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.
Almost five months ago, U.S. Rep. Steve King said in a Spencer, Iowa radio interview that if Sen. Barack Obama wins the presidential election, “the radical Islamists, the al-Qa’ida and the radical Islamists and their supporters will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11th.”
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann named King the “Worst Person in the World.” The Iowa Civil Rights Commission considered action. Gov. Chet Culver told the Iowa Independent that King should retract the statement.
So logically, Congressman King posted what he said on his congressional web site, which is paid for by taxpayers. The entire statement is still there.
Generally, such overtly partisan rhetoric is reserved for campaign web sites rather than congressional web sites, because taxpayer money is not supposed to pay for campaign activities like this. The Iowa Independent first brought you this story in March.
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