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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.
“I debated on whether I should even bring Sarah up tonight, because you know, I think the bloom is off the rose,” said Lt. Gov. Patty Judge, but in the end she clearly decided to talk about her.
“I have spent a lot of time thinking about, of all the women in the United States of America, why did John McCain pick Sarah Palin?” Judge said.
“If she is qualified to be the Vice President of the United States — a heartbeat away from the presidency — why didn’t Barack Obama call me?”
“We both wear glasses. We’ve both got kids and we like them a lot. My resume is substantially longer than hers, but you shouldn’t hold that against me. We both have special skills that have been widely publicized: hers being field-dressing a moose, mine being castrating a calf.”
“I have trouble understanding why this woman annoys me so darn much.”
“And I can probably get past the ‘aw shucks’ business and the ‘you’re darn right’ stuff. The winking is super-annoying. But in a final analysis, I’ll tell you why she annoys me so much.”
“Women have worked so hard to take our place at the political table, and we have done that by being smart by working hard, by being tough, and by being committed… And when John McCain picked this woman to be his running-mate, it was a reckless, arrogant act,” Judge concluded.
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