Senator Chuck Grassley Exposes ‘Smear’ Campaign on Food and Fuel

05/16/08 - On the Senate floor yesterday, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) expressed outrage over the orchestrated anti-biofuels campaign. “It turns out that a $300,000, six-month retainer of a beltway public relations firm is behind the smear campaign, hired by the Grocer Manufacturers Association,” said Senator Grassley.

“They’ve outlined their strategy of using environmental, hunger and food aid groups to demonstrate their contrived ‘crises’. I think it is important for policy-makers and the American people to know who’s behind this effort.”

Senator Grassley concluded his lengthy statement with, “It’s time we clear the air, look at the facts, and recognize once again that everything about our domestic renewable fuels industry is good, good, good.”

 

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