Donald Manzullo: “I was there when the auctioneer's gavel fell and sold half of the family farm of a couple that I represented in Ogle…”

“I was there when the auctioneer's gavel fell and sold half of the family farm of a couple that I represented in Ogle County, Illinois, as their kids sat there and went. Let us not talk about the Bill Gates and the Steve Forbes, let us talk about those people, farm people losing their farms because government wants more money to spend on more programs. It is not Steve Forbes. Let us talk about the Cross family, dealing with the death of the grandmother and then the death of their mother, trying to desperately hang onto the family farm. These are not rich people. They are a small percentage of people, but they are real people with real names and real auction sales that deprive their children of the ability to carry on the family farm. Those are the names.”