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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.
Chris Christie
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will visit Iowa in the coming weeks to campaign for GOP gubernatorial hopeful Terry Branstad, D.C. news site Politico reports. But despite the presidential chatter that a trip like this to the Hawkeye State always stirs, Christie insists he has absolutely no interest in seeking his party’s presidential nomination in 2012.
Christie’s political stock began to rise when he knocked off New Jersey’s incumbent Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine in November 2009, and as Politico reports, he is now one of the Republican Party’s “most-sought after stars.”
From Politico:
Yet the anti-abortion, Bruce Springsteen-loving father of four who has spoken openly of his need to make money after his gubernatorial term is hard to pigeonhole politically.
He tends to view things through the lens of a prosecutor, telling interviewers, for instance, that he wanted to take time to review the health care reform package passed in Washington before commenting on it so he fully saw the implications for his state.
And he has not joined in some of the conservative discussions about immigration policy, most recently saying he didn’t want to join in the political ping-pong over the mosque near ground zero in nearby Lower Manhattan. He also pointedly urged people not to paint all of Islam with the brush of terrorism, a contrast to the tone employed by 2012 presidential prospects including Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich.
No, no. Come on. Look at me. Me for President? Come on, seriously. No way. No way.I mean, I know I’ve heard all these weasel words that other people use ‘Well, I have no plans right now’, ‘I don’t think that would be something I would like to do’.
I’m looking at you: No, ain’t happening. Not doing it.
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