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Mar 27 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
In my race for Congress in #MN01 supporting @POTUS against price fixing by big meatpacking monopolies will be a big issue. The pork industry is pouring enormous amounts of money into Minnesota politics to stop us while the GOP blames Biden for high prices.
investigatemidwest.org/2022/03/02/opi…
"Smithfield Foods (owned by China's WH Group) JBS, Tyson and Hormel account for 67% of U.S. pork production."
What percent of the U.S. House of Representatives do they control with their campaign cash?
I'll be fighting to make sure they don't own #MN01.
The GOP blames "inflation" on @POTUS. If this were just inflation, the hog farmer would get paid more when the price of pork goes up in the grocery store. That's not happening. Where does all the money go? Some of it is running against me in #MN01.
nationalhogfarmer.com/news/hog-price…
Besides price fixing, there's food safety. USDA inspections may have inspired the massive political contributions from the pork industry in Minnesota politics since 2016. Warning: Don't read unless you are vegetarian or keep Kosher!
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
This was in 2015.
We all know that to end run around USDA one need only go to Congress.
Which politicians took money from people and companies named here since then?
newrepublic.com/article/120982…
While you pay more at the grocery store, and are less sure of what it is that you are eating, it sure looks like GOP politicians in Congress have been living "high off the hog"....
opensecrets.org/orgs/national-…
The super rich have been living "high off the hog" for too long. Some of them literally.
Please help me keep the pork packing industry, other special interests and the GOP out of Congress.
Flip #MN01 from red to blue in 2022!
painterforcongress.org

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Mar 23
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.
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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.
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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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