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"The only thing worse than work is not having any. Ask anyone unemployed."
— Pat Curtis
"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."
— Galileo
One evening while night fishing on a large reservoir, I was looking up and day dreaming (I guess it would be night dreaming). I was watching the stars with unfocused eyes then I began to focus on the moon. Right then a new bit of advice for my two boys came to me that I am sure God put there.
"Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you will still be among the stars."
As they are only 4 and 7, I am sure they still don't understand the importance but as they strive to achieve goals we help them set for themselves, I am sure they will understand it in due time. Thanks for posting such wonderful quotes and advice.
— Shawn Buckendahl
Why is it, that when I give to someone less fortunate than myself, I feel as though I'm the one on the receiving end?
— John Coonis
One evening while night fishing on a large reservoir, I was looking up and day dreaming (I guess it would be night dreaming). I was watching the stars with unfocused eyes then I began to focus on the moon. Right then a new bit of advice for my two boys came to me that I am sure God put there.
"Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you will still be among the stars."
As they are only 4 and 7, I am sure they still don't understand the importance but as they strive to achieve goals we help them set for themselves, I am sure they will understand it in due time.
Thanks for posting such wonderful quotes and advice.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
— Mark Knickerbocker
Look back with Forgivness, forward with Faith, down with Compassion, and up with Gratitude.
— Mike Tooke
Humans are "Creatures of Habit". If you practice safety and good professionalism, it will become habit. If you're careless and cut corners, this will also become habit.
— Dave Cameron
"The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time"
—Willie Tyler
Multiwire Branch Circuits
"When the neutral conductor of a 3-wire multiwire branch circuit is open, the circuit transforms from two 120 volt circuits to one 240 volt circuit. The result is that the greatest damage resulting from overvoltage will occur to the most expensive appliance connected to either circuit."
—Mike Holt
My father always said "If one does not plan to succeed, one plans to fail." "If you have your sight, you are blessed. If you have insight, you are a thousand times blessed."
"Most of us will never do great things, but we can do small things in a great way."
And as David Brinkley and Chet Huntley used to sign off their news broadcast with "Thank You for your time, this time, until next time"
Keep up your good work Mike, God Bless....
—Angel Reyes
Quote from my grandfather Papa Jake, "Don't get into a pissing contest with a skunk."
—Adam Corbin
"Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practice."
—Karen Cheney
"I won't lie to you but I may give you bad information."
—Bo Sullivan
"A $300 picture tube will always blow first and protect a ten cent fuse."
"My father always told me to always say God bless you, and there ain't no atheist in foxholes!"
"Whether you think you can, or think you can't you're right!"
—Robert Smith
"Their are bold electricians and old electricians, but their are no old bold electricians."
—Jeff Busch,Brainerd
If a man is alone in the forest without his wife, is it his fault that his wife is having a bad day? Mike Holt's Wife Comment - "Of course it's his fault. He probably didn't finish what he was suppose to do before he went into the woods, and the wife had to do it herself."
—Brooke Stuffer, NECA Codes and Standards.
"You can take a hand out of the shop... but you can't take the shop out of the hand."
"You don't know what you know ...until you know what you don't know."
—John Landry
"If you can't say what you mean, you can never mean what you say"
—Al Bruning
From Mike Holt's Pastor
The world needs individuals who cannot be bought; whose word is their bond; who put character above wealth. People need to see godly men and women who are larger than their vocations; People who do not hesitate to walk by faith; who will not lose their individuality in a crowd. We should be the kind of believers that will be honest in small things as in great things; who will make no compromise with wrong; whose ambitions are not confined to selfish desires. Let's not be that kind of person that believes that shrewdness, cunning, and hardheadedness are the qualities for success. Do not be ashamed or afraid to stand for the truth when it is unpopular. When necessary be quick to say "no" with emphasis, although all the rest of the world says "yes".
Before Thomas Edison was successful in sustaining light from electricity, he had to try 2,386 times. A friend said to him, "Didn't you feel like a failure, failing 2,386 times?" His reply," Each time something didn't work, I knew I was one step closer to success." This makes the difference between those who give up and those who keep trying, winners don't consider unsuccessful attempts failures, they consider them one step closer to the solution.
—Belynda Holt (my daughter)
My dad years ago said: "Wnenever you pray for rain, you must expect a little mud."
