TYT: Joni Ernst's Family Received Hundreds Of Thousands In Government Aid

[WhoIsNumberNone]

"Despite Sen. Joni Ernst’s (R-IA) rhetoric about growing up poor on Tuesday night, her family actually received hundreds of thousands of dollars in government aid between 1995 and 2009, the District Sentinel news co-op reported.

Farm subsidy records indicate that the freshman senator’s father, Richard Culver, has received $38,395 in commodity subsidies and conservation payments, with all but $12 of the money being used for support of his corn crops. Ernst’s uncle, Dallas Culver, has reportedly received $250,000 in federal corn subsidies and $117,141 in additional aid. And her paternal grandfather, Harold Culver, got an additional $57,479 in aid between 1995 and 2001.

Ernst did not mention her family’s use of federal programs during her response to the State of the Union. Instead, she said she was raised “simply” and taught to live within her means."

[yeoman6987]

1. She is 44 today. 1995 she was 25.

She MIGHT have been poor as a child. Who knows. She is a wacky Tea Party politician who screwed up her future on Tuesday. She is a one and done Senator. One thing we need Iowan Democratic primary voters to do is pick a great candidate to beat her.

[Dawson Leery]

2. HYPOCRITE!

Most who get farm subsidies are against government welfare. Conservative voters are true hypocrites.

I am for eliminating all agro-subsidies.

[SmittynMo]

3. "Shutting the door" is right!!!

It's soooooo republican. Take advantage of those subsidies, exceed in life, shut the f*cking door behind you and don't look back. Now, do your best to cut that pork in Washington, by referencing a castration of a pig. Then, do your best to take all the free shit away from the lower/middle class. She's sooooooooooo tea party republican. Why, oh why, do people pick people like this? What a f*cking hypocrite.

Stupidity? Ignorance? I don't get it. Hopefully after this term, she's gone.

Damn, they sure know how to pick em.

[IkeRepublican]

4. That's a shit ton of breadbags!

Let her crash and totaled for all I care.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. Christian dominionist

As far as how people may have voted...we can't know if/how the software might have manipulated voters actual votes...Do you trust the Corporations who own these secret, black box vote "counters" with all their secret, proprietary software coding???

[KansDem]

6. No...

Do you trust the Corporations who own these secret, black box vote "counters" with all their secret, proprietary software coding???

...I don't

Take Ohio, 2004, for example --

In Warren County, Ohio, election officials took a rather unprecedented action on November 2: They locked down the building where the votes were being tallied, blocking anyone from observing the vote counting process. President Bush won 72% of the vote in the county. We speak with the reporter who broke the story. [includes rush transcript]

Earlier this week on Democracy Now!, we reported on a story in Ohio’s Franklin County. In one precinct, 638 people cast ballots. Yet, George W Bush got 4,258 votes to John Kerry’s 260. In reality, Bush only received 365 votes. That means Bush got nearly 3,900 extra votes. And that was just in one small precinct. This in a state that Bush officially won by only 136,000 votes. Elections officials blamed electronic voting for the extra Bush votes.

Now, questions are being raised across the state of Ohio. In Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the County’s website shows its 29 precincts had more votes than voters. In fact, it wasn’t just a handful. It registered a whopping 93,000 more votes than voters. In Fairview Park, twelve miles west of downtown Cleveland, only 13,342 people were registered voters there, but they cast 18,472 votes.

Meanwhile, in Warren County, Ohio election officials took a rather unprecedented action on November 2. They locked down the building where the votes were being tallied, blocking anyone from observing the vote counting process. County officials said they took the action in response to a terror threat warning from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. County Commissioner Pat South said they were told by an FBI agent that the county was facing a level 10 security threat on a scale of 1 to 10. George Bush won 72% of the county’s more than 92,000 votes.

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http://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/10/the_ohio_factor_did_homeland_security

Both the DHS and FBI stated they did not issue a terror threat warning. From "Democracy Now!" --

AMY GOODMAN: Can you summarize your piece in today’s Cincinnati Enquirer?

ERICA SOLVIG: Well, the story that ran today is reiterating the County Commissioner’s stance of Homeland Security concerns. They say, as you have already mentioned, that the county was facing a terrorist threat that ranked 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. We talked to several officials with the homeland security department as well as the FBI. They knew of no increased terrorism concerns in Warren County in particular, and just, again, raising the continuing concerns regarding Homeland Security and being locked out of the building. The primary focus of all of the articles has been on, you know, the First Amendment issues and the open government issues that are raised when the public and the media are locked out of the process.

So what's up? Was there or was there not a "terrorist threat?" I think not...

And I don't know why, after these vote-tabulation frauds, we still continue to "count the votes" behind closed doors with these machines.

[the_sly_pig]

7. Meet the new Bachman!!

What congress should never be without. A Reich wing, nut-choppin, gay-hatin, god-lovin, gun-mounting, gay-hatin, uber-christian, mid-western embarrassment. Thanks Iowa for taking the heat off us....