Terry Branstad

En aquel entonces país, varios días en Iowa aprendiendo sobre agricultura, visitando granjas y alojándose con una familia local.

Los medios estatales chinos destacaron su estancia en aquel hogar y su amistad con Terry Branstad, por entonces gobernador de Iowa y posteriormente embajador de Washington en China durante la presidencia de Donald Trump, para destacar los vínculos personales de Xi con Estados Unidos.

Chinese state media highlighted his stay in that home and his friendship with Terry Branstad, then governor of Iowa and later Washington's ambassador to China during the presidency of Donald Trump, to highlight Xi's personal ties with the United States.

Xi's personal ties with the United States.

Los medios estatales chinos destacaron su estancia en aquel hogar y su amistad con Terry Branstad, por entonces gobernador de Iowa y posteriormente embajador de Washington en China durante la presidencia de Donald Trump, para destacar los vínculos personales de Xi con Estados Unidos.

Hoy, la relación entre Estados Unidos y China poco tiene que ver con la de entonces.

Today, the relationship between the United States and China has little to do with that of then.

The budget for the governor's office in the 2018 state budget year, as approved by the Iowa legislature, was $2,074,000, 842,000, with 22 full-time equivalent employees.

The budget was approved in 2017, the year Reynolds ascended from lieutenant governor after former Governor Terry Branstad became U.S. ambassador to China.

The governor's office for the 2027 state budget year, approved earlier this year by the legislature, was 2.8%.

$864,932 for 25 full-time equivalent employees.

The budget for the governor's office in the 2018 state budget year as approved by the Iowa legislature was $2,074,842 with 22 full-time equivalent employees.

That budget was approved in 2017, the year Reynolds ascended from lieutenant governor after former Governor Terry Branstad became U.S. ambassador to China.

The governor's office for the 2027 state budget year, approved earlier this year by the legislature, was changed.

$2,864,932 for 25 full-time equivalent employees.

I think that's right.

2006? Yeah, he won in 2006 and then lost to Branstad in 2010.

Yeah.

And then the last senator would have to be Harkin, right? Yeah.

The program is jointly funded by the state and federal governments and is operated by the state under federal regulations.

In 2015, then-Governor Terry Branstad, a Republican, issued an executive order that contracted the management of Iowa's Medicaid program to private companies that are known as Managed Care Organizations, or MCOs.

Branstad's successor, current Governor Kim Reynolds, maintained the private management system.

Currently, three MCOs operate Iowa's Medicaid program, Iowa Total Care, Molina Health Care, and WellPoint.

they decide to be more, a little more aggressive about it.

I wonder if their answer to that would be, and I heard this again, I've heard others say it in the past, I t- believe Terry Branstad was famous for saying it, and Ashley Hinson just said it today when we, we talked to her, uh, you run like you're 10 points down all the time no matter what.

And maybe that, maybe that's what the Sand campaign would say to that.

Yeah.

However, comma, as my daughter likes to say, the Farm Bureau did not endorse a candidate in Iowa's open seat campaign for governor.

So while the group had previously endorsed Republicans Kim Reynolds and Terry Branstad in their campaigns, The Farm Bureau has not yet endorsed Zach Lane, this year's Republican candidate for governor.

Lane obviously is facing Democratic State Auditor Rob Sand.

The easiest line to draw here, and Farm Bureau has not, by the way, commented on why they chose to skip that one, but the easiest line to draw here is to Lane's talk on the campaign trail about addressing Iowa's high cancer rates and low water quality, and his discussion about possible links between Iowans' health and the use of agricultural chemicals.

This is an influence organization that you've probably never heard of.

It's called the US-China Green Institute, and it was founded by, um, Terry Branstad, a former ambassador to China; David Adelman, we can put their board pictures up there; and Jonathan Crane.

These are all people, especially Branstad, he's like an old friend of Xi Jinping, that's what Xi calls him.

He is knee-deep in PRC influence stuff.