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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.
Former Iowa Congressman Jim Ross Lightfoot tells Iowa Independent that Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama both won on the lilability factor.
A word we heard bantered about was ‘likability,’” Lightfoot said. “Huckabee and Obama both win on that factor. They are the kind of people that can be liked by people on both sides.”
Lighfoot, who represented western Iowa in Congress, said organization wins caucuses in Iowa and “once again we see money being trumped in the Huckabee vs Romney contest.”
“The positive perception of Huckabee by the evangelicals, small business and others of a conservative nature turned out to support their choice,” Lightfoot said. “Polls do not win, people showing up to vote do. On the Democrat side Obama held off Clinton and Edwards. The polls would indicate that Obama had it sewed up and Clinton would be a distant third. In the end it was very close. Personally, I expected Clinton to make a surge and she did to a point. However, the results indicate that perhaps there is new movement alive in the Democrat party.”
Should this carry on to the end it will give both parties a person to vote for rather than against. That would be a refreshing change.
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