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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.
Sarah Palin’s latest FEC numbers are in, and — as with all things Palin-related — it’s big news. As Politico reported in a story Sunday night: “In short, for the first time since the 2008 campaign… Palin is supported by a political operation befitting someone considering a presidential run.”
But the liberal organization Media Matters maintains that the story is pure hype, citing a CNN dispatch that puts things in perspective:
Sarah Palin’s political action committee raised more than $865,000 over the last three months, according to a newly filed report with the Federal Election Commission – the former Alaska governor’s biggest quarterly take since SarahPAC was launched in early 2009.
But the PAC’s fundraising so far this year has been roughly on pace with its 2009 efforts. Palin raised more than $1.2 million since the beginning of this year, about $200,000 less than she raised in the second half of 2009.
Indeed, the Politico story itself admits that Palin is by no means unique in her fundraising efforts. Mitt Romney’s “Free and Strong America PAC” raised more than a million dollars in just April and May. Piling on, CNN’s Peter Hamby adds in a tweet:
Palin gets another round of breathless 2012 buzz for doing things she is supposed to do: campaign for candidates, raise money, send out mail
Time magazine’s Mark Halperin a complete list of SarahPAC campaign donation recipients, including $5,000 donations to U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley and gubernatorial hopeful Terry Branstad.
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