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Segall Demands Explanation of Rogers's 'Toxic' Donation

Josh Segall, candidate for Congress in Alabama’s third district, is today calling on Congressman Mike Rogers to explain his acceptance of a $1,500 donation from the producer of one of the nation’s deadliest poisons.

Montgomery, AL -- Josh Segall, candidate for Congress in Alabama’s third district, is today calling on Congressman Mike Rogers to explain his acceptance of a $1,500 donation from the producer of one of the nation’s deadliest poisons.

Although Rogers’s so-called leadership PAC, American Security, is largely funded by other special interest groups, it did receive one individual contribution: $1,500 from the owner of an Oxford, Alabama company that manufactures one of the deadliest and most controversial pesticides in use today.

This pesticide, Compound 1080, was once banned in the US and is now the subject of a bill before Congress that aims to ban the poison permanently after numerous reports of death and illness. The bill is currently before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture. Mike Rogers is a member of this committee.

“Rogers must level with voters immediately,” said Segall. “He’s taken money from a man who has business before Congress, and he owes the people of our district an answer about how he’s going to vote on this bill.”

Compound 1080 has long been known to be a hazard. Over the past few decades, this pesticide has caused 16 deaths, and the Iraq Study Group’s report on the hunt for Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons shows a container of Compound 1080 (bearing the Oxford, Alabama label) in Iraqi labs.

Segall emphasized that he would strongly support a Compound 1080 ban:...

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