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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.
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee drew a large crowd in Newton, Iowa on Tuesday morning. He was introduced by the campaign’s state co-chairman, Danny Carroll, and was joined by his wife, Janet Huckabee, and Huckabee’s Iowa Chairman, Bob Vander Plaats.
Huckabee took some questions from the audience following a short stump speech in the Des Moines Area Community College Conference Center in Newton.
Videos from Newton, Ia. available below the fold.Newton resident John Stilley asked the former governor about his values system. Here is the Iowa voter sharing some of his thoughts on Mike Huckabee:
It took Huckabee about five minutes to answer Stilley’s question but it confirmed Stilley’s suspicions: He’d found his candidate. Listen to Huckabee’s answer in the video below:
Huckabee answered the question by taking a long view of human life, covering birth issues, a definition of marriage, and a little about end-of-life rights.
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