What do we know about Rep. Martha Fudge?

What I do know is that she represents a gerrymandered mostly black district in Cleveland. She is supposed or said to be a fierce advocate for food and nutrition programs, not surprising because the SNAP program, insufficient though it undoubtedly is, is the only thing which is preventing outright starvation in impoverished areas.

She campaigned to be named Secretary of Agriculture and has been nominated for another cabinet position, Health and Human Services, do I have that right? instead, or as a consolation prize. Or, in some accounts, as a way to get her out of Nancy Pelosi's hair.

Might any Midwesterners here know more about her? Will someone be appointed to fill her House seat? Can she be confirmed by a thirsting for revenge, anxious to show how tough we are Republican Senate? And, why did she want to be ag secretary? The reasons she gave don't make much sense. Half the ag budget or not, Congress appropriates finite amounts of money for various programs, and those amounts are all that the Secretary gets to spend.

Howie Klein, of Down With Tyranny, hates her guts, but Howie drank the Russians Under The Bed cool aide, so I take his opinions with a few pounds of salt these days. If Howie is right that nobody likes her, and I have no idea if that is true or not, maybe the cabinet followed by a university chair is the only avenue of advancement open for her.

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Lily O Lady's picture

no opinion about her, but this sounds suspiciously like the “nobody likes Bernie” program to neutralize her,

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

I think she was being touted by Rep. Clyburne for the Ag job. Nina Turner has filed, or soon will file to run for Fudge's seat, before Fudge has even been confirmed, which seems a bit odd. Fudge is surely popular in her own district, if nowhere else, and she must have allies one would not want to disrespect.

I would like to see someone not beholden to agribiz have that position, unlike Mr. Monsanto, the former and now future secretary, all the better if that person is non white with some significant ag experience.

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Mary Bennett