Wednesday was a difficult day for The American Independent News Network, which is the larger entity that operates The Iowa Independent. Our chief executive and founder announced two of our sister sites would close and their content would be moved to The American Independent.
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.
When I took at look at Iowa Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley’s new Web site yesterday, I noticed the same thing Craig Robinson did: the “Contribute” page says that it is paid for by a different committee from the rest of the site.
The second committee, “Paul McKinley for Iowa,” caught my interest because of the supposed rumors that McKinley is pondering a run for governor. I have never put much stock in those rumors, assuming that they were meant more to gin up contributions for Senate Republicans than anything else, but I called the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board yesterday to find out whether the new committee exists.
It doesn’t. The IECDB told me that the committee would be forced to file a “statement of organization” within 10 days of raising or spending $750, and they confirmed that no statement of organization has been filed for “Paul McKinley for Iowa.”
So it’s a mistake, and it’s a somewhat embarassing one: on the page that solicits contributions, the only campaign committee listed is nonexistent. Where is a donor supposed to believe his or her money is going?
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