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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.
Haley Barbour, who is openly mulling a run for president in 2012, sent a mailer out to Iowa Republicans last week that introduces the Mississippi governor to voters in the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, according to the Washington, D.C., news site Politico.
Barbour is chairman of the Republican Governors Association, a group charged with elected GOP governors across the country. The mailer focuses those efforts, but also highlights parts of Barbour’s resume that demonstrate he, “knows what it takes to succeed.”
From Politico:
The piece encourages recipients to sign up for updates on Barbour’s website, a means of building a list.
The governor is planning to raise money later this year in Iowa for GOP gubernatorial candidate Terry Branstad and, officially, the piece is only aimed at 2010.
“We can’t wait until 2012 to start taking our country back,” Barbour writes on the mailer. “We need to elect conservative governors and members of Congress in 2010.”
Barbour upset many Iowa conservatives last year when he told a crowd of GOP activists that the party must resist the quest for purity, saying “There are tens of millions of pro-choice Republicans that are just as good Republicans as I am, and we need to support them.”
Steve Scheffler, president of Iowa Christian Alliance and one of two Iowans on the Republican National Committee, said earlier this year that Barbour’s presidential aspirations were “toast” in Iowa because of the actions of the Republican Governors Association.
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