• About Us
  • Activity
  • Advertising
  • Books
  • Business
  • Contact
  • Dashboard
  • EB5
  • Entertainment
  • feedback
  • Forgot Your Password?
  • Government
  • Home
  • Interviews
  • Login
  • Members
  • Meme generator
  • National
  • Nevada
  • Nevada News and Views
  • Newsmax
  • NN&V Ads
  • Opinion
  • Pick a New Password
  • Politics
  • Polls
  • Privacy Policy
  • Profile
  • Recent comments by me
  • Recent comments on my posts
  • Register
  • Submit post
  • Subscribe
  • Subscription Confirmation
  • Survey
  • Survey
  • Terms of Service
  • Today’s Top 10
  • Travel
  • Travel
  • Travel
  • Welcome!
  • Yop Poll Archive
Nevada News and Views
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • More
    • Nevada
    • Opinion
    • Business
    • Travel
    • News
    • Sports
  • Facebook

  • Twitter

  • Pinterest

  • RSS

Politics

Dairy War: Harry Reid’s Sour Milk

Dairy War: Harry Reid’s Sour Milk
Chuck Muth
September 21, 2010

(Assemblyman Ed Goedhart) – By now many of you have heard about the sweetheart deal Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) cut for longtime political contributor Anderson Dairy of Las Vegas in 1999, and the subsequent negative consequences to Nevada’s economy and jobs in the dairy farming and cow milking industries that resulted.

However, you probably haven’t yet heard that Sen. Reid and Anderson Dairy were up to their old tricks once again in 2006. In this instance, Sen. Reid rammed through legislation that targeted a single dairyman, Hein Hettinga, who was daring to sell his milk for 20 cents per gallon cheaper than his competitors.

According to a December 2006 story in the Washington Post – hardly a mouthpiece for conservative thought and opinion – Sen. Reid used the very power and prestige he’s now campaigning on tighten up federal regulations to punish Mr. Hettinga’s business and further undermine the free market in the dairy industry. As a result, Mr. Hettinga, unbelievably, is now being forced to pay competitors such as Anderson Dairy out of the profits from his own business.

“I had an awakening,” the 64-year-old Dutch-born dairyman told the Post after the bill was approved. “It’s not totally free enterprise in the United States.”

Harry Reid’s special interest legislation – passed without a single congressional hearing or a roll call vote on the Senate floor – ended Hettinga’s experiment in free market economics and reshaped the Western milk market while simultaneously using the power of his elected office to benefit a major “soft money” contributor.

And the kicker? Hein Hettinga is a Nevada dairyman who milks cows in Pahrump. But when it came time to expand his operation, instead of doing so in here in Nevada, he opened operations in Texas and New Mexico to get away from Harry Reid’s shenanigans.

Yes, Sen. Reid has truly been a leader in economic development and job creation. Too bad it’s been in states other than the one he represents. Contrary to the myth created by his campaign team and image gurus, nobody has done less for Nevada than Harry Reid.

Unless, of course, you’re a major pay-to-play donor like Anderson Dairy.

(Assemblyman Goedhart manages the Ponderosa Dairy in Amargosa Valley, Nevada, the largest dairy operation in the state)

Prev postNext post

Related Items
Politics
September 21, 2010
Chuck Muth

Related Items

More in Politics

Local and State Leaders Join A’s in Announcing Plan to Bring MLB to Nevada

NN&V StaffMay 24, 2023
Read More

“Ungrateful Miscreants”: Miller, Segerblom Insult Local Small Business Owners

NN&V StaffMay 24, 2023
Read More

GOP Candidate Announces Challenge to Clark County Commissioner Following Outrage Over Shop Owner Comments

NN&V StaffMay 23, 2023
Read More

How the GOP Lost Jacksonville

NN&V StaffMay 18, 2023
Read More

Judge Allows Defamation Lawsuit Against Nevada GOP Executive Director to Proceed

NN&V StaffMay 6, 2023
Read More

Crete: Why I Decided Not to Run for Clark GOP Chair

NN&V StaffMay 3, 2023
Read More
Scroll for more
Tap

Subscribe Free By Email

Looking for the best in breaking news and conservative views? Let Chuck do all the work for you! Subscribe to his FREE "Muth's Truths" e-newsletter.

* indicates required
Nevada News and Views
Nevada News & Views is an educational project of Citizen Outreach Foundation, a non-partisan IRS-approved 501(c)(3) organization. It is not associated or affiliated with any political party or group. Nevada News & Views is accessible by the public at no cost. It funds its operations through tax-deductible contributions from donors and supporters and does not accept government money or grants.

TAGS

Featured Article Nevada Politics business Muth's Truths government Muth’s Truths Opinion Government Obama Ron Knecht News Donald Trump GOP Republicans

Copyright © 2023 Citizen Outreach | Maintained by VirtualAlly

No Man is Above the Law….Except, Apparently, our Secretary of State
Hambrick Will Challenge Goicoechea for Assembly GOP Leadership Slot