tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post6761357245919144815..comments2023-10-08T04:12:46.273-05:00Comments on The Political Environment: Tuesday is dairy lobbying day at the State CapitolJames Rowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-90138177471177942832020-01-21T18:06:53.620-06:002020-01-21T18:06:53.620-06:00Same. Must be for PR reasons.Same. Must be for PR reasons.Jake formerly of the LPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660401299391001751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-16589975719001653802020-01-21T16:03:49.142-06:002020-01-21T16:03:49.142-06:00Secretary Cole joked that some people refer to him...Secretary Cole joked that some people refer to himself, Erick Ebersberger and Brian Weigle as the 3 stooges. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-89533201413231542182020-01-21T08:31:19.366-06:002020-01-21T08:31:19.366-06:00Surprising that they need a lobbying day. I assume...Surprising that they need a lobbying day. I assumed the GOP had DBA on speed dial so legislators could get their marching orders in a hurry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-2887285080232851342020-01-21T07:01:03.658-06:002020-01-21T07:01:03.658-06:00The DBA will minimize acknowledgement, and discour...The DBA will minimize acknowledgement, and discourage public awareness, of the rise in small family farm bankruptcies in Wisconsin, while pushing for legislation to make CAFO's even more free from oversight and regulation. DBA "successes" in this latter category will result in still more contaminated wells and groundwater, more rural air pollution, more destruction of wetlands, and more rural poverty and depopulation.<br />The DBA is a corporate lobbying entity capable of doing even more economic harm to Wisconsin than ordinary Wisconsinites realize. It is rife with contingency thinkers bent on wringing short term profits from rural Wisconsin. The fact that their efforts will lead to long term pollution of the air, land and water, pollution that will be cleaned up/paid for by the ordinary Wisconsin taxpayer(!) (This is also called Socialism for one-percenters and corporations!) is not something the DBA will admit.Maynard McKillenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06202870333077627636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-43734577642797522922020-01-21T06:26:45.897-06:002020-01-21T06:26:45.897-06:00It's hilarious how Big Ag is pretending that U...It's hilarious how Big Ag is pretending that USMCA is the cure-all for the farm crisis. In fact, it's the existence of Big Ag and all of the advantages the GOP gives them that leads to the overproduction and pollution that is wrecking the farm economy and rural life.<br /><br /> My only question is why do rurals keep voting GOP when this is the outcome? Jake formerly of the LPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660401299391001751noreply@blogger.com