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


On 10/25/2010 12:41 PM, Pat Knueven wrote: 
The Tea Party is doind so well because they make common sense.

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