Voter campaign heats up as Iowa races near election
Linn County officials attend a workshop for election day workers in Cedar Rapids while campaigns in Des Moines target door to door outreach and radio ads. Branstad Jenkins and Grassley Roedrick races drive a statewide turnout push with absentee voting urged in Polk Linn Scott counties. Democrats plan heavy door knocking as they identify nearly 500,000 voters to reach by election day. Odell predicts 763000 turnout, while Democrats aim for one million votes.
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Linda Langenberg
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Joe O’hern
Jenkins
Terry Branstad
O’hern
Iowa
Democratic Party
Liz Buck
Buck
Polk
Scott
Mary Jane Odell
Neely
Branstad-Jenkins
U.S. Senate
Charles Grassley
John Roedrick
Illinois hog plant sold to reopen Monmouth facility
Gov. James R. Thompson announced that the closed Wilson Foods Corp. hog butchering plant in Monmouth will be sold to a new corporation that plans to reopen it and eventually hire about 700 workers. The Illinois Pork Corp. must secure financing before the purchase can proceed, said DCCA spokeswoman Jill Fowler.
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Springfield, Ill
Wilson Foods Corp
Monmouth
Illinois Pork Corp
Jill Fowler
Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs
DCCA
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