Fellow water warriors, Lynn and Nancy Utesch and Dave Gorski, attended the Wisconsin Factory Farm Summit in Green Bay this weekend.
The some 300 attendees at the conference are working to guarantee the future of clean water in Wisconsin against unanimous Republican Party opposition to this effort.
Lynn Utesch is a candidate for the First Assembly District.
Gorski is a candidate for the 72nd Assembly District.
Both Utesch and Gorski are making the future of clean water, small farming, tourism and recreation the basis of their campaigns.
Said Gorski:
The Wisconsin Factory Farm Summit in Green Bay this weekend was inspiring.
A lot of hope for agriculture in Green Bay and throughout our district.
Small, sustainable farming is the way, and tourism and recreation comes with small farming.
The stakes are high.
We are losing democracy to address vital issues of economic growth and jobs. Ag policy reveals this.
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP, for example, would trump local control, our democracy, already under assault by the state of Wisconsin.I mean, my God, this is our community. If we had a referendum on the proposed Wysocki CAFO in Rome and Saratoga, how do ya think it would come out?
With the proposed TPP, any foreign corporation can come in, buy up local corporate CAFOs composed of less than 640 acres, and we as communities would have no recourse, none, to fight pollution and the many down sides of industrialized Big Ag.
Thank you for fighting with me; thank you frankly for leading the way as protectors of our community. I'm to fight with you, for our community and families.
Waterwarriors salutes Lynn Utesch and Dave Gorski.