Rob Sand: “Certainly, you’d want to make sure that we are not paying out up front.”

I think the bottom line is both parties tend to see too much concentration of power in those safe states, and that ends up being bad for the people that they’re supposed to be serving.

I pledge to bring divided government once again to Des Moines.

We have to see where we’re going with the state’s budget.

I think what’s most important here is making sure that this deal is rock solid and actually going to work for Iowans.