Carolina Journal Updates on Farmer's Freedom

[GunnyFreedom]

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Carolina Journal Exclusives

NCGA Preview: Week of January 31
Health care, property rights, and charter schools top agenda

By Sara Burrows
January 31, 2011
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UPCOMING BILLS:
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• Rep. Glen Bradley, R-Franklin, plans to file his N.C. Farmer’s Freedom Act on Wednesday or Thursday. The bill basically would exempt North Carolina farmers from new federal regulations created by the Food Safety Modernization Act, S. 510, which was sponsored by U.S. Sen. Richard Burr. Farmers would be exempted from regulations only if their food were produced and sold within the state. The bill now has 21 sponsors. Bradley hopes to have 40 by the time it is filed.



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[aclove]

Glen, I also have a piece about the Farmer's Freedom Act up at Pundit House. You can check it out here:
http://pundithouse.com/2011/01/food-fight-north-carolina-strikes-back/

[GunnyFreedom]

Glen, I also have a piece about the Farmer's Freedom Act up at Pundit House. You can check it out here:
http://pundithouse.com/2011/01/food-fight-north-carolina-strikes-back/

Thank you Adam, sorry I didn't get back to you in time with that background. The article is great!

[aclove]

No sweat, buddy. You're a busy man these days. Glad you liked the column!

I'll most likely be doing a statewide email to the C4L mailing list about your bill. Do you have any preference with regards to timing, or would you like that to go out ASAP?

[GunnyFreedom]

No sweat, buddy. You're a busy man these days. Glad you liked the column!

I'll most likely be doing a statewide email to the C4L mailing list about your bill. Do you have any preference with regards to timing, or would you like that to go out ASAP?

I think the sooner the better, I'll be filing NCFFPA on Wednesday, so that leaves only Tuesday for the message to get out before members see it in their electronic cosponsorship applications, to Thursday after session when cosponsorship is closed.

[aclove]

Yikes. I'll do my best, but unfortunately, C4L (read: Mike Rothfeld) won't forward my emails to the statewide mailing list until the wording meets with their (read: his) satisfaction. Barring a lot of haggling about verbage, it still takes 24-48 hours between my submitting it to them and it actually going out. Like I said, I'll do my best!

[GunnyFreedom]

Yikes. I'll do my best, but unfortunately, C4L (read: Mike Rothfeld) won't forward my emails to the statewide mailing list until the wording meets with their (read: his) satisfaction. Barring a lot of haggling about verbage, it still takes 24-48 hours between my submitting it to them and it actually going out. Like I said, I'll do my best!

It will still need a favorable committee report and to pass the second and third readings.

[dannno]

lol, I read the title as:


Health care, property rights, and charter schools utopian agenda

and almost had a fit

[GunnyFreedom]

Charter schools do outperform the traditional public model, because they are, and have a choice in education. No rigorously Federally regulated curriculum from which you do not deviate, but teachers, students, and parents working together to educate children. More choice will always lead to better performance. That's why I'm (trying to find room to) introduce a School Choice Act.

[TCE]

Charter schools do outperform the traditional public model, because they are, and have a choice in education. No rigorously Federally regulated curriculum from which you do not deviate, but teachers, students, and parents working together to educate children. More choice will always lead to better performance. That's why I'm (trying to find room to) introduce a School Choice Act.

That hasn't been introduced by some other Republican in the legislature? Typically one Republican from a big state's legislature is for school choice. I know here in the mid-western states, they are here in the wilderness, but the bills are introduced. Even if one hasn't, there has to be a more senior member who is for it.

[aclove]

Email went out to C4L state list for NC today. Got 267 petition signatures so far, with more sure to come.

[aclove]

I got a chance to talk about the Farmers' Freedom Act as part of the House Report on Pete Kaliner's show last night, on 1110WBT out of Charlotte. Here's a link to the podcast. My segment starts halfway through the podcast.
http://www.wbt.com/pete/archive/home.aspx?BlogID=1001178&Date=02/02/11

[Hill0046]

Re. interpositon with respect to the farmers freedom act.
Have you run this by an attorney and if so what has he had to say about soverign immunity?

Regards

[libertybrewcity]

Cool! Does the NC House leadership like your bill? And is there a similar one in the senate?

[jacque]

Glen consulted with the Commissioner of Agriculture and several others before filing the bill. If you want to read the entire bill, just click on the name.

North Carolina Farmers Freedom Protection Act was filed Feb 9. Passed after the first reading on Feb 10 and sent to committee.

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=h+65

I am not sure about one in the Senate but Glen was at CPAC this weekend so he will be answering all your questions soon.

[Hill0046]

Yes I did read the bill. I did take a minute and run it by an attorney friend. Not in depth mind you, just a basic short synapsis of the bill to which he replied interposition as written will not work as a deterrent as the feds will claim sovereign immunity. I had no idea what that was so I went here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity
The esq babbled something about changing the thing to a civil tort with a fine and that would work but I was not focused enough at that point to provide reliable info.
Hopefully there is an atty involved that is helping