Nanny state extends to anti-spending group
A classic from the AP's Henry Jackson:
The president of a third party group that's targeting vulnerable Democrats for their support of government spending has herself received thousands of dollars in federal farm subsidies.
Sandra Greiner is the president of the American Future Fund, an organization that has spent more than $5 million on advertisements that target Democrats on a variety of issues, including their support for federal spending.
But Greiner and her family have not shied away from taking federal subsidies for their farm near Keota, in eastern Iowa.
According to a a database maintained by the Environmental Working Group, a not-for-profit that tracks farm subsidies, the Greiner family -- Sandra Greiner, her husband, Terry Greiner, and their three sons -- received more than $935,000 in farm subsidies from 1995 to 2009.