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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.
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, cruised to re-election Tuesday, holding onto a decisive margin throughout the night.
King had 60 percent of the vote with 402 of 417 precincts reporting, a wide margin that will send him back to Washington for a fourth term and keep him very much politically alive for a potential run for governor in 2010.
King pulled in huge margins in reliably conserative counties in far northwest Iowa that buoyed him to the win over Democratic challenger Rob Hubler, a Navy veteran and retired Presbyterian minister from Council Bluffs.
While President-elect Barack Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois, captured the Hawkeye State, his coattails stopped short of western Iowa. Republican presidential candidate. Obama, for example, won Carroll County, a bellwether in the middle of the distict, that went for King as well.
“We just didn’t have the right amount of money to get the name ID out there,” Hubler told Iowa Independet just after midnight.
Hubler said the sprawling rural district has no major media market, a factor he thinks kept national Democratic dollars out of the race.
“That just prejudices all the money against rural areas,” Hubler said.
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