Secretary of Agriculture quits to run for Senate
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Comments
By cookiejill on September 21st, 2007 at 9:57 am
Thought you might be interested in the new Secretary's bio...
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=bios_conner_new.xml
What I find interesting...
From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Conner was President of the Corn Refiners Association, Inc., a national trade association representing the corn refining industry.
By Jack on September 21st, 2007 at 8:08 pm
It's policy in the Bush Administration to allow only those who already have worked for the people they're supposed to police, er, restrain from evil, to be hired. Conflict of interest is tantamount, I mean, Standard Operating Procedure. (And it's not like the Clinton administration was much better.)
By Marc R. aka Mental Masala on September 21st, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Thanks for the link cookiejill. Your link seems to be truncated, so I shrunk it using tinyURL: Connor's bio.
For more about Connor, Tom Philpott over at Gristmill dug into his archive for a piece that he wrote a few years ago. It covers corn, ADM, HFCS, price fixing and more.