Nunes Chooses Coastal Private Fundraiser over America’s Top Producing Farmers
Over the weekend, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue made a stop in the heart of the Central Valley to field questions from more than 150 San Joaquin Valley dairy farmers and growers at a town hall-style gathering. Perdue was joined by four congressman representing important ag districts from across California — and across the political aisle — including Reps. Jim Costa (D-Fresno), Josh Harder (D-Turlock), Doug LaMalfa (R-Oroville) and TJ Cox (D-Turlock) to discuss “the state of agriculture in the Central Valley.”
But, noticeably absent from the Central Valley town hall Q-A with Ag Secretary Perdue and California’s farmers was one Congressman Devin Nunes…
Instead of meeting with the Central Valley’s hardest workers and the nation’s biggest farm producers, Nunes was on the coast in Pismo Beach holding a private fundraiser at the tony Thousand Hills Ranch that same evening.
As local papers reported, the San Luis Obispo County GOP, the event’s organizers, tried to keep information about the event under wraps, asking those attending to not share its location on social media. This weekend’s dodge by Nunes, follows him recently spending thousands on summer tv ads 17 months before the election, touting to voters his podcast where the media-bashing Congressman is “separating fact from fiction,” and encourages the voters, he chooses to run from, to “logon and join the conversation,” with him…
“When Congressman Nunes isn’t fundraising out of district out of fear of meeting with his voters, he’s avoiding the Central Valley’s farmers and our nation’s biggest ag producers not to mention the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture,” said DCCC Spokesperson, Andy Orellana. “While it’s good to know that Nunes will choose mixing and mingling with donors over meeting dairy farmers and ag producers – having them log on to his podcast might not just be enough to tackle the central issues our farmers are facing.”
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