Iowa Political Alert: Romney Called For Cutting Farm Subsidies

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Romney Called For Cutting Farm Subsidies

(Cross-posted at Iowa Independent)
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the front-runner in Iowa, called for the "virtual elimination" of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and cuts to farm subsides in his failed 1994 U.S. Senate race against Ted Kennedy.

Romney opponents are now are citing a debate and several Boston news articles in which the former Massachusetts governor said, among other things, "I also believe we're going to have agricultural subsidies reduced."

Read the full story at Iowa Independent.

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Douglas Burns is a writer and columnist for the Daily Times Herald in Carroll, Iowa. Burns is also a co-owner of the newspaper which has been in his family for three generations.

Additionally, Burns is a contributor to The Center for Rural Strategies' Daily Yonder, a national online rural newspaper. He also writes a regular column, Political Mercury, for Cityview, a Des Moines weekly newspaper.

Burns is a Cedar Rapids native who grew up in Carroll and graduated from Carroll High School in 1987 before moving on to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where he majored in journalism and graduated in 1991.