COLUMBIA, Mo — State Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, kicked off a “Keep The Feds Off Our Farms Tour” on Monday to highlight “President Barack Obama’s federal overreach into Missouri farming practices.”
Schaefer will be discussing the EPA’s Waters of the United States rule as well as energy regulations that are harming rural Missouri families and food production.
“With the Obama Administration, it seems they have a rule, regulation or tax for everything we do,” Schaefer said. “That’s especially true for Missouri farmers and ranchers. We’ve seen Obama’s agencies pass rules to regulate our streams and ditches, block children from helping on their family farms, and create energy policies that drive up the cost of food production and harm Missouri’s farm families.”
Schaefer currently practices litigation, environmental, health care, administrative, business and public utilities law at Lathrop & Gage. He formerly served as general counsel and deputy director at the Department of Natural Resources, as special council to the Department of Agriculture, and as a Missouri assistant attorney general and special assistant U.S. attorney general.
“Missourians need an Attorney General who will fight for them, and not sit idly by while the federal government encroaches into our farms, faith and families,” Schaefer said. “My record is clear; I will defend our common sense conservative values and be a champion for the Missouri way of life as our Attorney General.”
Tour stops this week include visits to Louisiana, Taylor, Canton and Boonville. Following Thanksgiving, Schaefer will host events in Lebanon, Mt. Vernon and Columbia with more locations to be announced.
Rachael Herndon was the editor at The Missouri Times and also produced This Week in Missouri Politics, published Missouri Times Magazine, and co-hosted the #MoLeg podcast. She joined The Missouri Times in 2014, returning to political reporting after working as a campaign and legislative staffer.
Rachael studied at the University of Missouri – Columbia. She lives in Jefferson City with her husband, Brandon, and their two children.
