GUEST BLOGGER: A Letter Sent To Our Representatives and Senators By My Girlfriend

Please do everything in your power to defeat the King amendment to the Farm Bill. This amendment is an attack on democracy and threatens to undermine Americans' confidence in their ability to have any meaningful input on the laws under which they live. As just one example, in 2008, according to Wikipedia, more than 8 million Californians (63% of voters) approved Proposition 2, which confers some meager protections on farm animals. By contrast, there are only some 3 million people in Iowa, of whom only 200,000 (53%) voted for Mr. King. And he has the power to set farm policy for the United States? By attaching an odious amendment to must-pass legislation, Mr. King seeks to get by trickery what he could never achieve by legitimate means. It is as much to keep the faith with American voters as to protect farm animals that we must defeat Mr. King's noxious, antidemocratic amendment. Better no farm bill at all than one that spits in the face of the people of California and other states and rewards the bullying tactics of a single, out-of-step individual.