Source: Matthew Burns, WRAL, 6/14/18

The annual farm bill continues to generate impassioned debate in the General Assembly, but Rep. John Blust, R-Guilford, appears to have topped his colleagues with a 14-minute tirade Thursday before the bill won final House passage.  Blust's fury, which included references to Winston Churchill, ACC basketball and the Israelites in Egypt, was aimed as much at how the farm bill has been pushed through the legislature in the past two weeks as it was at a provision in the measure that insulates hog farms from…

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