BY MARGIE FUSCO
Cambria Co. Staff Correspondent
Arlen Spechter, incumbent
Republican candidate for one of
Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seats,
recently told a farm audience that
he cares about Pennsylvania
agriculture. Spechter spoke at a
chicken barbecue near Davids
ville, in a picnic grove that
overlooked much of Somerset
County. His visit, sponsored by the
Somerset County Republican
Committee, attracted a bipartisan
crowd of 200 farmers from as far
away as Bedford and Blair
Counties.
Noting that Pennsylvania has
the largest rural population of any
state in America, Spechter said he
was concerned about farm issues.
He pointed to his membership on
the agriculture subcommittee of
the Senate appropriations com
mittee, where he plays a role in the
distribution of funds for the farm
ing community.
Spechter cited his own
background as a help in his past.
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“Some people think of me as a
Philadelphia lawyer, which I am,
but I also have had substantial
experience in the problems of the
farming community,” he said.
Spechter explained that he was
born and raised in Kansas and
spent his summers as a teenager
working in the wheat harvest
there, before moving to Penn
sylvania in 1948. In addition to
drawing from his farming
background. Spechter said that he
had formed an agriculture com
mittee, “to advise me and give me
insights on what to do.”
Joseph Johns of Davidsville, a
member of that advisory com
mittee, introduced Spechter by
telling the audience about his
record. Johns noted that Spechter
had provided funding for poultry
farmers hit by avian flu, milk
consumption research, the rural
electrification and telephone
program, brucellosis, gypsy moth
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Johns also said that Spechter has
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laws to make inheritance of family
farms easier and that Spechter is
currently supporting prompt
payments for poultry farmers and
has supported the dairy price
support program. Johns added,
“We’re not totally in favor of a
price support program,” and noted
that the committee had recom
mended support only as a tem
porary measure, to sustain farm
ers until a more market-oriented
program could be developed.
A way from the podium, Spechter
echoed Johns’ concerns about
dairying. “The number one issue is
dairy, and the problem has been to
adequately compensate the
Pennsylvania dairy farmer,”
Spechter said. “I don’t frankly
think we’ve found the answer yet.”
He suggested additional research
to increase consumption of dairy
products as one solution, and
resolving the problem of sub
sidized imports as a second
solution. Spechter noted that he
has helped obtain funding for more
research in dairy product con
sumption through Pennsylvania
State University, and he is working
on the import problem.
Arlen Spechter (right) meets with Chester Erb, a Bedford
County dairy farmer during Chicken barbecue in Oavidsville,
Somerset County.
Senate Bill 1655, sponsored by get it passed.”
Spechter, would allow the federal Spechter also expressed concern
courts to issue an injunction to stop about issues such as foreclosure
any product, including food or and farm land preservation. “I
manufactured goods, from being think it’s essentially going to
imported if it is subsidized or being require a lot of continual care by
dumped. “The bill is now out of the national farming community
committee,” Spechter said, “and and by the farm leadership and by
is coming up on the Senate floor senators like myself,” he con
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