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Sen. Darrel Aubertine -- fighting for farmers?

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Uploaded by on Mar 31, 2009

After claiming that he's restored funding cuts for farmers in New York's new state budget, North Country State Sen. Darrel Aubertine is forced to admit that's not the case.

Aubertine was grilled by the top Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, Sen. Cathy Young of Olean.

Farms suffered a $30 million cut in the bloated, $132 billion budget, which used federal stimulus funds to restore hundreds of other programs, raised taxes by a record amount and increased taxpayer-funded spending a whopping 10%.

Aubertine voted against a Republican amendment to restore all the agriculture funding cuts and create an emergency aid program for struggling dairy farmers.

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  • Another classic example that the NY Senate Democrats have no idea what they're doing.

  • To read about the importance of such funding, in this case specifically about the onion research funding check out "The Florida Onion" 6/2008 and read pages 3, 18.

  • This guy is head of the Ag. Comm in the state?

    He should resign

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