Who, besides Open Secrets, has campaign contribution data? I wanna know about this shitbag:

[Stinky The Clown]

Steve Mendell



Westland/Hallmark president and supplier to the World of that new gourmet delight, Downer Cattle Meats.

I got no hits for his name on Open Secrets.

I'll bet my left nut he's a Repubic.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-hallmark13mar13,1,7441530.story

[babylonsister]

1. Try newsmeat, here:

http://www.newsmeat.com/

[Stinky The Clown]

2. No hits there either .....

.... but thanks for the link! :hi:

[notadmblnd]

3. Love this testimony, just like a little kid with his hand caught in the cookie jar

The panel’s chairman, Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., asked Mendell whether it was logical to conclude from the video that at least two downer cows entered the nation’s food supply.

“That would be logical, yes sir,” Mendell said.

“Has your company ever illegally slaughtered, processed, or sold a downer cow?” Stupak asked.

“I didn’t think we had sir,” Mendell said.

Reminding him that he was appearing under oath, lawmakers asked him why he claimed in written testimony that the abused cows where headed to be euthanized, not for the food supply.

“I had not seen what I saw here today,” said Mendell. He said that the Agriculture Department had refused to allow him to see some of the undercover video shot by the Humane Society of the United States.

Stupak pointed out that the video has been posted on the Humane Society Web site.

http://nedraggett.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/steve-mendell-unintentional-hero-to-the-vegetarian-mindset/

[Stinky The Clown]

4. He wants to blame two guys named Hector and Jose ......

.... rogue actors ...... you know how it goes ...... :::wink wink:::

[notadmblnd]

5. It just kills me that these people are considered smart enough to run corporations

but when it comes to answering for anything, they become as dumb as a box of rocks.

[catnhatnh]

6. Couldn't find any exact matches,but for general info....

...from the Minnesota Daily.....


Last month, Westland/Hallmark Meat Company of California recalled 143 million pounds of beef - the largest in U.S. history.
More than 37 million pounds of suspect beef has gone to U.S. schools in the past two years. Schools in St. Paul had nearly 21 tons of the questionable meat, the most of any Minnesota school district. Since the beginning of this school year, students and staff in St. Paul schools have eaten more than 17,000 pounds of recalled beef.

In order to process the ailing cattle, Westland/Hallmark Meat Company workers were caught on film kicking sick cows and using forklifts to force-walk them to their slaughter.

Since 2000, the fast-food and meatpacking industries have given about four-fifths of their political donations to Republican candidates for national office. In return, the previous chief of staff at the USDA was the beef industry's chief lobbyist. Also, the former head of the FDA used to be an executive at the National Food Processors Association.

In "The Jungle," Upton Sinclair called it "The Beef Trust." We now find our own meatpacking industry adhering to the same unhealthy standards, only we are now in the turn of the 20th century.

[seasat]

7. Check the California Election department

You might have to do some digging but most state commissions list all the campaign contributions to each candidate. Pick the Repugs local to him and look for him or his company's name.