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5 years ago FYI
Former Lt. Governor Patty Judge was a late entry and the DSCC candidate in the Democratic primary in 2016 for Grassley’s Senate seat. She has been a friend of Big Ag throughout her career. In the Iowa Senate, in 1995, she supported the bill that removed all zoning authority regarding local animal confinements from local elected officials and that has subsequently facilitated the rapid growth of CAFOs in IA. She was a board member and media surrogate for the Iowa Partnership for Clean Water, formed and funded by corporate interests and the Farm Bureau, to oppose the Des Moines Water Works lawsuit against three drainage districts over nitrate pollution. The Iowa Partnership for Clean Water ran misleading television ads opposing Des Moines Water Works, and Patty Judge said that there are many sources of nitrate pollution other than conventional agriculture. The IA Farm Bureau, which worked to ensure that IA’s nutrient reduction strategy for waterways was entirely voluntary (not surprisingly, it hasn’t worked), gave Patty Judge a “Distinguished Service to Agriculture” award in 2013, recognizing her promotion of renewable fuels when she served as secretary of agriculture. She was also co-chair of America’s Renewable Future, the biofuels industry group advocating for the ethanol mandate. Focus on Rural America is her relatively new group formed to “find out which ‘progressive’ economic messages ‘resonate’ in rural Iowa.” FORA has Facebook and Twitter pages promoting its poll and its pick up by the media. See Bleeding Heartland March-April 2016 posts for more on Patty Judge, Radio Iowa’s May 2017 announcement of Judge’s new FORA, and FORA’s FB and Twitter pages.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/09/200pm-water-cooler-9-20-2020.html#comment-3213321
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thekalinga
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