I’ve been traveling all over New Hampshire talking to people, real people, and some of them are farmers. And some of those farmers are sick. I met a woman whose husband has to work off-farm just to keep the lights on because their operation doesn’t pencil out anymore. I met an older gentleman who deserved nothing but years of good work ahead of him. They have cancer instead.
So when I tell you what’s moving through Congress right now, understand I’m not reading about this from a distance. I’m looking at it from their driveways.
A German pharmaceutical company called Bayer, the same company that makes Aspirin and bought Monsanto in 2018, is facing over 60,000 cancer lawsuits from people who used their herbicide Roundup. Rather than face those in court, they spent millions lobbying Congress to bury a provision inside the 2026 Farm Bill that would strip states and local governments of the right to warn you about pesticide risks. Critics called an earlier version of this same provision the “Cancer Gag Act.” They stripped it out once. Bayer put it right back in.
Now here’s where it gets personal for New Hampshire.
John Sununu, my opponent, spent years after leaving the Senate as a policy advisor at a Washington lobbying firm called Akin Gump. Akin Gump is a documented, longtime lobbyist for Bayer and Monsanto. The man asking you to send him back to Washington spent his time away working for the firm that’s been running interference for the company that wants to make it harder for cancer patients to sue.
Nobody asked the farmers what they wanted. No co-ops testified. No grange halls sent delegations. Congress people simply said farmers support this, and the farmers I’ve been sitting with didn’t know a word of it was happening. They are busy helping their friends, fellow farmers.
That’s not representation. That’s a transaction. And New Hampshire deserves better than a senator who already knows where his loyalties with Big Pharma are before he casts a single vote.
