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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
Rudy Giuliani spoke before a mostly collegiate crowd of about 500 at the Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa City on Wednesday.
One of those students, Jimmy Centers, introduced the man he says will be the next president.
Centers is the chairman of Students for Giuliani on the University of Iowa campus. He said that Rudy Giuliani is the only Republican candidate with an Iowa campaign office east of Des Moines.
Giuliani spoke at length about tort reform, but also managed to work in a few jabs at Democratic candidates. At one point he proposed that medical decisions should be made, “with a doctor, not a Hillary bureaucrat.” When he dropped the “H”-word, it brought some of the biggest cheers of the event.
Video of Giuliani’s campus rally below the fold.
In this video, Jimmy Centers talks about the thrill of introducing his chosen candidate and some of the reasons he believes in Giuliani’s presidential candidacy. Also in this video, Rudy Giuliani talks about what he believes are some of the concerns of young people.
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