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Former Iowa state budget director. I know public finance stuff. ♥ equity, social justice, economics, science - and chess.

Delta Airlines most weeks
Joined April 2011
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Randy Bauer retweeted
Couple one, two people here tonight for this Rob Sand campaign event at the Val Air Ballroom in West Des Moines.
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Tariffs are taxes. Full stop. When the US puts a tariff on Canadian goods, the first person paying is the American importer, not the Canadian exporter.
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As Trump returns to tariffs, it's worth checking out what we've gotten from the trade war so far.
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Randy Bauer retweeted
Week 1 of the general and @RobSandIA has launched his 100 Town Hall Tour, spoke at ABI, hit the #WorldPorkExpo, and joined Iowa Press. Meanwhile, his opponent has kept busy fighting in the comments section and downplaying the fact that he still lives in Kansas.
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Randy Bauer retweeted
After a decade of one-party rule, Iowa is #48 in personal income growth and #1 in cancer growth. It’s time for change, and it’s time to elect Rob Sand, a governor for ALL Iowans.
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Randy Bauer retweeted
Sand: We shouldn't be giving vouchers to the richest Iowans - that has been part of our upside down budget.
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Randy Bauer retweeted
This shouldn't be news to anyone. If I win, we will have a divided government. But that means we have to work together to get things done, and I think that's a good thing.
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Randy Bauer retweeted
Lahn is as much an Iowa farmer as I am a Brazilian Soccer star. We can both dream, but it’s never happening.
Does this look like the resume of a ""farmer" / "businessman"? Who does political operative Zach Lahn think he's going to fool?
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Randy Bauer retweeted
Something remarkable is happening in Iowa with @turek4iowa's campaign. Congratulations on earning the nomination, Josh. Looking forward to hitting the trail with you soon.
My name is Josh Turek. I am a 2-time gold medalist, 4-time Paralympian in wheelchair basketball, one of the first permanently disabled members of the Iowa House, and I am honored to be Iowa's Democratic nominee for United States Senate. If you are ready to push for change, join me: turek4iowa.com
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Randy Bauer retweeted
Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core. The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old. It had fewer than 50 employees. And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it. Here is the part the administration tried to bury. Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast. One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done. Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion. A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son. This is public money. Your money. Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for. And there is more coming. A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review. This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer. propublica.org/article/donal…
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Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies. I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics. It makes Nixon look like a boy scout. cnbc.com/2026/05/18/trump-di…
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Massie lost because he wanted the Epstein List released and pedophiles held accountable. Trump didn't want any of that, so he had to go.
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Alligator Alcatraz is closing after one year and wasting $1B to house 1400 immigrants. That's an eye-popping $714,285 per occupant. Everything this administration does is filled with fraud and waste. wlrn.org/2026-05-14/desantis…
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Rob Sand, a Democrat running for governor in Iowa, starts his town halls by having Republicans, Democrats and independents sing America the Beautiful together before anyone argues about politics. It's hard to believe this is real when you first watch it. Rob Sand is doing something very different in Iowa right now. It's working driscollglobe.com/p/what-rob… (video credit: @LauraRBelin)
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Randy Bauer retweeted
Great lede: “Iowa First” Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn maintains a home in Kansas and flies to the state frequently in a plane he owns as part of an LLC.
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Donald Trump complains about China imports but his ties are made in China. Hypocrite much?
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Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
Trump campaigned on bringing down the cost of living "starting on day one," and then: started a trade war; deported much of the farm workforce, bombed Iran, allowed healthcare subsidies to expire, cut food assistance, ran an interest-rate boosting deficit, and attacked fed independence.
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So you're telling me that cutting tariffs leads to lower prices? Fascinating.
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Here they are: our two top Iran negotiators. No diplomatic experience. In way over their head. Both with massive financial conflicts of interest, their fortunes tied to the Middle East dictators that make them rich. What a distaster.
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This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America. A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts. In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention. Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it. This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it. nytimes.com/2026/04/19/us/po…
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