You’d have to point out where it was a hotly contested issue in presidential debates, for example.
Iowa Seeks to Ramp Up Politics of Ethanol
Published in DTN
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is lining up farm groups to ensure politicians running for president in the Hawkeye State are willing to defend ethanol and other renewable fuels.
Branstad announced the effort Thursday during a press conference at the Iowa State Capitol. Iowa political strategists and ethanol groups have created “America’s Renewable Future” as a group to lead a campaign targeting presidential candidates coming into the state. As a Bloomberg article stated, “We are designing it to look like a presidential campaign, but the RFS is our candidate,” said Eric Branstad, the governor’s son and a group organizer. “We’re going to be talking to people” and making the presidential candidates respond, he said on a conference call.
Gov. Branstad has pushed back on the EPA effort to roll back parts of the Renewable Fuels Standard. The governor and ethanol groups plan to use Iowa’s status as the first-in-the-nation caucus to re-establish political support for ethanol
Just one example of many.