RON WIECK STATE SENATOR Twenty-seventh District Statehouse: (515) 281-3371 – HOME ADDRESS 4362 Old Lakeport Road Sioux City, Iowa 51106 H: (712) 276-4008 ron.wieck@legis.state.ia.us

The Senate State of Iowa Eighty-first General Assembly STATEHOUSE Des Moines, Iowa 50319

COMMITTEES Business and Labor Relations, CoChair Commerce Government Oversight State Government Ways & Means

For Immediate Release Contact: Senator Wieck

Thursday, January 19, 2006 (515) 281-3371

Senator Wieck Meets with Director of Rural Economic Development

Des Moines – Senator Ron Wieck (R-Sioux City) invited Rob Marqusee, the Director of Rural Economic Development from Woodbury County to testify at the Government Oversight committee Thursday.

Mr. Marqusee visited the Capitol Thursday to testify that the Iowa Board of Regents did not properly follow code when they looked at the values fund and graduate universities in western Iowa. Mr. Marquesee testified against the Board of Regents on Thursday.

Ron Marqusee can be reached at (712) 279-6609.

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