Wednesday was a difficult day for The American Independent News Network, which is the larger entity that operates The Iowa Independent. Our chief executive and founder announced two of our sister sites would close and their content would be moved to The American Independent.
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 3rd District Congressional hopeful Pat Bertroche has taken lots of heat for publicly calling for microchips to be implanted into immigrants in the country illegally. Immigrant-rights activists in Iowa and around the nation were outraged, and Bertroche was even featured on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC program as the “Worst Person in the World.”
Bertroche’s explanation for the statement was that it was meant as social commentary and that he never meant to suggest he advocates illegal immigrants be microchipped like dogs. He told The Des Moines Register it was supposed to be a joke to poke fun as radical ideas that are ruining a reasonable discussion of immigration policy.
“I ended my statement earlier than I should have,” he said.
Now, video of the comment has emerged. A YouTube user named “IA03RawFootage” uploaded the 26 seconds of comments that have gotten so much attention. There is no information about who owns the account, but all other uploads are of the seven GOP candidates running in the 3rd District primary.
Here is the video:
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