'Farm Girl' Pelosi Pledges Disaster Aid to Farmers

A special Virtual Farmgirl thanks to The Nation, which a few days ago alerted me with this beautifully written headline, “Nancy Pelosi: Farm Girl,” that the glass ceiling busting House speaker was speaking to the National Farmer’s Union in Florida. Farmgirl Nancy earned “wild applause” when she announced that an Iraq War spending bill would include agricultural disaster assistance, according to this piece in Wisconsin Ag Connection. The NFU’s convention theme was “Feeding the World. Fueling the Future” and along those renewable energy lines, the speaker is quoted saying, “Energy independence is a national security issue, it is an environmental issue, and it is an economic issue for our country and for America’s families…It can be an economic solution for America’s farmers.” More on the politics in this Orlando Sentinel piece.