Bradley Was Paid From Farm Subsidy
A partnership that includes Bill Bradley received $2,150 in farm subsidy payments in 1997 and 1998, a campaign aide said Saturday. As a Democratic senator from New Jersey, Bradley had opposed such payments.
Bradley got $700 from payments to the 250-acre farm in Missouri that he owns with a high school friend.
Campaign spokeswoman Anita Dunn said the farm also received relief payments after 1993 floods. Bradley donated his share to charity, said Dunn, who did not know the amount.
Vice President Al Gore, Bradley’s rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, last week accused Bradley of voting against flood relief. Bradley said Gore distorted his record, and he insisted he eventually voted for the relief package.
Bradley called Gore’s record tainted because he accepted federal subsidy payments for growing tobacco on the Gore family’s Tennessee farm.
Bradley has come under fire in Iowa for not being sympathetic to farm assistance programs.
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