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NCBA Take On Election Change

Mike

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From an agriculture perspective, NCBA Director of Legislative Affairs Colin Woodall said Minnesota Congressman Collin Peterson likely will become chairman of the U.S. House Ag Committee. Woodall said Peterson has been an ally to NCBA on issues in the past, helping to defeat attacks by animal activist groups. Congressman Peterson has said, however, that upon taking over the chairmanship, he will make implementing mandatory country-of-origin labeling a priority. Woodall also expects upcoming Farm Bill discussions in Peterson’s committee to take a heavier slant toward ideas such as bans on packer ownership and forward contracting.
 
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Anonymous

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Mike said:
From an agriculture perspective, NCBA Director of Legislative Affairs Colin Woodall said Minnesota Congressman Collin Peterson likely will become chairman of the U.S. House Ag Committee. Woodall said Peterson has been an ally to NCBA on issues in the past, helping to defeat attacks by animal activist groups. Congressman Peterson has said, however, that upon taking over the chairmanship, he will make implementing mandatory country-of-origin labeling a priority. Woodall also expects upcoming Farm Bill discussions in Peterson’s committee to take a heavier slant toward ideas such as bans on packer ownership and forward contracting.
Troy Marshall
President Bush has only vetoed one bill in the last six years. That's not surprising as he's been dealing with a Republican controlled Congress. We can expect the cap on the veto pen to come off early and often as both sides posture for 2008.

According to Troy Marshall, in his true NCBA "don't know whats happening in the world" form is suggesting that President Bush will be able to protect the NCBA/AMI/Multinational Packers interest with his use of the veto pen...

I hope Bush/Republicans have been kicked in the arse hard enough to wake him/them and he/they don't do that-- or they will be opening the door for a Hillary/Dean/Kerry type to walk right in in 08...

It was the administrations absolute arrogance on things like GIPSA, M-COOL, BSE Testing and Policy that put their butts on the arse kicking stage in the first place.....
 

mrj

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OT, making your typical asinine statement, you ignore the FACT of more than 60 years of predominantly liberal 'education' of all ages of people in and out of school, politics, and government on people which has left the majority of our citizens susceptible to the lies of liberal politicians.

The number of people calling in on C-SPAN stating as fact outright lies by anti-Bush politicians was both amazing and appaling. That had to have an effect on this election as there is little doubt there was ever more propaganda to that effect in any previous election, mostly from the 527 group that are apparently allowed to say anything no matter how far out or how false in order to 'win'.

MRJ
 
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MRJ said:
OT, making your typical asinine statement, you ignore the FACT of more than 60 years of predominantly liberal 'education' of all ages of people in and out of school, politics, and government on people which has left the majority of our citizens susceptible to the lies of liberal politicians.

The number of people calling in on C-SPAN stating as fact outright lies by anti-Bush politicians was both amazing and appaling. That had to have an effect on this election as there is little doubt there was ever more propaganda to that effect in any previous election, mostly from the 527 group that are apparently allowed to say anything no matter how far out or how false in order to 'win'.

MRJ

Well Maxine- You can set in your little glassed in world and fantasize it any which way you want- but like I said some time ago-- the actions/inaction of the current administration was going to catch up with them- and instead of groups like yours using a little give and take compromise- they even stonewalled and went backwards on things like M-COOL, GIPSA investigations, Creekstone BSE policy, etc.- which showed nothing but arrogance toward the producer and small business... Folks get sick of backroom tricks just to profit the Bigs of the world...Now the overreaction could be much worse than what a little compromise would have given up......

I think this election just showed- and hopefully gets thru to both parties, but for sure now the Republican Party- that there are a whole lot less voting Corporate Executives out there than there are voting plain old working and small business folks....And that you can't always just buy an election by spending lots of corporate/PAC money... I think it is well shown in the Montana Burns/Tester race where Burns raised like $8.7 million with over 1/3 of that coming from PACs and Tester raised $4.3 million with only 10% coming from PACs and 87% of it coming from individuals...(these are based on the last reported figures- by opensecrets.org)
 
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