In other words, these rich fat fucks don’t want anything to interfere with their fine cigars and brandies after dinner with their lobbyist friends, amirite?
U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey joined cigar companies from across the state in Bethlehem on Tuesday in a bid to snuff out a federal Food and Drug Administration effort to regulate large and premium cigars.
Toomey, standing in front of an American flag in Cigars International’s Bethlehem warehouse, said the FDA’s push is a solution in search of a problem.
“Unfortunately, this kind of solution would mean fewer jobs and an economic downturn for this entire industry,” said Toomey, R-Pa. “And we don’t need that.”
He is co-sponsoring a bill that would exclude large and premium cigars from the FDA’s regulation. The bipartisan bill, introduced by Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., is joined by a companion measure in the House co-sponsored by 168 Republicans and 50 Democrats.
