Thursday, September 5, 2019

Bullock releases "Plan for Rural America"

Here's the overview from his website:
You shouldn’t have to leave your home, community, or church just to get by in America. And at a time when President Trump has sought to create divisions in our country, including sowing discord between urban and rural Americans, Steve knows the value of coming together and working towards shared prosperity.
THAT’S WHY STEVE IS PROPOSING A PLAN TO HELP RURAL AMERICA RECOVER AND THRIVE. 
Ensuring everyone has a fair shot is too important to just throw out lofty plans that can’t be implemented. So we will show exactly how Steve plans to get it done, whether it requires legislation or executive action. 
His first priority will be to establish an Office of Rural Affairs to coordinate these initiatives within the White House, reporting directly to the President, to provide leadership and coordinate the development of policies for rural America across executive departments and agencies.
Other candidates may also have rural plans, but I have not seen them promoted in the way Bullock's  is being promoted on his Twitter feed the last day or so, which is what took me over to his webpage.  Among the other images I saw on his Twitter feed, these words superimposed on a short clip depicting an agricultural scape along a river:  "This Is More than Flyover County.  It's Time DC Started Acting Like It." 

 I know Pete Buttigieg has been talking this week about making cows carbon neutral, which is pretty, um, interesting and cool.  See the Tweet here:


Here's a story from Vox on Buttigieg's plan to make the U.S. carbon neutral by the time he's 68 years old.  The subhead for that story is "The South Bend mayor’s new climate change plan sets ambitious targets and includes small towns and rural areas."  So, whereas Bullock is centering "rural"--making it the headline--Buttigieg is doing a good job of talking about rural angles on other issues, e.g., climate change.  

Recall that Hillary Clinton had an extensive rural plan during her 2016 candidacy, but it was little acknowledged in the media and drew little attention, seemingly just sitting there on her web page.  That doesn't give me much hope that Bullock's plan will draw attention, especially since he's hardly a contender for the presidency.  

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