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.
In my earlier post I overlooked one prominent example of an outside interest group already involved in the Iowa House District 90 special election.
On Republican candidate Stephen Burgmeier’s Web page for volunteers, the two names listed as contacts are Katie Koberg and Mary Earnhardt, who were announced last November as members of Iowans for Tax Relief’s “new leadership team.”
Koberg is listed as a vice president of the conservative group, and Earnhardt is listed as its policy director.
Notably, Kay Henderson reports that ITR’s political action committee (PAC) has not had a very good fundraising year so far. ITR President Ed Failor, Jr., told Henderson that the big money he claimed his group raised earlier in the year was mostly going into the group’s 501(c)(4) account, not its PAC account (a claim that cannot be independently verified). That means ITR may not be able to offer its support in cash, but it can make up for that with manpower.
Any outside supporters Democrat Curt Hanson might have are doing a better job of covering their tracks so far. All we know for sure is that the press release announcing Hanson’s candidacy was sent out by Kevin Boyd, who oversees campaigns for the House Democrats’ Truman Fund, and that wasn’t much of a surprise.
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