Garrett gets food industry award
By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com ReporterU.S. Rep. E. Scott Garrett has won a 2008 Thomas Jefferson Award from the International Foodservice Distributors Association (IFDA).
The award, according to the group, is presented to legislators who “demonstrate their commitment to increasing opportunity and reducing government regulation through their votes on issues such as reducing taxes, workplace regulations, and other economic matters.”
Garrett received the award because his votes agreed with the IFDA’s stance over 70% of the time.
“During the 110th Congress, Representative Garrett cast crucial votes to protect America’s usinesses and promote prosperity for the American people,” said IFDA President and CEO Mark S. Allen
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I smell lobbyist
I smell lobbyist influence!!!! Quick! Check to see if any of Garrett's staff has connections to this powerful lobbying group! Also check to see if they are a front for the vast right wing conspiracy!!
Deregulate & Degrade the food supply
Mr. Deregulation should take the prize for voting to degrade the nations food supply, most recently the attack of the killer (botulism) tomatoes. This is the guy who puts the "I" in ideology.
Garrett is a Tool of Corrupt Interests...
At this point, I don't even think it requires a dollar "contribution".
If we lived in the kind of totally "unregulated" nation that Garrett fantasizes about; America would be a complete hell hole.
The closest thing to unregulated robber baron capitalism on the world scene today is, ironically, "red" China.....and Russia runs a close second.
What Garrett doesn't understand is that unbridled raw "self interest" is actually un-Christian.
I would LOVE to see Scott Garrett engage Dr/Rabbi Dennis Shulman in a series of, say, a dozen 90 minute debates on questions of policy and the economic/moral implications of their respective positions.
Here's twelve potential topics.
Education, Middle East, Oil Prices, Global Warming, NJ Development/Land Use, FISA and the 4th Amendment, the regulation of the food industry and regulation in general, the Bush/Cheney/Garrett justifications for invading/occupying Iraq, how/when we extricate ourselves from Iraq, How we fight terrorism, campaign finance reform, Social Security and how we fund it, anduniversal health care and how we fund it.
I'm sure there's another dozen that y'all could come up with.
They could have one a week for the next three months.
Of course, Garrett doesn't have the balls or the brains or the heart to engage in such a dialog.
Please, Scottie, prove me wrong, contact Shulman and accept my challenge...I have no doubt he'd be amenable!
Make my day!
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