—John Reseter
There is great power in solving problems with the "mind over matter" approach. "If you don't mind, it don't matter!"
—Darell Outhier
Our minds are like a parachute, they only work if there open!
—Barry L. Shirk
After having been involved in troubleshooting electrical systems for over 35 years, a quotation we use frequently is: "We don't seem to understand all we know about this."
—Gary Hayes
Buckeroo Banzai says: "Remember, wherever you go . . . there you are."
—Joe Salimando
"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice!!"
—Jim & Nancy Goshey
"Daddy, look!" cried my daughter Darla, pointing to a hawk soaring through the air. "Uh huh," I murmured, driving, lost in thought about the tight schedule of my day. Disappointment filled her face. "What's the matter, Sweetheart?" I asked. "Nothing," my seven-year-old said. Dinners baths and phone calls filled the hours until bedtime. "
Come on, Darla, time for bed!" She raced past me up the stairs. Tired, I kissed her on the cheek, said prayers and tucked her in. "Daddy, I forgot to give you something!" My patience was gone. "Give it to me in the morning," I said, but she shook her head. "You won't have time in the morning!" "I'll take time," I answered defensively. (Sometimes no matter how hard I tried; time flowed through my fingers like sand in an hourglass, never enough. Not enough time for her, for my wife, and definitely not enough time for myself.) She wasn't ready to give up yet. Darla wrinkled her freckled little nose in anger and swiped away her chestnut brown hair. "No, you won't! It will be just like today when I told you to look at the hawk. You didn't even listen to what I said."
I was too weary to argue; she hit too close to the truth. "Good night!" I shut her door with a resounding thud. Later as I thought about how little time we really had until she was grown and gone. My wife asked, "Why so glum?" I told her. "Maybe she's not asleep yet. Why don't you check," she said with all the authority of a parent in the right? I followed his advice, wishing it were my idea.
I cracked open her door and in her hand I could see the remains of a crumpled paper. Slowly I opened her palm to see what the item of our disagreement had been. Tears filled my eyes. She had torn into small pieces a big red heart with a poem she had written titled, "Why I Love My Daddy!" I carefully removed the tattered pieces. The words were an arrow straight to the heart.
Mike Holt's Comment - Please take time to love your children.
"Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot."
—Doug Strang
"Plan your work then work your plan. "
—Douglas R Metzger
Patrick Smith would always say, when appropriate at weekly planning meetings, "if you don't know where you're going any road will get you there." That says it all.
—Tony Gervasio
"Don't shoot the wounded you maybe one someday! "
—Bill Roni
A "goal" is a dream with a date on it. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
—Ian Butcher
I've always said, "aesthetics are 90 percent of the job".
—Mark V. Randazzo
"Good judgement comes from experience. Unfortunately, experience comes from bad judgement. "
My motto has always been "If you think education is expensive...try ignorance."
Ray C. Mullin
Knowledge is power.
—Paul Keller
"If the world were a perfect place, half of us would be unemployed. "
—John Landry
"It is better to be careful 100 times than to get killed once."
—Larry Smith
My dad would often look at a run of poorly fabricated conduit or equipment that had been installed crooked or out of plumb and reflect upon the unknown workman's craftsmanship with the statement: when you're good you're good; when you're not, it shows.
—Mike Barker
"Obstacles are those frightful things we see when we take our eyes of our goals."
—Henry Ford (Thanks Lyndall Briggs)
— Drew Marold (Thanks Geoff
— Ali Adams (Thanks Ali)
—B. Gracian (Thanks Sue Holder)
"Cherish your own vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."
— Napoleon Hill (Thanks John Acland)
"The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for existence against the winds and rains and the scorching Sun."
— Napoleon Hill (Thanks
Lyndall Briggs)
"The one thing worse than training your people and losing them is not training them and keeping them."
—Valerie Johnson/Jerry McGarry
It is ok to work hard and sometimes work long hours, but focus on one important issue, balance. If you focus on balancing your life, you will have more quality time with your family and friends and probably get more work completed. Remember, your family, job, friends, home, education are all important, focus on balance!!!
— Hank Arimas
"Show me a man that didn't learn something today,and I'll show you a man that didn't "
"Show me a man that didn't make a mistake today and I'll show you a man that did nothing today"
I don't know if this is an result or not but I love it: "If you shoot your self in the foot, don't complain about the limp!"
—John Flanders Sr.
