Iowa’s ‘Butter Lady’ Touts Obama’s Rural Agenda
EmailABC News’ Sunlen Miller: The Obama campaign tapped a well-known Iowa personality to tout the Illinois senator’s agenda for rural America: Duffy Lyon, better known as the Butter Lady.
Famous for her 500-pound butter cow which prompted an obligatory visit by nearly every candidate visiting the Iowa state fair, Lyon’s testimony is the sole voice on the new ad.
“You see a lot of manure in our line of work. It’s a lot like politics. You got to know what’s bull and what’s for real,” Lyon says.
Entitled “For Us,” the 60 second radio ad, has Lyon, a dairy cow and beef cattle raiser, baking Obama’s agenda for rural America.
Calling Obama’s rural plan "gutsy," she explained that it "looks out for us, not lobbyists."
Obama laid out his rural policy agenda on a farm in Fairfax, Iowa last Tuesday. The plan supports family farmers, by limiting subsidies to wealthy corporate farmers, and create incentives for conservation and sustainability.
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Obama’s rural plan is a winner. He took the time to sit down and talk with me about how he plans to limit subsidies to wealthy cooperate farmers in order to help little farmers like me. There’s a lot of us around here. By the time he was done, I was convinced that he IS our candidate. I don’t hear that from the other candidates. Obama is for the common folks like me.
Posted by: trish and ted | October 24, 2007, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm