Grab the Tissue Box
Posted: June 12, 2008
When the representatives from the National Corn Growers Association met with officials from the Grocery Manufacturers Association recently to talk about their anti-ethanol campaign, they not only refused to back down, they warned that the attack was just beginning and would intensify.
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa says GMA is starting a new ad campaign that is expected to be a “tearjerker.”
“Kids starving to death, doing an injustice to the environment - it’s going to be an all-out effort because they have to protect their bottomline,” Grassley says. “They have to have an excuse for increasing the price of their food. Forget all these altruistic things. It’s another Adolph Hitler lie, the bigger the lie, the more people are to believe it. And it’s easy to lie when people are ignorant about ethanol.”
Grassley says he understands that former Congressman Cal Dooley, who is CEO of GMA, would like to meet with him. He hopes that meeting will take place because he has plenty to say to him.