Stenholm at the WPPC

Charlie Stenholm is now a senior policy advisor for Olsson, Frank and Weeda P.C., and not running herd over the House Agriculture Committee as he probably should be. He doesn't seem to hold a bitter grudge over the redrawing of his district by Republicans that led to his loss in 2004 to Republican Randy Neugebauer. After all, politics is politics, it gets hot in the kitchen, and Republicans did it the old fashioned way-- they (Karl Rove and John DeLay) earned it. During his address at a grassroots seminar this afternoon at the United Public Policy Conference, he said something like Yogi Berra would say, a Yogism. "Forgive and forget, but always remember."

Stenholm was great at dissecting the current farm bill dynamics and had words of praise for the current House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson. Here is the audio link of the talk.