UPDATE: Here's the Radio Iowa story and audio from the event.
U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, the former Iowa governor, is due to appear soon here at the show ring where State Fair champions are sold. Bleachers are arranged around the small show ring, and air conditioning is keeping us comfortable. At about 9:40 Vilsack arrived and was greeted by applause from the crowd. Vilsack, wearing a long-sleeved shirt, jeans and what we in the press section believe to be cowboy boots, is standing as Congressman Leonard Boswell (D-Des Moines) delivers an introduction.
Iowa Lieutenant Governor Patty Judge who farmed with her husband in Albia and served for eight years as Iowa's Secretary of Agriculture gets to make a few introductory remarks. "True Iowans just can't stay away from the Fair," Judge joked, before adding she hopes to "make sure before (Vilsack) leaves he has a corn dog and pork chop on a stick. I've seen him do it before, so I know he can do it."
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