Am certain it was Teddy Roosevelt who said something to the effect " No advice is worthless; Hell, even a clock that does'nt work is right twice a day."
— Tom Howe
" Practice makes Permanent......not Perfect..."
— Bill Paletski
"Faith is like electricity, you can't see it, but you can see the light."
— Brad Rinehart
It is usually best to "Work as hard at spending your money - as you do making it."
— William Svensson
"When I was younger and knew everything, I questioned little, but now that I am older and know more, I know how much I do not know and I find myself unable to accept things without questions."
—W.L. Mostia
—W.L. Mostia
"No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid." Unknown
"An expert is someone that know more and more about less and less."
— N. Buttler
"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
—T. Carlyle
"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
— S. Maugham
"Mediocrity is merit to the mediocre."
—J. Joubert
"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he is always has good company."
—C.E. Hughes
"Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you."
—R.W. Emerson
"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. All sin is easy after that."
—J. Bailey
"The irony of common sense is that it's not all that common."
— Mark Twain (contributed by Chas Thomas)
"Be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger."
—Stephen A. Watkins
THE ALPHABET OF DECISION MAKING, By Mike Holt, www.mikeholt.com
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Peter's Laws
—David C. Moody
"Character is doing whats right when nobody is looking".
— GraysRoot3@---.com
"There are no stupid questions if they prevent stupid mistakes."
— Tim LaLonde
"If you want to understand, no explanation is necessary. However, if you don't want to understand, no explanation will suffice."
—Billy <bhammers@---.net>
" By the work one knows the worker."
" The one who always throws the wood on the fire is not the one who chopped it."
—Thomas Mike
"This alternating current thing is just a fad. It is much too dangerous for general use."
—Thomas Alva Edison (contributed by Thomas D. Horne)
" Strength isn't being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long way until you can stand up ... and then be willing to do it all over again."
" You can only teach someone, as much as they are willing to learn."
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At the time, Pyongyang surprised just about everyone by actually admitting its failure, a departure from previous efforts to project success at all costs.
But this time, they've succeeded.
No one is laughing now.
"The world is not falling apart, like some would say, but at the same time this is not a joke. There was a lot of pre-media coverage that said that North Korea was not good at missile technology and were sort of ridiculing them," said Philip Yun, executive director of the Ploughshare Fund and a former adviser to the U.S. government.
"Are we that much less secure right now?" he asked. "Marginally, but at the same time, this is something that we have to worry about."
What we know is that just before 10 a.m. local time, North Korea launched the long-range Unha-3 rocket carrying "the second version of satellite Kwangmyongsong-3" from the Sohae Space Center in Cholsan County in the country's west.
It soared over Okinawa, dropping debris into the sea off the Korean Peninsula, the East China Sea and waters near the Philippines, according to the Japanese government who slammed the launch as "unacceptable."
"The success of the launch -- which most analysts assume is a clandestine missile test -- brings North Korea one step closer to demonstrating a viable and reliable long-range delivery vehicle for a nuclear warhead," said Benjamin Habib, lecturer in Politics and International Relations School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University.
"If the missile technology is mastered, the last technical hurdle remaining is miniaturization of a nuclear warhead that can be deployed on the Unha-3 rocket."
Yun says that's still some way off.
"There's still a lot of work that needs to be done if they're actually going to mount a nuclear device or a weapon on a rocket," he said.
"The good news is we have a fair amount of time. The bad news is that if we're not proactive, and if we don't figure out a way to curtail North Korea's actions, they're going to continue to develop and learn more and over the long term we're going to have to deal with it in a much more difficult situation," he said.
In the short term, one analyst said that Wednesday's successful test was likely to encourage Pyongyang to attempt another nuclear test.
"We don't know if the one in 2009 was a nuclear device rather than a weapon itself. They might need additional refinement and testing of a weaponised as well as a miniaturized version that can fit on a warhead," said Bruce Klingner, Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation.
"More concerning would be an explosion that used a uranium-based warhead because the plutonium program is largely capped.
"We don't think they have any more available plutonium but the uranium path is really wide open. So if they have a uranium-based explosion, that will cause a great deal of concern in the U.S. and its allies that there is an uncapped nuclear weapons program," he said.
The missile that North Korea fired Wednesday appeared to be a four-stage rocket based on old Soviet technology, much less advanced than the rockets being used across the border in China, said Homer Hickam, a former NASA engineer and the author of "Rocket Boys."
