McCaskill stresses ag issues in rural tour: Missouri

[Tsiyu]

From Springfield, MO's News-Leader.com


WILLARD — U.S. Senate candidate Claire McCaskill's push for the rural vote continued Friday at a series of small-town stops where she portrayed incumbent Sen. Jim Talent as a Washington insider beholden to corporate agriculture at the expense of family farmers.

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In Ashland, Cooper County farmer Steve Brengarth introduced McCaskill and quickly noted that Talent, as a state representative in 1988 and 1990, opposed an ethanol rebate program and backed then-Gov. John Ashcroft's veto of a Democratic ethanol support plan.

Brengarth called Talent's apparent change of heart — he's featured with Rep. Ike Skelton on the cover of the most recent issue of Missouri Soybean Farmer — a move based in politics.

"When things become political ... Mr. Talent seems to goes that way," Brengarth said. "That's not someone you want for a leader. You want someone who's watching out for us all along."






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[Sherman A1]

1. Really hoping

That Claire wins this one.

[Tsiyu]

2. She's definitely on the correct side of things

I believe she will make sense to the farmers in Missouri. She is at least reaching out.