Comments on: Subsidized Agriculture and Illegal Immigration http://joecobb.com/2006/12/17/subsidized-agriculture-and-illegal-immigration/ Stand Up for Human Rights Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:39:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe Cobb http://joecobb.com/2006/12/17/subsidized-agriculture-and-illegal-immigration/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Joe Cobb Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:22:27 +0000 http://www.joecobb.com/blog/2006/12/17/subsidized-agriculture-and-illegal-immigration/#comment-10 Arizona Senator Jon Kyle and Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Az 7th District) also support these agricultural subsidies and protectionism. Shame on them! Not only did they vote to keep milk prices higher for low income consumers in Arizona and California, they supported putting their own constituent, Sarah Farms in Yuma, out of business. Read this report from the San Diego Union-Tribune, December 15. <strong>Congress Helps Milk Gang Thwart Outsider</strong> http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20061215/news_lz1ed15bottom.html The article detailes a three-year, multimillion-dollar lobbying and campaign contribution blitz by the dairy cartel. With key assists from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev, <strong>Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz</strong>, and Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Tulare [Ca], the blitz paid off this spring with the passage of a bill that forced Hein Hettinga, owner of Sarah Farms, to give much or most of his profits to one of the regional cartel pools – in other words, to his competitors. A dairy industry lobbyist openly bragged to the Post that he helped write the measure. The Arizona Republic newspaper published an earlier story about Hein Hettinga, the owner of Sarah Farms, and his fight against the dairy cartel on Nov.14 It is reprinted on this dairy industry news website: http://www.westerndairybusiness.net/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1163524253&archive=&start_from=&ucat=24 Arizona Senator Jon Kyle and Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Az 7th District) also support these agricultural subsidies and protectionism. Shame on them!

Not only did they vote to keep milk prices higher for low income consumers in Arizona and California, they supported putting their own constituent, Sarah Farms in Yuma, out of business. Read this report from the San Diego Union-Tribune, December 15.

Congress Helps Milk Gang Thwart Outsider
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20061215/news_lz1ed15bottom.html
The article detailes a three-year, multimillion-dollar lobbying and campaign contribution blitz by the dairy cartel. With key assists from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz, and Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Tulare [Ca], the blitz paid off this spring with the passage of a bill that forced Hein Hettinga, owner of Sarah Farms, to give much or most of his profits to one of the regional cartel pools – in other words, to his competitors. A dairy industry lobbyist openly bragged to the Post that he helped write the measure.

The Arizona Republic newspaper published an earlier story about Hein Hettinga, the owner of Sarah Farms, and his fight against the dairy cartel on Nov.14

It is reprinted on this dairy industry news website:
http://www.westerndairybusiness.net/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1163524253&archive=&start_from=&ucat=24

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