Denise O'Brien's Campaign Offers Up A Lot Of Excuses Why She And Her Husband Starved Cattle To Death In 1987

From reporter Dan Gearino at the Mason City Globe Gazette:

The husband of Democratic secretary of agriculture candidate Denise O'Brien was charged with animal neglect on the couple's family farm almost 20 years ago, according to documents circulated Thursday by the state Republican Party.

O'Brien campaign manager Rob Sand said the disclosure is a desperate and misleading ploy by Republicans.

According to court documents, Larry Harris, O'Brien's husband, was charged with a simple misdemeanor after several cattle in his care were found to have starved to death. Harris paid a Cass County court $319.45 to resolve the matter in October 1987...

Sand said the cattle deaths were because a hired worker responsible for the feeding wasn't doing his job. Sand said the cattle were being cared for on land that wasn't easily accessible from the Harris-O'Brien farm, so Harris depended on the hired worker.

At the time, O'Brien was working away from the farm as director of the Women, Food and Agriculture Network.

"They're dredging up something Denise didn't have anything to do with," Sand said.

He said the timing of the disclosure, less than a week before the election, shows Republicans are unable to win on the issues.

It was the hired hand's fault!!!!

It was on a piece of land not easily accessible from the main farm!!!!

Denise O'Brien was away doing Really Important Work for women!!!!

Republicans are unable to win on the issues!!!!

[It] was an isolated incident that happened two decades ago!!!!

It is a cheap shot from Northey and his Republican cohorts!!!!

I'm 52 years old, and I don't know much about technology!!!! I don't even know how to send a response to an e-mail, that's how technologically deficient I am!!!!

If I saw it, I don’t recall!!!!

I was there to be a rubber stamp!!!! That was my function!!!!

I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication!!!!

It was a botched joke!!!!

I actually voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it!!!!

I made immediate and repeated efforts to save Mary Jo by diving into the strong and murky current but succeeded only in increasing my state of utter exhaustion and alarm!!!!

I did not have sex with that woman!!!!

Bitch set me up!!!!

Jews have bought everybody!!!! J-E-W-S!!!!

Did I win the Lotto????


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