#Vilsack

Biden picking Vilsack to run USDA isn’t just bad because Vilsack is bad. His appointment proves that Democrats, and Joe Biden, still profoundly do not get what it takes to
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1/ Biden, the alleged "unity" candidate has just announced his nomination of Vilsack to lead USDA. The only thing unifying about Vilsack? A broad coalition of groups vehemently oppose his
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Paul Adams appeared in this Biden campaign ad shortly after he and I started talking about the failure of his dairy farm in Wisconsin.He says in the ad, "Joe Biden
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Vilsack has a troubling history with Big Agriculture monopolies, and he has deep opposition from Black farmers and civil rights advocates. For these reasons, we oppose President-elect Biden's nomination of
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According to Politico, a "person close to Biden" is defending Vilsack's civil rights record by claiming that discrimination complaints went down at USDA under Vilsack "according to USDA's own data."
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Vilsack promised to prioritize antitrust enforcement, climate change, and discrimination in 2009 and then proceeded to exacerbate those very problems. I get the desire to find victories but this isn't
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Listening to @PodSaveAmerica fellate corporate agriculture tool Vilsack this morning is infuriating. Have y’all ever even spoken to an actual farmer? In 2001, as Governor of Iowa, Vilsack was named
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Two more stories about @Transition46's self-sabotaging pick of Tom Vilsack to the USDA, in the @Nytimes and this one from @GeorgeGoehl director of @PplsAction:The Biden team has united the multi-racial
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This framing is BS. If Heitkamp and Vilsack are so great at garnering support from white rural people, why are both of their states ruled by right wing ghouls? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/us/politics/biden-agriculture.html?referringS
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Black farmers, Black USDA staff, Black civil society, and the Congressional Black Caucus AND farm, rural, and environmental groups have made it clear that Vilsack is the wrong choice for
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In his opening testimony, Vilsack includes "[redesigning] laws to promote openness and fairness" and improve competition as one of his top four priorities The Secretary indirectly acknowledged some of the
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Just want to flag that the Politico reporting that Biden switched from Heitkamp to Vilsack b/c of criticism from @WhipClyburn doesn't fully make sense on it's own, but especially doesn't
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Via @revolvingdoorDC: "Why Vilsack is the Wrong Choice to for USDA Secretary"https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/tom-vilsack-the-wrong-choice-for-usda-secretary/ Vilsack claimed he ushered in a “new era for civil rights” at US
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This is just Democrats doubling and tripling down on a losing strategy.After 8 years of broken anti-trust promises at Vilsack's USDA, rural voters rejected Dems. After Vilsack heading Biden's rural
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This NYT piece on Vilsack is pretty paint-by-the-numbers, gets into a lot of his baggage, etc. One hilarious flaw tho. /threadhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/us/politics/vilsack-usda-small-farmers.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stori
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Tom Vilsack, a.k.a. Mr. Monsanto, is Biden's pick for Agriculture Secretary. He was secretary of agriculture under Obama. Branko Marcetic (@BMarchetich) previously summarized for @inthesetimesmag how Vilsack earned the moniker
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