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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.
Two prominant Republicans who many believed to be quietly considering a run for governor in 2010 told The Des Moines Register Wednesday they will not seek their party’s nomination.
Former Gov. Terry Branstad and Vermeer Corp. CEO Mary Andringa both scored highly in a recent poll commissioned by the Iowa First Foundation, a group organized by former GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Gross. Respondents were given descriptions of different candidates and asked to rank how appealing each sounded, and Branstad and Vermeer’s descriptions ranked the highest. That led many Republicans to believe both were considering a run.
However, Branstad told the Register he didn’t want to “give anyone the impression that I’m thinking about it, because that would be not really correct,” and Vermeer said she is “not pursuing the Republican nomination for Iowa’s next governor.”
The paper also spoke with Jeff Lamberti, a former state senator who currently co-owns the arena football team the Iowa Barnstormers, along with current Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn. Lamberti said he is in the early stages of making a decision on whether to run. His most recent campaign was an unsuccsessful bid in 2006 to defeat Third District U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell.
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