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.
As reported by our sister site, the Minnesota Independent, U.S. Rep. Steve King’s press secretary, Brandon Lerch, has left the congressman’s office to run U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s reelection campaign in Minnesota. As the Minnesota Independent notes, “He’ll have his hands full managing a campaign like Bachmann’s, where controversial statements and actions surface from time to time. Fortunately, Lerch has some experience defusing jaw-dropper soundbites.”
As he joins Bachmann’s team, he’s departing as press secretary to Iowa’s Rep. Steve King, who’s no stranger to controversial comments. [...]
Lerch also has experience marketing to the faith-based. Before speaking for King, he worked at We Care America, a government-funded faith-based operation with ties to the Rev. Pat Robertson. Ohio Office of Inspector General investigated We Care America shortly after Lerch’s departure as governmental affairs director.
The Inspector General found that We Care America used federal funds for an evaluation that “reads more like an infomercial for [the Governor's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives] and [We Care America], rather than the independent academic case study it purports to be.” We Care America also owed the state of Ohio $125,000 when it folded in 2007.
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