Kerry Flip-flops On Northeast Dairy Compact
Campaigning in the Midwest Kerry tried to distance himself from New England yesterday. The Boston Globe reports Kerry said he no longer supported the Northeast Dairy Compact a program that propped up prices for New England dairy farmers:

”I plead guilty. I did vote for it, because I represented Massachusetts,” Kerry said. ”I was a United States senator, and I was working in a context that we were living in a number of years ago, and that’s the way we saw the world.

”We don’t see the world that way now,” he told the crowd at the Dejno farm. ”I guarantee you that as president, I’m not going to be president of New England, or president of Massachusetts; I’m running to be president of the United States of America. And I’m going to stand up for farmers in Wisconsin and Minnesota and Iowa and other parts of the country just as hard as I did before.”

The Northeast Dairy Compact provided financial support to New England dairy farmers, was strongly opposed in Wisconsin and dairy states elsewhere in the country.

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This is the same guy defending his NOT resigning from the Senate (as did Dole) because he's needed to represent his constituents in MA. Which is it John? RepresentED MA or not? Meanwhile he has missed almost 90% of the votes in the Senate. Typical Kerry.

-phil (worse yet, he told voters in Green Bay he was a Packers fan, the traitor)