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Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack found campaigning in rural Ohio in unofficial capacity

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Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack

As we all know, every vote certainly counts in Ohio. Apparently nobody in the Obama administration is actually working in Washington, they are out campaigning including the Secretary of Agriculture.

Vilsack was spotted in rural Ohio over the weekend out campaigning with former Ohio Director of Agriculture Robert Boggs.

Interestingly enough though, we received no press release or even media advisory. That’s because he didn’t make a formal speech or hold a rally. According to the Lima News, Vilsack said he was doing this on his own time and these were unofficial visits.

It’s obvious to me he was in the area to counter the very successful Romney rally held in western Ohio in early October that was focused around agriculture.

According to the Sidney Daily News Vilsack told a reporter they were traveling western Ohio to share information on “on what Obama programs will mean for Ohio.”

Hmmm….I wonder who picked up the tab for his travels?

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Author: Heather Hetterick

Heather Hetterick has been promoting agriculture from an early age. Growing up on her family’s farm she was actively involved and showed hogs, steers and sheep through 4-H and FFA. She is from Shelby county and her family there raise hogs and dairy cattle, grain farm and run a feed business.

Her responsibilities include reporting for the Ohio Ag Net, Ohio’s Country Journal and ocj.com. She also oversees the companies online entities and each day can be found tweaking the online news site, writing Digital Dale and posting to Facebook and Twitter.

She is a graduate of the Ohio State University, where she was named one of the Top 10 Seniors in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. After college Heather was the Director of Marketing & Education for the Ohio Pork Producers Council. She then went on to work for Clear Channel Radio and Time Warner Cable before joining the Ohio Ag Net & Ohio’s Country Journal.

Heather also blogs about food, frugality and freebies at http://www.heathershelpings.com. She loves to cook, coupon and decorate. She is married to her husband, Zach.

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