"What the North Koreas have done is taken the technology the Russians developed 50 years ago and upgraded it a little bit and they're trying to use that old technology to cause a splash in the international scene and to get paid attention to," he said.
It seems to have worked.
International condemnation has been building since the launch, which came just days after North Korea admitted that technical problems could cause a delay. Multiple theories have been given for the launch's timing, but most analysts agree that a combination of domestic and international pressures and priorities came into play.
After the humiliation of the failed April launch, leader Kim Jong Un was desperate to assert his leadership credentials, some analysts say. A rocket launch was also seen as a fitting tribute to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of his father, former leader Kim Jong Il.
Analysts have also pointed to the curious timing of the launch which came just days before national elections in Japan and South Korea, where the candidates' stance on North Korea is dominating debate in the final days of campaigning.
Chung Min Lee, Professor of International Relations, Yonsei University, says the launch was also designed to send a message to the United States and China. "Kim Jong Un has told President Obama and Xi Jinping 'I am not going to do business as usual.' I'll go down this particular path, come what may. This sends a very negative signal and puts the Chinese into a box. Xi Jinping must react either way. I believe that the Chinese will be a lot stronger on North Korea this time than on any other previous occasions," he said.
It's not a view shared by Dean Cheng, research fellow in Chinese Political and Security Affairs at The Heritage Foundation.
"Frankly, I don't expect very much from Xi," he said. "This new Chinese leadership looks to be extraordinarily weak in part because of the seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee, five of them will have to retire by 2017 which means that the jockeying is already underway for the next succession."
He said the government is likely to take a "wait-and-see" attitude while the rest of the international community seeks to exert pressure on North Korea through the United Nations Security Council.
"If North Korea develops longer range ballistic missiles, China doesn't think that they'll be aimed at Beijing. So from China's perspective it has very little interest or need to come down very hard on North Korea until the U.S., Japan and South Korea make it clear to China that allowing North Korea to do this is going to be more costly than cracking down on them," Cheng said.
In a statement Wednesday, China's foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei "expressed regret" about the launch.
"China has always insisted on bringing peace and stability to the Korean Peninsula through multilateral dialogue. We hope relevant parties stay calm in order to maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula," he said.
China has traditionally been a stumbling block in efforts by the international community to pressure North Korea with sanctions imposed through the U.N. Security Council, Klingner said.
"When the U.S. and South Korea went to the U.N. working group after the April launch with a proposed 40 additional entities, China rejected all but three," he said.
He added that the U.S.'s ability to convince Beijing to back its efforts on North Korea will be a real test of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, and the Obama adminstration's policy toward China.

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We are nearing the 40th anniversary of the famous student uprising in France. In the heart of Paris' student quarter, on Rue Saint Jacques, the city is displaying a collection of excellent photographs of the May 1968 events — students constructing barricades from burned-out cars, pulling up cubes of pavement with which to do battle against the police, and so forth. The photos are accompanied by short captions which generally express sympathy and affection for the students.
But why were they fighting in the streets? Unlike the U.S., France was not bogged down in a controversial war. Moreover, the government of Charles de Gaulle had brought stability and prosperity to France after three decades of misfortune and worse.
Part of the answer lies in French tradition: the students were acting as their ancestors had done — repeatedly. Moreover, there was a sense that the de Gaulle government was past its sell-by date. As David Frum shows in How We Got Here: The 70s, the World War II generation of leaders quickly exited the stage in most key countries during the early 1960s, usually to be replaced by substantially younger leaders (think of Eisenhower and Kennedy). But de Gaulle had removed himself from the political scene shortly after the war, waiting for the nation to turn to him in desperation. Since this didn't happen until 1958, he re-entered the scene around the time that his contemporaries elsewhere were departing. By 1968, he must have seemed like a dinosaur to student activiists.
The students also had legitimate grievances. De Gaulle had reformed much, but not the university system. Nanterre where the trouble began was, in the words of Alistair Horne author of the excellent Seven Ages of Paris, "a new particularly drab suburban campus of graffiti-covered concrete surrounded by mud." Designed to deal with the overflow at the Sorbonne, it had 12,000 students, many more than it could adequately accommodate, and only 240 professors. Students often waited more than an hour to be served food, leaving "plenty of time for revolutionary chat."
