Posted on 07/03/2004 8:32:59 PM PDT by JohnD9207
Throughout his hourlong town hall-like meeting in Independence, Kerry spoke of his proposals to require that food labels include a product's country of origin and to expand programs that provide financial aid to farmers who practice conservation.
He also highlighted his plans to prohibit corporate meatpackers from owning livestock more than two weeks before slaughter and to increase production of renewable fuels from corn, soybeans and other agricultural sources.
Kerry defended his support of the 1990s Northeast Dairy Compact, a regional pricing program that propped up prices for Northeastern dairy farmers over objections of their Midwestern counterparts. Congress did not renew the Northeast Dairy Compact when it expired in September 2001.
However, Kerry co-sponsored a bill in 2001 that would have prevented the termination of the compact, as well as create similar price control compacts in other regions of the nation.
"I know that Republicans are going to try very hard to say, 'Oh, John Kerry voted for that dairy compact when he represented Massachusetts,'" Kerry said. "I plead guilty. I did vote for it, because I represented Massachusetts as a United States senator."
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Noting that he will be representing the entire country as president, Kerry said he wouldn't support such a regional system if elected.
Marc Racicot, Bush's re-election campaign chairman and former governor of Montana, disputed a comment Kerry made Friday in Minnesota that he represented "conservative values" that rural Americans feel.
"John Kerry's campaign trail amnesia is either a disconcerting departure from his record and votes or a willful effort to deceive the voters of America's heartland," Racicot said. "The American people need to think twice about whether they can trust a candidate who changes his 'values' with the political winds."
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finally someone, this time its Marc Racicot, has said what continually needs to be said....
Past tense? Sorry, Massachusetts, you now only have one Senator.
~I did vote for it, because I represented Massachusetts as a United States senator." "
Past tense? Sorry, Massachusetts, you now only have one Senator.~~
Well, considering how much of his time he has given to the people of Massachusetts, he might as well have quit, except that would be more honest. He barely even has a voting record anymore because he's never there for anything.
Given my other Senators usual state of intoxification,I'd say we have maybe 1/4 of our Constitutionally alotted number of Senators.
~"Given my other Senators usual state of intoxification,I'd say we have maybe 1/4 of our Constitutionally alotted number of Senators."~
Ah, but what he lacks in brain cells,he makes up for in bulk.
Ergo, by his own admission he's collecting a salary under false pretenses as he no longer represents Mass. and should therefore be prosecuted for FRAUD.
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