Scott Kleeb on Jobs Democratic Challenger

Johanns left Secretary of Agriculture job & let down farmers

Fight discrimination in the workplace

• Supporting the Employee Free Choice Act.
• Expanding the Family and Medical Leave Act & other measures that support working families.
• Fighting discrimination in the workplace.
• Increasing the minimum wage & indexing it to inflation.
• Supporting tax incentives for small businesses, the best providers of stable, good paying jobs.

Supports Farm Bill, & its nutrition & conservation programs

A: The farm bill that recently passed, that the president vetoed, is a strong step toward changing the way the government supports family farmers. Now the bill, as we all know, is far from perfect, but I strongly supported its long overdue passage, and the needed reforms that it did have in it.

We also forget that only 17% of the Farm Bill deals with farm programs, programs that deal with family farms or deal with farming in general, or livestock, anything specifically to do with farming itself. A much larger part of that is actually in nutrition programs, in school lunch programs, in conservation titles, and energy titles that encourage the development of cellulosic ethanol. We needed reforms to happen across the board, and this was a good first step to making those reforms.

Develop alternative fuels and green-collar industries