Rep. Nancy Mace Wins Farm Group Endorsement in Republican Primary
2024年4月24日 - 3:28AM
Today, Competitive Markets Action, Inc. (CMA), a
501(c)(4) non-profit based in Washington, D.C., with the mission of
promoting more regenerative and sustainable agriculture, and
competitive markets in the U.S., and defending against attacks on
states’ rights by the federal government, endorsed U.S. Rep.
Nancy Mace, R-S.C., for re-election in the First Congressional
District Republican primary against Catherine Templeton. Earlier
this year Mace was also endorsed by former President Donald J.
Trump who deemed Mace a “strong conservative voice.”
“We are proud to endorse Nancy Mace and applaud her tireless
work for American family farmers, and the great people of the First
District,” said Marty Irby, president and CEO at Competitive
Markets Action. “Mace has been a fierce and brave warrior who
has displayed tremendous leadership and intestinal fortitude in
championing the Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act that
would rein in the corruption within USDA’s scandal-ridden Commodity
Checkoff Programs. American family farmers stand a fighting chance
because of Nancy Mace."
Earlier this year Competitive Markets Action and the
Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) presented their
Competitive Markets Leadership Award to Mace during their Farm Bill
Summit and fly-in on Capitol Hill.
Mace is the lead sponsor of the Opportunities for Fairness
in Farming (OFF) Act, H.R. 1249/S. 557, in the House where she’s
worked in bipartisan fashion alongside Rep. Dina Titus, D-NV, and
Sens. Mike Lee, R-UT, Rand Paul, R-KY, Cory Booker, D-NJ, and
Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, to reform the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s
embattled checkoff programs that have been plagued by unethical and
illegal activities for decades. This measure is backed by more than
200,000 farmers and ranchers across the country and groups like the
FreedomWorks, the American Grassfed Association, Alabama Contract
Poultry Growers Association, Contract Poultry Growers Association
of the Virginias, National Taxpayers Union, the Heritage
Foundation, as well as Reps. Thomas Massie, R-KY, Alex Mooney,
R-WV, Victoria Spartz, R-IN, and Mike Lawler, R-NY.OFF would reform
the checkoff programs by bringing transparency and requiring the
programs be audited for compliance; by prohibiting disparagement of
one product over another and picking winners and losers in the
marketplace; and by prohibiting checkoffs from contracting with
lobbying entities like the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
(NCBA) who lobbied against Country-of-Origin-Labeling (COOL) and
the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) who has been outspoken
against state ballot measures like California’s Prop 12 that
benefit American producers who practice more regenerative and
sustainable agriculture.Mace’s campaign to reform the checkoff
programs has also brought more light to controversy surrounding
President Joe Biden's USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, D-IA, who has
directly benefited from millions of checkoff dollars funneled into
his own personal coffers, and a salary of nearly $1 million per
year from Dairy Management, Inc., following his eight years as
President Barack Obama's USDA Secretary, before being reappointed
to the same post by Biden. Rep. Mace also co-lead a House
Republican sign-on letter alongside Reps. Andrew Garbarino, R-NY,
David Valadao, R-CA, and Michael Waltz, R-FL, against the so-called
Ending Agriculture Trade Suppression (EATS) Act, H.R. 4417, led by
Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-IA, that is designed to nullify state ballot
measures across the country enacted by a direct vote of the people.
Industrial agribusiness interests failed to secure the enactment of
similar legislation led by former Rep. Steve King, R-IA, in the
2018 Farm Bill thanks to the work of competitive markets leaders
and former House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway, R-TX,
who is currently working with the Competitive Markets Groups on the
issue in 2024. Mace also joined in signing a second
letter against the EATS Act led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna,
R-FL earlier this year.In the 117th Congress, Mace also co-led the
Pigs in Gestation Stalls (PIGS) Act, H.R. 7004, that would have
provided more space for breeding sows in pork production facilities
across the U.S., a policy similar to many of the corporate pledges
made by top retailers in the last several years who are working to
eliminate the use of gestation crates in U.S. pork production.
Competitive Markets Action (CMA) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit
based in Washington, D.C., that was formed with the mission of
shaping policy to promote more regenerative and sustainable
agriculture, and competitive markets in the U.S., and to defend
against attacks on states’ rights by the federal government. CMA
works to raise awareness of the harm caused by multinational
conglomerates to the American family farmer, the consumer and our
U.S. economy as a whole in an effort to bring about legislative and
regulatory reforms.
- Rep. Nancy Mace Award Presentation
- Rep. Nancy Mace and CMA President Marty Irby
Marty Irby
Competitive Markets Action
202-821-5686
marty@competitivemarketsaction.org