Story County

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... it's not a game that way, but when you think about it, it is a, a ecosystem that, uh, as it grows, uh, there's new opportunities and there's new challenges, and I enjoy that aspect of leadership, and I enjoy the ecosystem that we're gonna probably hopefully talk about with Story County specifically and what we're trying to do with peeking beyond.

Absolutely.

So headed there, but as we get there, let's set the table for how you found the Ames School system when you got here.

The businesses up here was all part of the kind of...

They weren't direct questions, but I could pick up that they were like, "We have resources here that's going untapped, but we don't know how to connect it all together." Um, I felt that was the challenge and the drive of what I was being hired to do up in, uh, Ames, was to really provide some consistency as...

and reach out, um, and build relationships with every department I can think of when it comes down to Story County.

Uh, you were in...

So honest to goodness, my answer to your question is everywhere.

If you go to a county meeting, you go to Story County or wherever, and you talk to some activists, which names come up unprompted when they look at future leaders for the party or people who might run for president?

I hear a lot of, I, I, and I, I'm gonna change that question just a little bit about who do I hear about, because in Iowa you don't necessarily have to say run for president.

[laughs] It's kind of implied when you're bragging about-

So honest to goodness, my answer to your question is everywhere.

If you go to a county meeting, you go to Story County or wherever, and you talk to some activists, Which names come up unprompted when they look at future leaders for the party or people who might run for president? I hear a lot

of, and I'm going to change that question just a little bit about who do I hear about? Because in Iowa, you don't necessarily have to say run for president.

It's kind of implied when you're bragging about national leaders.

Alongside her clothes was also her purse and a suitcase containing a Polaroid camera, her sociology textbook, and a green dress Her purse still had money in it, so robbery clearly wasn't the motive here.

According to Molly Blanco for iowastatedaily.com, the suitcase still remains at the Story County Sheriff's Office to this very day.

Although a connection was made pretty quickly between this unidentified girl and the missing persons report Sheila's parents had made, an official identification wasn't made until her father was able to travel to the Stevens Funeral Home in Ames to confirm it was her.

And of course, it was.

The person who picked up Sheila that day did so with the intent of killing her.

They didn't just have a nylon rope at hand, they also knew how to use a mechanism to tighten the rope and ensure her death.

Rumor has it the Story County Sheriff's Office have since misplaced this nylon rope.

Now, in terms of how long Sheila had been dead, the Des Moines Register wrote, "The death took place sometime within 24 hours after she was last seen here about 8:30 PM Friday." And although that seems like a very confusing way to word that sentence [laughs], I think it means that she was murdered within 24 hours of when she was last seen, and not in the 24 hours before she was found, I think.

All the Democrats are left with in Iowa after those three Trump campaigns are sort of predictable places demographically.

This is Story County, big college county, Iowa State.

This is where northern Iowa is.

Uh, this is where the University of Iowa is.

And I really work hard to do the opposite.

You know, I had a woman who was at my town hall in Story County complain about the fact that, you know, she liked some changes that were made around labor laws in Iowa, but then she found out that she's got to follow the federal law, which still has this other standard.

And like, how are we going to fix that? And I said to her, ma'am, you might get a candidate out here that's going to tell you, you know, stick your finger in the eye of the federal government.

Who's going to pay for that when you break federal law, that candidate or you, right? And I said, there's no answer here other than the federal law is the law of the land, and any politician that tells you there's some way around that is trying to get your vote even if it gets you in trouble.