Congressman Ridge
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LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.)-Congressman Tom Ridge,
Republican candidate for gover
nor, started early for the 1994 elec
tions by meeting with supporters
on the Lancaster Court House steps
Monday. While Ridge did not
mention agriculture in his prepared
speech, he told Lancaster Farming
privately that he knows agriculture
is Pennsylvania’s number one
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“I know how important it is for
government to work shoulder to
shoulder with those who harvest
the land and contribute to the qual
ity of life, not only in rural com
munities but around Pennsylvani
a,” Ridge said. “It would seem to
me to be the highest priority to get
the folks in Harrisburg to work
with me to improve the relation
ship between state government and
the ag community and the agribusi-
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ness community.
“We need to work for research
on a balanced environmental poli
cy that seems to be tilted against
the farmer and the ag community. I
have always looked to the point
that the stewards of our environ
ment are those who rely on the
environment for their livelihood.
These are the men and women in
agriculture.
“The whole notion that bureau
crats take to the farming communi-
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ty that somehow they are adverse
to the long term interest to preserve
the environment, gets them
(bureaucrats) off on the wrong
fool. Nationally, I have tried to
bring some balance on some wet
lands legislation. We need wet
lands, but we also need to under
stand that private properly means
more in this country than it does in
any other nation in the world.
“Wetlands are an environmental
issue, yes, but 80 to 85 percent of
wetlands are on private properly
and the Constitution says there
shall be no public taking of private
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property unless there is just com
pensation. So the approach I bring
to the issue of environment and
agriculture is that we need an end
less search to bring some balance
to it,“ he said.
Ridge represents Erie and its
surrounding communities in the
U.S. House of Representatives. He
was bom in Pittsburgh Steel Valley
community of Munhall in 1945. He
is currently serving his sixth two
year term in the U. S. House but has
announced he will not seek reelec
lion to this post. Ridge and his wife
Michele have two young children,
Lesley, age 6 and Tommy, age 5.
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