A 'small wager'?  Exactly.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Wally Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Or have Mitt Romney offer the $10,000.
>
> Wally Taylor
>
>  We could probably offer a prize of, oh, $10,000
>
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: William Witt <[log in to unmask]>
> To: IOWA-TOPICS <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Mon, Feb 13, 2012 8:49 am
> Subject: Re: DM Register--thank you Francis Thicke
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>   How about a contest?  Can anyone document an example of Iowa Farm
> Bureau lobbying where they *weren't *trying to hoodwink the public?
>
> We could probably offer a prize of, oh, $10,000--confident that no one
> will collect.
>
> BW
>
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Phyllis Mains <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> **
>>  Farm Bureau trying to 'hoodwink' the public
>>   Iowa Farm Bureau President Craig Hill’s argument against linking
>> conservation compliance to crop insurance subsidies is based on a fallacy
>> (“Farmers’ Concerns Are Not Imaginary,” Feb. 5).
>> The centerpiece of Hill’s argument against conservation compliance is
>> that it would make fixing a gulley on a no-till field disruptive of field
>> operations because it “requires prior Natural Resources Conservation
>> Service approval, which is often a two- or three-day process.” That sounded
>> incorrect to me, so I checked with an NRCS official, and he concurred that
>> it is simply not true that prior approval is needed to fix a gulley on a
>> no-till field.
>> The Farm Bureau should simply acknowledge that they would like to receive
>> federal subsidies without obligation for conservation, rather than try to
>> hoodwink the public with a disingenuous argument.
>> — Francis Thicke, Fairfield
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