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Iowa Governor-Elect Rob Sand Announces Tri-Partisan Leadership Team
Sand said the team brings government and advocacy experience as he prepares to begin his first-day push to end Medicaid privatization.
- On Monday, Governor-elect Rob Sand announced a "tripartisan" leadership team including Chief of Staff Abe Rakov, Republican co-chair Mike Mahaffey, and independent co-chair State Representative Brian Lohse.
- Sand, the first Democrat to lead Iowa in 16 years, formed the group to fulfill campaign pledges of bipartisanship while navigating Republican majorities in both chambers of the Iowa Legislature.
- Lohse said he and Sand "don't agree on everything," but share the belief that "Iowans should be put above politics." Elisabeth Buck and Morgan Miller join as transition co-directors announced last week.
- Sand intends to begin reversing Iowa's privatized Medicaid system on his first day in office, though he warned, "This is not a thing that we can do overnight."
- With the legislative session beginning January 11, Sand plans to meet face-to-face with current agency leaders soon to determine if they will remain in their positions.
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