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Citizens United Is Making GOP Learn To Love Government Regulations
Bill Scher
Citizens United Is Making GOP Learn To Love Government Regulations
On Saturday, most of the GOP presidential hopefuls participated in the Iowa Agriculture Summit. But this wasn’t some quaint bucolic gathering where salt-of-the-earth farmers get to quiz the next leader of the free world. The Iowa Agriculture Summit was literally one huge Republican donor and Super PAC backer, who made his millions in hogs and ethanol, demanding the Republican candidates come to him and submit to his questions on a stage in front of the cameras. And that ethanol magnate, Bruce Rastetter, wants his candidates to support the existing federal renewable fuel standard, which mandates that gasoline refiners mix in a certain amount of biofuels, like ethanol.
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