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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIdaho Senator pushed harsh immigration bills. Husband loses 80% of income from boycotts from farmers
She's calling it economic terrorism
Idaho State Senator Glenneda Zuiderveld campaigned on "enforcement first" and pushed legislation to crack down on the very immigrant workers that power Idahos dairy industry.
She didn't think the consequences would ever reach her own dinner table.She was wrong.In a massive display of "Market Correction" (or as most of us call it, FAFO), the local dairy farms in her district did something she never expected: they exercised their free-market right to stop funding the people trying to destroy their business.
Glennedas husband, Tom Zuiderveld, was a top salesman for a lube and oil company. His clients? The local dairies. When Glenneda refused to back down on policies that would bankrupt these farms, the dairies fired Tom.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,483 posts)I wonder if that is what the poor call it when the rethugs rig the entire system to ensure the poor both fail in their attempts to get out of poverty, as well as making sure that the poor remain as the cheap labor that the rich need to survive?
You know, like the policies that you are voting for, Senator...
agingdem
(8,948 posts)Last edited Mon May 11, 2026, 08:43 AM - Edit history (1)
who thought deporting brown people taking jobs away from white Christian Americans was a super idea?..the same farmers now going bust because all the seasonal workers tasked with gleaning their fields are in deportation centers or in hiding?..
This is not a FAFO.. the FA implies they had their heads in the sand instead of up Trumps diapered ass when they voted for a revenge driven psychopath because voting for a woman/a black woman was not done.. and bankruptcy/job loss/no healthcare (FO) is what happens when Trump sycophants vote their hate...BOO HOO..
OldBaldy1701E
(11,483 posts)That had better not be all that they suffer.
niyad
(133,815 posts)Joinfortmill
(21,589 posts)DFW
(60,396 posts)In the print version, at least, she doubled down, said she was exactly right, and her husband agreed with her. He sounded like he was perfectly OK with their financial ruin as long as the foreign dairy workers couldn't work in Idaho.
I sincerely hope he doesn't find a second career as a cruise ship captain.
LymphocyteLover
(10,083 posts)Why?
Ray Bruns
(6,673 posts)KS Toronado
(23,816 posts)DFW
(60,396 posts)Buckeyeblue
(6,429 posts)FakeNoose
(42,266 posts)Some seats are going to flip in '26 and '28....