Gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand critical of school voucher program at Glenwood town hall

Iowa gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand believes the state’s school voucher program lacks oversight and accountability.

In fact, the Democrat, who currently serves as state auditor, described the program as being “wide open for waste, fraud, abuse, and having no rules.”

Speaking at a town hall Monday in Glenwood, Iowa, the Sand expressed frustration on this and other issues crafted by Republican lawmakers in Des Moines.

“They have lost their way,” Sand told a crowd of about 60 people who attended the meeting at the Bloom Senior Center on a rainy afternoon.

On the school voucher program, Sand recalled expressing the lack of oversight and accountability with a lobbyist for the program and being surprised by the response.

“His answer to me — and I was expecting it would be,`You’re right an