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Tim Walz on Corporations
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A place for both large corporate farms and family farms
When Walz touted low unemployment, [Republican opponent Scott] Jensen talked about inflation. When Walz said there was a place for both large corporate farms and family farms, Jensen said purchase of agricultural land by foreign corporations would
happen "over my dead body," though state law already bars such purchases. Walz went after Jensen as well, accusing him of seeing only negative statistics and neglecting the positive numbers. "If you're rooting against Minnesota being at the top,
having the strongest state finances and the lowest unemployment … if you're rooting to see failure, that's what you're going to get," Walz said. "But it's not the job we're applying for."
Walz blamed Jensen's no-new-spending rhetoric for the failure of the budget and tax compromise at the Legislature and noted that tax cuts and spending on public schools and public safety were victims of the impasse.
Source: MinnPost.com on 2022 Minnesota Gubernatorial race
, Jul 19, 2023
Rated 86% by UFCW, indicating an anti-management/pro-labor record.
Walz scores 86% by UFCW on labor-management issues
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is North America`s Neighborhood Union--1.3 million members with UFCW locals in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Canada. Our members work in supermarkets, drug stores, retail stores, meatpacking and meat processing plants, food processing plants, and manufacturing workers who make everything from fertilizer to shoes. We number over 60,000 strong with 25,000 workers in chemical production and 20,000 who work in garment and textile industries.
The UFCW House scorecard is based on these key votes: - (+) Extension of Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
- (+) H. Am. 877 Bishop Am. to HR 3094, penalties for lawsuits against unionization
- (+) H. Am. 880 Jackson-Lee Am. to HR 3094, preventing delays in union votes
- (-) Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, freezing public salaries
- (-) Regulation from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, for less corporate regulation
- (-) Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act
- (-) Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act, letting CEOs fire union organizers
Source: UFCW website 12-UFCW-H on May 2, 2012
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