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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.
Former Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate has filed paperwork with the state’s election board officially forming a committee aimed at re-capturing his old job.
Pate, a Republican from Cedar Rapids who gave up his office to run for governor in 1998, officially notified the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board of his intentions Monday.
Last week he told conservative blogger Craig Robinson that he was reaching out to past supporters but had not yet decided whether he should run. Council Bluffs City Councilman Matt Schultz and former State Representative George Eichhorn have already announced their intentions to join the GOP primary hoping to unseat first-term incumbent Democrat Michael Mauro.
Pate told The Cedar Rapids Gazette last month that the idea of running alongside former Gov. Terry Branstad, Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey and Auditor David Vaudt could also play a part in his interest in entering the race.
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