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In reply to the discussion: Before you jump on Obama over the Monsanto amendment, take a minute and read this [View all]Smilo
(1,944 posts)So there is no line item veto - then just veto the whole thing and sent back to Congress to have the Monsanto Protection Act removed from the bill.
Yes it would take balls - but it is time we showed corporations that we are not just going to roll over.
I don't care how the GOPT look at this and make their snide little comments - the fact of the matter is that this is wrong and we know it and they know it.
As for the rider's sponser - not only is Blunt the recipient of a lot of Monsanto's money, but
Blunts wife, Abigail Perlman, is the in-house lobbyist for Kraft Foods, who donated heavily to battle against mandatory labeling of GMOs. Before this, when the good Baptist Blunt divorced his wife of 30+ years to marry Perlman, she lobbied for Altria/Phillip Morris, where Blunts son Andy was also a lobbyist. An article on The Daily Kos pointed out that, at the time Roy Blunt, the bastion of Missouri values, was helping his lobbyist girlfriend, he was still married to another woman.
Blunts son, Matt, was the governor of Missouri from 2005-2009. According to an article on The Nation, Matt Blunt was such a champion of Monsantos GM products that its CEO presented him with the annual leadership award of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, a Monsanto-backed group.