakers admitting that these changes aren't "a big deal" and "affect a very small number of families." Which is it? (screenshots in thread) The reality: In order for any Arizona special session to happen this past week, Dems had to get on board. Yet you all push for MORE changes to the deal, and those changes had absolutely no chance of getting a special session called. The last "1 for 1 trade” deal had less than 1% chance of a single Dem supporting. We at AFC still supported the deal as we will support any chance to stop catastrophe. Dems don’t agree to a special, no session happens. In summary: You all blew up the bipartisan deal on the 11th through the morning of the 12th (deleting every post that you could that showed the evidence). All subsequent deals, which AFC backed fully, had slimmer chances thereafter, and incredibly, you pushed for a weaker deal along the way as the Dems had all the leverage. This isn't a game. After you all blew up the best chance to stop it, 100,000 Arizona kids - curiously not mentioned in your overnight social media barrage about yourselves - remain at severe risk. I stand by everything we said about who's at fault. And we'll keep standing up for the kids. - By the way, let's be clear: the only reason ANY deal was possible? The unions' school-choice-killing petition was stymied from guaranteed victory by the petition efforts we supported with Fortify. If Fortify didn't intervene, the unions would have had 500,000+ signatures, easily, in early June. In that scenario, no legislative deals to stop them, and no way to stop their massive GOTV operation once they are on the ballot.
It’s astounding how willing @Tommy_USA of @SchoolChoiceNow is to lie and blame other people for his own failures. He claims that I and my @Heritage colleagues opposed an ESA deal, when I literally wrote articles in support of it (despite the flaws AFC introduced that ESA parents opposed) and every single local activist knows how hard we worked to make a deal happen. It was Tommy’s insane antics, attacking an influential state senator, that did more to damage the prospects of a deal than anything. See Tommy’s fact-free rant below. azfreenews.com/2026/06/jason…
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“We ring up public schools every single year from the Auditor’s Office for misspending money.” Alarm bells were ringing in Iowa City & you did NOTHING. If your job as State Auditor is not to “find” misspent taxpayer dollars - you are no watchdog. You’re a lapdog.
I know you guys are from out of town like your candidate so I’ll fill you in: nearly all Iowa public schools use a private auditor and have since before my time- including Iowa City, Des Moines, and Cedar Rapids. So there's nothing our office was responsible to "find.” Also, the PIE Program efficiency award is completely unrelated to audits. You probably know all this and don’t care. That’s on you. 🤷‍♂️
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“I’m a Democrat and I support Ashley Hinson for Senate” Read more from my friend, Doug:
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Asked about her vote to make it easier for sex offenders to get off the registry, liberal Christina @BohannanIowa had nothing to say. Her staff then jumped in with a "detailed" policy response: HONK. HONK.
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