The New York Times profiles Decorah native Rob Sand

Decorah native Rob Sand again is attracting national attention.

The New York Times has profiled Sand because of the role he has been playing in recent months to counsel Democratic Presidential candidates in Iowa. 

In addition to describing his meetings with Pete Buttigieg, Cory Booker and other Presidential candidates, the article described Sand's home town:

"Mr. Sand is 37 but looks like he is 19. He is from Decorah, Iowa, part of the 'Driftless Area' in rural northeast Iowa, so called because glaciers left it untouched during the last ice age. The area also happens to be the locus of the Midwestern shift of voters from Obama to Trump. His father was a doctor. His mother was a physical therapist for disabled children.

When he was a child, he filled his time riding mountain bikes and tubing down the Upper Iowa River. His first job was catching chickens. ("Technically, they're capons — castrated male chickens," he clarified. "My mom would make me take all of my clothes off before I came into the house because you'd just be literally covered in chicken shit. That's the only thing they can do, once you've grabbed them. They're like, 'Oh no! Let's see if this helps!")

Read the complete article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/us/politics/iowa-democrats-2020.html