…because in the end, even if you carry their water for them, they’ll reward you by endorsing your opponent.
Farm Bureau rejects Skelton, endorses Republican for first time in 14 years
By: Darrell Todd Maurina
Posted: Friday, August 20, 2010 9:52 pmSEDALIA, Mo. (Aug. 20, 2010) – For the first time since the mid-1990s, U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton has lost the endorsement of the Missouri Farm Bureau’s political action committee.
The trustees of Missouri’s 4th Congressional District FARM-PAC announced Friday morning that they’ll be endorsing Vicky Hartzler, a former state representative from Harrisonville, over Skelton…
“…He had a favorable record on voting with ag issues of importance to Farm Bureau. The questions that came up again and again in the discussion was how over the past four years Congressman Skelton has voted like 95 percent of the time with (Speaker of the House) Nancy Pelosi,” Bassett said…
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Yeah, Ike Skelton voted for agriculture, but you use a right wingnut front organization’s attack ad talking point to explain your endorsement of a republican? Party hack.
Ah, for the days of hardball politics, when this kind of blatant partisanship at the expense of actual issues was rewarded with a permanent sojourn in the wilderness of irrelevance. “Congressman, Farm Bureau is on the line.” “Put ’em on hold, and leave the phone off the hook.”
cap-and-trade – even though Skelton certainly did not support it – or much of anything else in the energy policy area that went against the Republican line. The spokesman, nevertheless, cited Skelton’s close of relationship with Nancy Pelosi as if this imaginary association, which Hartzler has harped on since declaring as a candidate, could justify opprobrium in any circumstance.