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[WA Sen] Candidate who bashes U.S. aid got thousands in subsidies for farm
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP May 20, 2010 02:57pm |
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| Author | Jim Brunner |
| Media | Newspaper - Seattle Times |
| News Date | Monday, May 17, 2010 08:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Republican U.S. Senate candidate Clint Didier likes to bash bloated government as he courts support of the conservative tea-party movement for his primary-election campaign.
A former NFL player turned farmer, Didier has repeatedly called the federal government "a predator." He vows to oppose the "Marxist utopia" he says Democrats want to create — "where everyone is taken care of from womb to tomb."
But Didier himself has cashed in on one big government aid program. He has received nearly $273,000 in federal farm subsidies since 1995, according to a database of U.S. Department of Agriculture subsidies maintained by the Environmental Working Group (EWG). |
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