POLITICAL: Kagan the corporatist lawyer

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Besides supporting Monsanto, Kagan served on an advisory board at Goldman Sachs.

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US Solicitor General Elena Kagan, President Obama's pick for the Supreme Court,

is the most recent in a long line of pro-biotech

Obama appointees who include USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, National Institute of

Food and Agriculture director Beachy, FDA

senior adviser on food safety , USTR Agricultural Negotiator Islam

Siddiqui, and USAID director Rajiv Shah.

As Solicitor General, Kagan submitted a friend of the court brief to the Supreme

Court in favor of Monsanto's appeal in Monsanto v.

Geertson Seed Farms.

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A great reason to call your congressional rep and tell them to vote AGAINST

KAGAN or other corporate shill nominees. We've seen the

damage already inflicted by the corporate Supreme Court already. Want ore?

Congressional Switchboard number is 202-224-3121

Dear editor,

Elena Kagan is yet another corporatist lawyer of the same stripe as those

installed onto the Supreme Court during the Bush

administration. If confirmed, she can be trusted to further extend corporate

America 's grip on all three branches of the federal

government.

As proof of this, you need look no further than Ms. Kagan's work as the U.S.

Solicitor General. Ms. Kagan's office submitted a

friend of the court brief arguing in favor of arguing in favor of the Monsanto

Corporation's appeal in Monsanto v. Geertson Seed

Farms, said appeal being Monsanto's attempt to get Supreme Court approval for

release of Monsanto's genetically engineered alfalfa.

This move by Solicitor General Kagan was in spite of well-informed and

principled opposition from consumers and family farmers, and

in spite of the fact that the USDA never did a proper Environmental Impact

Statement on Monsanto's product.

We must find a Senator or Senators who will be willing to raise this issue

during Kagan's confirmation hearings, and who will have

the guts to generate a grassroots and inside-the-Beltway firestorm that will

derail Kagan's confirmation. Tom Harkin of Iowa is a

possibility. Others might be Russ Feingold of Wisconsin or Bernie of

Vermont. Call them up. Ask them to stop Kagan's

confirmation and insist on Warren or Sheila Bair as the next nominee.

They're the two people who tried hardest to warn

everyone about the financial sector meltdown before it happened, and got nothing

but scorn for their efforts. With Warren or Bair as

the nominee, let ANY senator try to badmouth them for sticking up for the rest

of us, and then see the effect that it has on their

political careers.

It's a long shot, but asking Washington to do something that will restore

government Of the People, By the People and For the People

most always is. It's still worth trying.

Bosold

202 N. 5th St .

Fairfield , IA 52556

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