GOP Congressional Candidate Courts Tea Party with Anti-Government Rhetoric, Receives $200,000 Annual

[Joanne98]

Steve Benen highlights yet another example of KEEP YOUR GUBMINT HANDS OFF MY GUBMINT WELFARE syndrome.

But for one important detail, Stephen Fincher could be a perfect “tea party” candidate: a gospel-singing cotton farmer from this tiny hamlet in western Tennessee, seeking to right the listing ship of Washington with a commitment to lower taxes and smaller government.

The detail? Fincher accepts roughly $200,000 in farm subsidies each year.

That’s right, just like Michele Bachmann. And really, this is perfectly consistent with the way most Teabaggers think.

Fincher says he wants to “fight government encroachment in our lives” and opposes “any attempt to increase government intervention in our health care” and thinks that the solution to all our problems is “the free market.”

But that $200 grand he gets every year from the gubmint? He’ll keep that, thanks very much.

And the rubes are lapping it up

http://firedoglake.com/2010/04/02/gop-congressional-candidate-courts-tea-party-with-anti-government-rhetoric-receives-200000-annually-in-government-handouts/

We need the AG dept to post a report listing the names of everyone getting farm subsides.

[LiberalFighter]

1. Those farm subsidies aren't provided automatically.

He had to make an application for it. And agree to follow the requirements for the subsidies.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. How do these people explain inconsistencies like that?

[denverbill]

3. Democrats need to end cotton subsidies, period.

Sugar too.

I'd bet 95% of those plantation owners are hard-core 'conservatives'. Why we keep subsidizing them is beyond me.