The Sorbonne wasn't much better. By 1968, it had 130,000 students and suffered from "overcrowding in lecture halls, mandarinisme on the part of the teachers, a total lack of communication between them and their pupils, over-centralization, excessive bureaucracy, the fossilization of the syllabus and the tyranny of endless examinations."
So the students had a case for protesting in favor of university reform; what they lacked was a case for attempting to bring about the violent overthrow of the French government.
Yet it was natural that over-excited French 20 year olds would infer the second case from the first, especially after the French police overreacted to initial provocation. What seems inexcusable is the way their elders — professors and intellectuals — egged them on. Horne notes, for example, that chemistry professors showed students how to make Molotov cocktails. And then there was Jean-Paul Sartre, taking the wrong line as usual, playing the role of "professor of revolution." How fitting that an essentially frivolous philosopher would be so closely associated with an essentially frivolous revolution, remembered for its Sartresque slogan "I take my desires for reality because I believe in the reality of my desires."
Fortunately, the French working class showed better judgment than French intellectuals. Striking workers occupied the huge Renault plant, but refused to join forces with the students. And the giant CGT ordered that there be no interuption of electricity service. These develoments bought an unusually hesitant de Gaulle the time he needed to get back finally in the saddle. As Raymond Aron put it, "one speech from an old man of 78 and the people of France rediscovered the sense of reality, petrol pumps and holidays."
What is the legacy of May 1968? Perhaps it's that the French have not lost that sense of reality. Nothing like these events has happened since. 40 years is a long time for the French to go without a revolt or a war.
Recently, of course, France has experienced rioting, so a new revolt may be brewing. However, this would be a revolt of a religious/ethnic minority — outsiders, in effect. May 1968 may have marked the final installment in an almost 200 year-old French tradition of Gallic street fighting. That's something to celebrate.


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"The Crazies," a remake of the 1973 George A. Romero original, walks a tight line between B-movie fun and jump-in-your-seat thrills, taking the audience on a ride that has you laughing, cheering, yelping and playing peek-a-boo with the screen, all in one deliriously exhilarating breath.
Director Breck Eisner, redeeming himself from the epic fail of "Sahara," begins with a picture of the easy life in Ogden Marsh, a hayseed of a town where high school baseball games and gossip are the big news. That is, until the town drunk walks onto the baseball field with a shotgun in the middle of a game, forcing Sheriff David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant, turning in another great genre performance on the heels of last year's "The Perfect Getaway") to shoot him dead.
Before you can say "MadCowSwineFluAnthrax," the sleepy town's morgue is stacked with bodies as an unnamed malady spreads. Soon the entire town is rounded up under military quarantine, leaving Dutton, his doctor wife Judy (the always impressive Radha Mitchell), side-kick deputy Russell (a noteworthy and memorable Joe Anderson) and Judy's assistant Becca (in-training It Girl Danielle Panabaker) in a fight for their lives against trigger happy U.S. soldiers and townspeople who have turned into Crazies.
The truth is, this movie could have been just another schlocky genre piece. But thanks to Eisner's ability to turn everything from an unmanned bone saw to a passing helicopter into a weapon of mass destruction, and paired with exceptional performances, anchored by Olyphant's charisma and pathos, it becomes a cathartic journey through terror that, for a glorious 101 minutes, has you forgetting about the real scariness that exists in the world. Even though you may never trust the drive-thru car wash again, what's really insane is just how much fun "The Crazies" is.
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Risking trade war, administration sides with Florida tomato growers in dispute with Mexico
Rejecting warnings that it could ignite a trade war, the Obama administration on Thursday said it planned to change its tomato-trading rules with Mexico, siding with Florida growers who complained that a glut of imports threatened to shut down the U.S. industry.
In the long-awaited ruling, the Commerce Department said the U.S. can change the trading rules to benefit domestic growers without violating its obligations under the World Trade Organization.
While its ruling is preliminary, the department said it planned to scrap a 1996 agreement, allowing the federal government to resume an investigation into whether Mexican growers are dumping tomatoes in the United States at below-market prices.
Mexican officials say the dispute is important because it could force U.S. consumers to pay three to four times as much for fresh tomatoes and lead to fewer jobs for farm workers on both sides of the border. They said it also will put a strain on relations between the two longtime trading partners and ultimately could lead to declining exports of other products to Mexico.
