By AP
Bowling Green, KY – Kentucky Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul has called for cutting waste from the federal farm subsidy program. Paul criticized the subsidies Wednesday in an interview with WHAS, saying that the program last year paid over 9 million dollars to 234 dead farmers in the Miami area. Paul also urged that subsidies be stopped to 2,700 farmers who he said make more than $2 million a year.
Paul's Democratic opponent, Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway, has been criticizing Paul for his opposition to the subsidies. In a heavily agricultural state like Kentucky, Paul's stand could alienate farmers, an important voting bloc.