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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.
Democratic incumbent Gov. Chet Culver has launched a statewide TV ad attacking Republican Terry Branstad for alleged dishonest budgeting practices while he was governor during the 80s and 90s.
The allegation, first lobbed by former auditor Richard Johnson, centers around the idea that Branstad “kept two sets of books,” a claim Branstad denies.
During a taping of Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press,” Branstad was questioned about the assertions made by Johnson, who served as auditor during Branstad’s time in office and supported Bob Vander Plaats in the GOP gubernatorial primary.
“There never were two sets of books,” Branstad said. “But the books were never balanced — general accepting accounting principles — they never had been until we did the spending reforms in 1992. I was the governor who corrected the financial problems that existed.”
Here is Culver’s ad:
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