"We're stunned – we're completely stunned," said Martin Ley, executive vice president of Del Campo Supreme, a company that grew more than 200 million pounds of tomatoes in Mexico last year. "This does not serve the interests of the U.S. consumer."
Arturo Sarukhan, the Mexican ambassador to the U.S., said the Mexican government was "extremely disappointed" and suggested that the ruling could lead to retaliation, comparing it to a bitter fight over cross-border trucking that resulted in Mexico putting tariffs on a long list of U.S. exports.
"Mexico will respond – you should ask those who were in the Mexican crosshairs over the trucking dispute," Sarukhan said. "When Mexico aims, Mexico hits the target."
The ruling is a victory for the Florida Tomato Exchange, which represents a majority of growers in the Sunshine State. On June 22, the Florida growers formally asked the Commerce Department for help, saying the U.S. industry would not survive unless the federal government intervened
With Mexico now accounting for more than 70 percent of the U.S. import market for tomatoes, it has resulted in "a catastrophic collapse" of the domestic industry, said Reggie Brown of Maitland, Fla., executive director of the Florida Tomato Exchange. In the past 16 years, he said, domestic growers have suffered while the size of the Mexican tomato industry in the U.S. has doubled in size and tripled in value.
Brown called the ruling "welcome news," adding: "It will help reverse the downward spiral the industry has been facing."
Sarukhan said the Obama administration's ruling appeared to be "dictated by politics, rather than policy." Mexican growers had accused the Florida growers of pursuing the change during the presidential campaign, seeking to leverage the importance of the state for both Obama and his GOP challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
After producing 38 million 25-pound boxes of tomatoes last year, Florida growers had a higher-valued crop than any other state. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Florida growers accounted for nearly half – or $547 million – of the $1.3 billion fresh tomato industry in 2011. California, with a crop valued at $378 million, ranked second, followed by North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, South Carolina and Michigan, respectively.
The tiff is the latest trade spat between the United States and Mexico, partners who joined forces to sign the historic North American Free Trade Agreement nearly 20 years ago. And now the two are among 11 countries pushing to finalize the new Trans-Pacific Partnership, which could become the largest trade pact in U.S. history.
Members of the Arizona congressional delegation, reflecting the state's close proximity to Mexico, wanted to keep the rules intact and urged the administration not to rush into anything, particularly before the election. And Wal-Mart had sided with the Mexican growers as well, saying they had provided a predictable and steady supply of tomatoes for the U.S.
But the Florida growers won backing from the Florida congressional delegation and from workers and government officials across the country, including in California, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Ohio and Illinois.
In a letter to the Commerce Department, Armando Elenes of Delano, Calif., vice president of the United Farm Workers, said the 1996 agreement had "failed miserably" to address unfair trade practices by Mexican growers, and he said that keeping it intact could threaten gains won for thousands of farm workers in recent labor contracts.
Instead of changing the trade rules, Mexican growers said, the U.S. industry needs to be more efficient and make better use of technology to compete.
Ley said Florida growers have become "less and less and less relevant in the marketplace" as Mexican growers – unlike their U.S. counterparts – have developed new varieties of tomatoes that are tastier and more popular. Mexican growers say they also have an advantage with lower labor costs, along with better soil, weather and growing conditions.
"They're irrelevant because they are not evolving with the industry – the industry has evolved dramatically," Ley said. "All they have to do is evolve and stop spending money on lawyers in Washington, D.C."
And he warned that no one will win if consumers are forced to pay higher prices. "Before the consumer pays $5 or $6 a pound for tomatoes, they will go and consume another vegetable," Ley said. "The consumer is going to walk away from the tomato industry. Even if Florida wins, they win nothing because they're going to destroy the industry."
The two sides are sparring over a 16-year-old agreement that came after the signing of NAFTA, which eliminated tariffs on imported tomatoes from Mexico and resulted in a flood of imports. Under pressure from the Florida growers, the Commerce Department began an investigation into whether Mexican growers were dumping their tomatoes on the U.S. market by selling at below-market prices. But federal authorities suspended the agreement when Mexican growers agreed to a minimum price, and the so-called "suspension agreement" has remained on the books ever since and been renewed twice, in 2002 and 2008. Scrapping the agreeement now would allow the government to reopen the dumping investigation.
The Commerce Department said it planned to consider any new facts in the case before issuing a final ruling in the next few months.