You are a treasure, Phyllis!

Lyle


On Oct 26, 2010, at 7:43 a, Phyllis Mains wrote:

Pat Knueven, we know the tea party is funded by billionaire special  
interests like oil men Charles and David Koch of KS.  We know the tea  
party is composed by many factions, some religious groups that are  
opposed to equal rights for women and gays, and want to legislate  
their religious beliefs into law.  Perhaps the most egregious,  
dishonest factions represent big business agriculture.  In a recent  
hiking trip to UT my husband and I were asked by a cowboy to move our  
vehicle at a trail head so he could get his cattle out of public  
land.  We hiked a trail watching for slippery cow pies covered with  
flies and so much urine near streams this hiking trail smelled like a  
feedlot!  Not to mention it led to the Dark Canyon Wilderness area  
also full of cattle waste.  Driving through KS, CO and UT we passed  
through tens of thousands of acres of row crops, and not one farmhouse  
in sight.  These tea party folks want an end to big government but  
assuredly we will not see an end to the billions of dollars of big  
agriculture handouts to CAFOs in the Midwest or  grazing in the West  
(tax payers pay for fences that keep the cattle in and public out, for  
maintained federal  roads to transport cattle,to mention a few, while  
ranchers pay a small fee to graze on public land).  Pat, don't you  
remember the egg recall and why they were recalled and that Jack De  
Coster has not spent one day in jail?  If I dumped De Coster's kind of  
pollution in your yard I would go to jail!

I heard the Vice Chair of Iowa Heritage Foundation speak so powerfully  
why we should vote for our Land and Water proposal, saying Farm Bureau  
is the only opposition.  FB represents people like Jack De Coster.   
The tea party is helping sway this election because of the billions of  
dollars from special interest who want no regulation for air and water  
pollution or toxins in our food.  Donations to environmental supporter  
candidates from Sierra Club members, many retired and on fixed  
incomes, and all the other environmental groups put together, can't  
match the funding from billionaires like Charles and David Koch--oil  
men from KS.  Pat we are outspent by tea party supporters by billions  
of dollars!

The final insult on our journey through KS was at a rest stop West of  
Salina.  Tourist information at the rest stop--remember this is a  
federal highway, ended with "The tall grass prairie was a desert that  
the people of Kansas turned into the breadbasket of America".  Pat,  
please explain why you think the tea party makes common sense?   
Phyllis Mains

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