Dark Blue Democrats

In a time torn by partisanship and contempt, there’s a lot of reasons that Rob Sand has a “political brand that transcends party lines.”
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Rob Sand Is Making a Difference in Iowa

In Rob’s first term the office has identified more waste, fraud, and abuse than any other single term from any other State Auditor. Rob has also improved accountability for corrupt public officials by creating a position for law enforcement professionals to work on its investigations from Day 1, helping to ensure the investigations will work well in Court.

Rob Sand Making Impact

Time As Assistant Attorney General

Prior to being elected, Rob served as Iowa’s chief public corruption prosecutor and uncovered the largest lottery rigging scheme in American history. It uncovered seven fixed lottery tickets across five states with total face values of nearly $25 million. He also led the prosecution to a resolution between six States and two defendants. All told, three criminals entered guilty pleas to six different counts and agreed to repay every dollar they stole. The leader is now in prison for up to 25 years; the others served time or have a permanent felony conviction.

Accountability

He took the University of Iowa to the Supreme Court (the most liberal public institution in the State of Iowa) and won a victory for transparency. He’s demanded that public employees who commit sexual harassment be held personally accountable for their deeds, to reduce losses to taxpayers and better discourage harassment. He had two groundbreaking separate investigations of Medicaid’s performance in Iowa. 

Non-Partisanship

Rob does public service differently than politics, keeping an independent and a republican in senior leadership, and promoting, not firing, employees who made campaign contributions to his political opponent.

He defends the other party from unfair or untruthful attacks, while also criticizing his own party even when he doesn’t have to. No one in Iowa does this more than Rob.

Rob Sand In The News

> Rob Sand talks auditor job in Rock Rapids (NWestIowa.com)

> State auditor talks government finance efficiency program results in Dubuque (Telegraph Herald)

> Former city clerk gets prison time – State auditor discovered fraud (Ottumwa Courier)

> Audit finds more than $12K in improper disbursements by Iowa Safe Schools (KEYC News Now)

> Democrat Rob Sand to seek reelection as Iowa state auditor, won’t run for governor in 2022 (Des Moines Register)

> Lottery scam detailed in Iowa auditor’s new book (Axios Des Moines)

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What Are Dark Blue Democrats?

Dark Blue Democrats are moderate voters, public officials, and politicians who are registered Democrats that believe in the Constitution, Civil Rights, Social Equality, and a fair and equal balance of powers between the three branches of government and individual State autonomy.

Both the Democratic and Republican Parties have changed so much over the past several years with too much extremism and unwillingness to compromise by people on both sides.  We have more in common than we do differences and it’s time to stop the extremism and do whatever it takes to work together to protect what we have left in America and make it better.

Dark Blue Democrats reject radical or extreme views that divide our nation.  They work to occupy a central position on the left-right political spectrum.