Episode 95: Pete Buttigieg Joins the Show! Rob Sand Announces His Run for Governor. Top 5 Petes, with Pete!

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Thanks for clicking play on the latest edition of Iowa Revolution.

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My name is Spencer.

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He is Dr. Bob.

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Dr. Bob, good to see you.

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Good to see you, Spencer.

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First of all, the big news, we do have Pete Buttigieg coming later on in the show.

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He's in Cedar Rapids as we speak,

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or at least as we're recording,

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getting ready to speak to the Vote Vets rally tonight in downtown Cedar Rapids.

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So we got about 10 minutes to talk to Pete.

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Even had a chance to give him my top five Pete's.

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So you'll want to make sure to stick around for that later on in the show.

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But first off,

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Dr.

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Bob,

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the biggest news in the state of Iowa is Rob Sand has announced that he will run

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for governor,

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of course,

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as a Democrat.

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He does have $8 million in his coffers right now.

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$7 million of that is from his family and extended family.

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And it is expected that we're going to be seeing some more Republicans put their

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name in the hat.

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Brenna Byrd, Pat Grassley, now Randy Feenstra has...

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explored now possibly getting into the governor's race so those are just a few

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names also mike busolo republican from ankeny he's also kind of entertained running

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for governor so first of all just your thoughts on rob sand now officially in the

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race

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Well, it's something we've suspected would happen for some time, for years.

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In fact, you and I have talked about it.

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A lot of people saw him as the likely candidate since he's the only elected official.

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I think he's a good man.

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I think he'll do a great job.

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Having the money is important.

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These races aren't going to be easy to win.

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I just think that he's been... I think...

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very balanced in his auditor position.

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I really think that Kim Reynolds stripping that office of its power was,

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I don't know,

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something anti-democratic.

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I think that we needed that office to be a watchdog.

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Now, why wouldn't Kim Reynolds want a watchdog?

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Right.

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You know, so you can do things that you don't want anybody to know.

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And I just think that's a question that answers itself.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So I think Rob's done a good job.

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He may he may get a challenge or I think somebody is telegraphed that they may run.

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And I don't think that's a bad thing.

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I think that it will actually help him.

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I just worry about.

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primaries now in the sense that they take up so much money and that,

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you know,

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we just,

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I mean,

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there are diverging views on that.

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And I think there's probably merit to both of them.

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There's one side that says having a tough primary helps in terms of name recognition,

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then you're going to have to spend money to get ads earlier on.

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So you might get that early bump.

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So there is that side of the coin.

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But then,

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as you said,

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that also makes you burn through some money that you're not going to have then when

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you get to the governors,

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you know,

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when you get to the general race.

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