Kennedy fundraising email highlights opposition to farm bill

In a fundraising email from last week, Kennedy praises Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn’s blockage of legislation to provide Louisiana farmers with relief from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike:

Conservative Senator Catches Mary Landrieu Playing Election-Year Politics

Senators try to jam through massive spending bills to help them get re-elected, just like Mary Landrieu’s billion-dollar bill, while taxpayers get further and further into debt.

John Kennedy will fight to get our fair share from Washington. We all want to help farmers and those in need. But Mary Landrieu thinks Louisianans can’t tell the difference between spending to help hurting families, and spending designed to help politicians.

Well folks, we do. And so does Conservative Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who caught Mary Landrieu red-handed playing politics with our farmers. Senator Coburn’s staff said Mary’s bill “is about helping Senator Landrieu’s re-election campaign, not Oklahoma farmers. This is not a serious bill. It was introduced at the last minute and has never gone through committee. We call this press release legislation.”

Amen. Politicians like Mary Landrieu are why our nation is so badly in debt and why Washington is broken. John Kennedy is a conservative with a record of results for taxpayers – he’s the kind of leader Louisiana needs now more than ever.