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Senator Lindsey Graham Addresses Questions from National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

81 views · Published 24 August 2015 · 1:36 · Indexed 25 October 2026

Channel: RFD-TV · 2015 · Entertainment

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Bob Kolling, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association:

Q: I'm Bob Kolling, I work with the Rural Electric Cooperative CEO GM down here, and the lower income part of the state. Will you continue to support the rural utility services, and then maintain the low-interest financing for the electric services that is affordable for the people in Iowa and around this country?

A: Senator Lindsey Graham: "Just ask the rural co-ops in South Carolina about Lindsey Graham. It's the 75th anniversary of rural co-ops.  At the end of the day, it's allowed rural America affordable power to grow our economy. So not one default. The American taxpayer has been well served. Rural America has been well served. Even though as 2015, to think that investor  on utilities will go to the places that you have in Iowa, and I have in South Carolina, just not going to happen. I believe in rural co-ops deeply. I literally was their lawyer in my home county. I understand the issues. There was a move by some people running for president to eliminate this because it's not the proper role of government. Let me tell you the proper role of government. It's to help its people. To lend money to people who pay it back. To develop rural America, that would never get developed based on an investor-owned model, in the utility area and the telephone area. Look how life has changed in the last 75 years. Many of you here, parents and grandparents, grew up without electricity. The rural co-ops are as important today as they were in the past because rural America is going to get left behind if we don't nurture it."

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