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.
Lost in the shuffle of Wednesday’s dual announcements that Rudy Giuliani and John McCain are skipping the August straw poll in Ames: Tom Tancredo is also making some campaign changes. The Rocky Mountain News reports:
Rep. Tom Tancredo plans to change direction in his long-shot presidential campaign so he can pressure fellow Republicans into rejecting an immigration reform plan he considers ‘amnesty.’
Tancredo will follow through with the Iowa trip that starts today, but then plans to move his campaigning to Republican-held congressional districts around the country. The message: help block the immigration reform bill now pending in the U.S. Senate, or risk primary defeat. One name that came up in Tuesday’s debate: Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire.
Also lost in the shuffle was Tancredo’s statement late in the debate calling for an end to all legal immigration so existing populations can be assimilated “until we don’t have to press 1 for English.”
One more note from the GOP debate: Chris Dodd’s folks had so much fun with the Talk Clock after Sunday’s Democratic debate that they issued a GOP version. The winner: Wolf Blitzer.
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