We, as the backbone of the country, need someone to represent us who has “an affinity for agricultural issues as well as an understanding of farming and ranching people,” affirms Gene Hall. Not to be too negative about our representatives, I would like to conjecture that we do have several representatives that are champions of agriculture. Texas Farm Bureau president, Russell Boening, acknowledges that Congressman Mike Conaway, Republican representative from Texas District 11 and Chairman of the House Committee of Agriculture spends a lot of time learning out in the field with framers and ranchers and working for farmers and ranchers in DC. And Texas Senator, John Cornyn acknowledges that “no-one is a better steward of the land than those who work the land.” In the Texas House of Representatives, legislatures Tracy King and Mary Gonzalez admit that agriculture is not just a word it is a family sacrifice. We need to continue on this path of teaching those in government and all the citizens of the United States to recognize the importance of agriculture as the sustainability of this nation. After all this country was founded as an agrarian society and can only survive on the backs of agricultural producers.
Please go out and vote on or before November 8th; it is your “unalienable right” as a United States citizen.”
“Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature…. If the next centennial does not find us a great nation … it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces”. James Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States, 1877 “We the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts–not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution”.
Abraham Lincoln
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