Colicchio campaigns against Cotton in Arkansas
October 02, 2014 | 08:59 PM
New York chef Tom Colicchio on Wednesday launched a campaign against Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who is running against Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Mark Pryor, D-Ark.
Colicchio, a member of Farm Policy Action, said on MSNBC’s “All In” with Chris Hayes that people should not vote for Cotton, saying that Cotton opposed the food stamp program and is making misleading statements in advertising that it was President Barack Obama who put food stamps and farm subsidies in one bill, when the two programs had been part of the same bill for decades.
Earlier, Food Policy Action had announced it is engaged in a $1 million effort “to educate the public on how their elected officials vote on good food policy.”
The group has said its No. 1 target is Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Fla., who made food stamps a target in the farm bill, “but we are working — through a wide variety of tools — to educate voters all over the country, including Arkansas,” Claire Benjamin, its executive director, said today.
Asked about her group’s donors, Benjamin said, “Food Policy Action is a 501(c)4 organization, and it is operating under the same rules as all other (c)4 organizations.”
Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook chairs the Food Policy Action board.
▪ MSNBC ‘All In’ — ‘Top Chef’ Tom Colicchio calls out GOP’s Tom Cotton
▪ Food Policy Action
Colicchio, a member of Farm Policy Action, said on MSNBC’s “All In” with Chris Hayes that people should not vote for Cotton, saying that Cotton opposed the food stamp program and is making misleading statements in advertising that it was President Barack Obama who put food stamps and farm subsidies in one bill, when the two programs had been part of the same bill for decades.
Earlier, Food Policy Action had announced it is engaged in a $1 million effort “to educate the public on how their elected officials vote on good food policy.”
The group has said its No. 1 target is Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Fla., who made food stamps a target in the farm bill, “but we are working — through a wide variety of tools — to educate voters all over the country, including Arkansas,” Claire Benjamin, its executive director, said today.
Asked about her group’s donors, Benjamin said, “Food Policy Action is a 501(c)4 organization, and it is operating under the same rules as all other (c)4 organizations.”
Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook chairs the Food Policy Action board.
▪ MSNBC ‘All In’ — ‘Top Chef’ Tom Colicchio calls out GOP’s Tom Cotton
▪ Food Policy Action
