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Mar 23 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
It's not just consumers who get price gouged. Family famers are crushed by the monopoly power of big food companies that donate millions to politicians. Hormel's former CEO is now running against me for Congress in #MN01. Pay to play.
hpj.com/ag_news/althou… via @HighPlainsJrnl
Voters in @MN01 don't want to choose between insurrectionists and meat company monopolists. Price fixers have been living high off the hog for too long. Somebody must stand up for consumers and farmers. That's why I'm in this race, but I need your help.
painterforcongress.org/?fbclid=IwAR3I…
After four years of Trump's DOJ not enforcing antitrust laws against oil and food companies, the GOP blames @POTUS for inflation. An ExxonMobil CEO close to Putin was Secretary of State. Now the former Hormel Foods CEO is running for Congress. What a rip off for the rest of us.
Some of these oil and food monopolists even call themselves "Democrats" while making millions and giving thousands to the GOP Senatorial Committee. Rather than just reading the label, smart voters do what they would do before buying a can of pork. Find out what's really inside.
The biggest "supply chain" problem is the uninterrupted supply of money going from price fixing oil and food companies and their CEOs to Congress to keep their monopoly alive and prices high. All while @POTUS gets blamed for inflation. What a scam!

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Richard W. Painter Profile picture
Mar 16
Giant food company CEOs think they own Congress. It’s time to show them otherwise.
It’s also time for DOJ to enforce the antitrust laws. Price fixers belong in the slammer. salon.com/2022/02/17/gia…
So, @mngop blames @POTUS for inflation while being in the back pocket of giant food company CEOs who are fixing prices. DOJ needs to start enforcing the criminal provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act. If they put a few executives in handcuffs, some prices will settle down.
This letter from @ewarren to DOJ's Antitrust Division exposes price fixing in the poultry industry. Price fixing in the pork industry is also being investigated and litigated. This is what meat company CEOs and the GOP say is just "inflation."
We call BS
warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
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Mar 13
The price of pork at the grocery store is sky high.
But hog farmers in Minnesota are getting less.
So, where's all the money going?
Don't we have antitrust laws?
Wake up #MN01. It's time for a blue wave in rural America!

Hog prices keep sliding nationalhogfarmer.com/news/hog-price…
The sharply rising price of pork in grocery stores minus the stable or declining price paid to hog farmers and declining real wages for labor equals PROFIT for big meat processing corporations. They reinvest a portion of that profit to buy seats in Congress. What a #SpamScam!
"Hog prices...are half of the $134.41/cwt. June peak and are close to dropping below the year-ago level for the first time this year."
Don't talk about "inflation" to the Minnesota farmer. They're not getting the money. Big business is.
It's time for a Blue Wave in rural America!
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Mar 10
My opponent in #MN01 was the CEO of Hormel during this price fixing conspiracy alleged in multiple federal suits. You contributed to his campaign every time you bought a sandwich.

Restaurants Sue Hormel, Others For Alleged Pork Price-Fixing Scheme tcbmag.com/restaurants-su…
Sick of sky high food prices?
In Congress I'll hold DOJ's feet to the fire and insist they enforce the Sherman Act, prosecuting anti-trust violations and putting price fixing executives in the slammer.
Help us flip #MN01 blue here:
painterforcongress.org/?fbclid=IwAR3I…
Within two years former Hormel Foods CEO Jeff Ettinger gave $5,000 to the Republican Senatorial Committee and $50,000 to the Minnesota Victory PAC of @Tim_Walz. Putting bets on red and blue is a favorite strategy in pay to play. The rest of us just pay at the checkout lane.
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Mar 3
Justices Gorsuch and Sotomayor are right. This information should be disclosed. Despite the Court's ruling, @POTUS has the power to order disclosure of this and all other information about the torture program and should do that. Disclose all of it.
nytimes.com/2022/03/03/us/…
“We know already that our government treated Zubaydah brutally — more than 80 waterboarding sessions, hundreds of hours of live burial and what it calls ‘rectal rehydration.’ ... But as embarrassing as these facts may be, there is no state secret here.”
The torture jihadists want torture information kept classified.
The academic freedom jihadists think torture lawyer John Yoo should be teaching law students and advising presidents about executive power.
Time to call BS.
Transparency and accountability are the only path forward.
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Feb 23
The Glencore-PolyMet sulfide mine will destroy the Lake Superior Watershed and other Minnesota waterways. Our message to Putin friendly Glencore: Get Lost!
startribune.com/new-lawsuit-sa…
If the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a bad idea, this is worse.
Glencore's C.E.O. got the medal of friendship from Vladimir Putin.
This is one more reason we don't want the Glencore-PolyMet sulfide mine in Minnesota.
reuters.com/article/us-rus…
Foreign sulfide mining companies say we should allow the Lake Superior watershed and Boundary Waters to be polluted so they can mine copper and nickel for electric vehicle batteries.
What for? Russian tanks?
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Feb 9
Corporations across America use bias training to improve the workplace and avoid discrimination lawsuits, but some clueless academics still insist that law schools shouldn't do the same. It would be terrible if they prepared students for the real world.
reuters.com/legal/governme…
One of the most vocal critics of the ABA rule on bias training is a professor who insisted that law school deans must remain silent about racism and the murder of George Floyd and who called history scholar Nikole Hannah-Jones an "imbecile" because he disagreed with her. Nuts.
One Twitter clown wrote in his blog "It is a shame there is no solid evidence such training is effective in reducing bias."
Depends on who's doing the training. This guy obviously shouldn't be the one. He denies or justifies bias every time he sees it.
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