GOP Candidate Hartzler Wants ‘Government To Leave Us Alone’ Yet Has Taken $774,325 In Federal Subsid

[Joanne98]

Yesterday, GOP congressional candidate Vicky Hartzler, who is angling to replace Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO), appeared on conservative Mark Levin’s radio show. Levin probed Hartzler’s view on a variety of issues, including why she, the owner of a small farm business with her husband, wanted to run against Skelton.

Hartzler explained that she’s a “lifelong farmer and a small town girl” and that she decided to run for Congress to get the government off her back. “We just want the government to leave us alone here in Missouri’s 4th,” she told Levin:

LEVIN: Now, tell us a little bit about yourself.

HARTZLER: Sure, I’m just one of the people of the 4th district, lifelong farmer and a small town girl, went to school here my whole life. My husband and I are small business owners. We sell farm equipment, we have three stores. I was a teacher for several years, was a state rep for six years, a wife and a mom. We just want the government to leave us alone here in Missouri’s 4th.

Listen to it
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/21/hartzler-hypocrite-farm/

[hfojvt]

1. Well the key line is this

"The problem with Hartzler’s self-righteous invocation for the government to “leave us alone,” is that it has done anything but that with her farm business. According to data collected by the Environmental Working Group, Hartzler and her husband’s farm outside Harrisonville, Missouri, has “received $774,325 in federal subsidies from 1995 to 2009.”"

So $55,000 a year in subsidies. Talk about a welfare queen.

One trouble though is that perhaps lots of voters in that district have gotten similar subsidies, so it is hard to attack her for them. But I am guessing lots of people in that district make less than $55,000 a year.

[Historic NY]

2. The I got mine you can't have yours crowd of Repukes.