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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.
Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign released a video this weekend targeting virtually all of the Republican presidential front-runners for flip-flopping.
During a speech hosted by the Family Research Council, 2012 candidate Michele Bachmann pledged that “Washington, D.C. will never look the same again after my administration.”
A report released this week shows that the National Organization for Marriage was one of the top political spenders in the Iowa 2010 election cycle. It’s a push for influence that hasn’t stopped.
Steve King and Michele Bachmann were among the signers of a letter to the U.S. Senate that urged the chamber to pass a National Defense Authorization Act amendment that would prohibit gay members of the armed forces from using military facilities for marriage ceremonies.
Rick Santorum appeared on controversial preacher Bradlee Dean’s radio show Saturday, stating his support for so-called “sodomy laws” and criticizing supporters of same-sex marriage rights.
Five of Michele Bachmann’s New Hampshire campaign team released a statement on Monday, confirming they have quit despite comments by the national team that the New Hampshire staff remained in place. The five members said the campaign was “rude, unprofessional, dishonest, and at times cruel” to staffers.
Team Iowa PAC, a political action committee connected to presidential candidate Rick Santorum has released a web video in the special election in Iowa’s Senate District 18. The ad warns that gay marriage will remain legal, Planned Parenthood will remain funded, and jobs will be killed if voters pick the Democrat in the race.
A new group called Andrew’s Round Table — named in memory of Cpl. Andrew Wilfahrt, a Minnesota gay soldier killed in February by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan — is hoping to educate Americans about the need for equal rights for gays and lesbians.
Roughly half of Iowans want to place a constitutional amendment that would prohibit gays and lesbians from entering into civil marriage on the 2012 ballot, a pollster reported late last week.
Michele Bachmann is adding to her campaign staff in the early states of Iowa and South Carolina.
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