AK-Sen: Joe Miller's $14,000 government handout

[Joanne98]

Here's some great research from The Mudflats.

Maybe it’s the fact that he’s Kansas born and bred, or maybe it was just the sweet smell of the great outdoors, barley, and a little extra folding money - whatever it was, senate candidate Joe Miller apparently decided after he came to Alaska, he’d try his hand at farming.

Farmer Joe bought himself a thousand acres in Alaska’s Fairbanks North Star Borough. And what did he have a yen to grow on his arable land in the sleepy hollow of Delta Junction?

Barley, it would appear. But life as a farmer/ivy league attorney is tough. Sometimes a feller could use a helping hand. Maybe something like a nice check from . . . the Federal government! Joe’s misguided intellectual and philosophical purity about how we shouldn’t rely on the federal government for anything did not keep him from making a little extra cash on the side thanks to you the taxpayer. That’s right, Mr. ’Who Needs the Feds?’ collected more than $14,000 in federal farm subsidies between 1995 and 2003, including barley and conservation subsidies.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/9/17/902568/-AK-Sen:-Joe-Millers-$14,000-government-handout

[existentialist]

1. a common pattern, and

here in South Dakota Republican candidate for Congress Kristi Noem's share of her family's farm subsidies topped $40,000.

Kristi Noem is also campaigning on getting rid of government handouts.


a couple of days ago I saw Cenk Unger do a video on the government assistance received by the Republican candidate running against Senator Feingold in Wisconsin.


Are there any Republican candidates that haven't accepting government subsidies or who aren't now running against them?

[Count Olaf]

2. we have to keep screaming about this hypocrisy

They have absolutely nothing to defend themselves with other than "I reject that" which worked so well for Bush.