Thread: IA-Agriprocessors lashes back at Culver

Agriprocessors lashes back at Culver
By TONY LEYS • tleys@dmreg.com • August 24, 2008


Leaders of a controversial meatpacking plant cried foul today after Gov. Chet Culver denounced the company, but several political and business experts said the governor’s words were justified.

Culver criticized the Agriprocessors plant in an essay published in the Des Moines Sunday Register. The governor wrote that the Postville company’s owners “have deliberately chosen to take the low road,â€

"The family that owns the company has made tens of thousands of dollars in political donations, mostly to Republicans. However, it also contributed several thousand dollars to Culver’s campaign. The governor’s spokesman said today that the campaign recently donated that money to a shelter for homeless women and children. He said $10,000 the family donated to the 2006 gubernatorial campaign of Lt. Gov. Patty Judge could not be redirected, because that campaign’s fund was closed with a zero balance. "

Slick move, lots of ex friends on the low road after your caught.

Well, Agriprocessors protesting any criticism is like the rusty kettle calling the shiny stainless pot black. Sorry, best I could do in old proverbs of wisdom about kitchenware.

Thank heavens atleast some are finally standing up against this stuff.

Originally Posted by vortex

Well, Agriprocessors protesting any criticism is like the rusty kettle calling the shiny stainless pot black. Sorry, best I could do in old proverbs of wisdom about kitchenware.

I LIKE YOUR ANALOGY. THE "RUSTY KETTLE" THEY ARE. AND A RUSTY KETTLE IS NOT SAFE TO USE AND SHOULD BE DISCARDED.