Tea Party-Backed Joe Miller Received Subsidies
Alaska Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller received federal farm subsidies for land that the fiscal conservative owned in Kansas in the 1990s.
Miller won the GOP primary with more than $550,000 in support from the Tea Party Express and campaigned in opposition to out-of-control spending by incumbents in Congress, including GOP primary opponent Lisa Murkowski.
The acknowledgment by the Miller campaign that he accepted farm subsidies follows a story by the Alaska Dispatch, which discovered through a Freedom of Information Act request that Miller received more than $7,000 in subsidies from the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1991-1997.
A blog last week reported Miller, an attorney, received subsidies for land in Alaska, a story the campaign called manufactured.
Miller spokesman Randy DeSoto said Tuesday that Miller is not against all federal spending, and some crops on his Kansas land were eligible for aid.
Desoto said none of this has to do with Miller's belief - more than a decade later - that the nation must find ways to address its deficit.
Steve Wackowski, a spokesman for Murkowski, who is mounting a write-in campaign, said Miller should have spoken up and acknowledged the subsidies earlier. Wackowski said it speaks to Miller's character that he did not.
© 2010 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Miller won the GOP primary with more than $550,000 in support from the Tea Party Express and campaigned in opposition to out-of-control spending by incumbents in Congress, including GOP primary opponent Lisa Murkowski.
The acknowledgment by the Miller campaign that he accepted farm subsidies follows a story by the Alaska Dispatch, which discovered through a Freedom of Information Act request that Miller received more than $7,000 in subsidies from the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1991-1997.
A blog last week reported Miller, an attorney, received subsidies for land in Alaska, a story the campaign called manufactured.
Miller spokesman Randy DeSoto said Tuesday that Miller is not against all federal spending, and some crops on his Kansas land were eligible for aid.
Desoto said none of this has to do with Miller's belief - more than a decade later - that the nation must find ways to address its deficit.
Steve Wackowski, a spokesman for Murkowski, who is mounting a write-in campaign, said Miller should have spoken up and acknowledged the subsidies earlier. Wackowski said it speaks to Miller's character that he did not.
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Stop bad-mouthing the Tea Party supported candidates, maybe just maybe we might go back to be the USA again.
Nine out of the top ten welfare states in America are Red States. You people can't make a living on your own without receiving your government checks and federal subsidies, paid for by the rest of us.
Worst thing the Democrats ever did was fight to give all these underperforming Red States electricity back in the 1930's. Seems all they use it for is watching the Fox "News" Propaganda Channel, whining over the Internet Tubes about the evil government, and cooking up their meth.
Stop bad-mouthing the Tea Party supported candidates, maybe just maybe we might go back to be the USA again.
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Of course he did. We all know how to spell Republican. H-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e.