Bob Kerrey

Former Senator Bob Kerrey is Co-Chairman of the Concord Coalition.


 * Scholar/Advisor, International Freedom Center
 * Advisory Board, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis

Profiles
Bob Kerrey is "currently the President of New School University, in New York City. He previously served his home state of Nebraska as Governor from 1983-87 and as U.S. Senator for two terms, from 1989 to 2001." 

"Senator Kerrey served on the Finance Committee, the Agricultural Committee and the Appropriations Committee, and was Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He was also on several congressionally chartered commissions, including the Kerrey-Danforth Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform, and the Breaux-Thomas National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. The findings and final report of the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform, released in January 1995, are often cited by economic experts and national leaders as the definitive analysis of the nation's entitlement system and a turning point in the debate on entitlement reform.

"Senator Kerrey volunteered for service in the U.S. Navy as a Navy Seal and was wounded in action in Vietnam. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1970. Prior to his entering public service, Senator Kerrey built a chain of highly successful restaurants and health clubs that now employ more than 900 people. He joined the Concord Coalition Board of Directors in January 2001 upon his retirement from the Senate." 

Chez Sludge
Kerry is on the Advisory Board of the Chez Panisse Foundation. The Food Rights Network released a major investigative report on July 9, 2010 titled: Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters. It examines collusion between the Chez Panisse Foundation and the SFPUC based on an extensive open records investigation of the SFPUC internal files. (To view the internal documents see: SFPUC Sludge Controversy Timeline.)

Foundation Mired in 'Sewage Sludge on Gardens'
In 2009 and 2010 a major controversy erupted in San Francisco involving Chez Panisse Foundation Executive Director Francesca Vietor when the Center for Food Safety (upon whose Advisory Board sits Alice Waters) and the Organic Consumers Association called on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, of which Vietor is Vice President, to end its give-away of toxic sewage sludge as 'organic compost' for gardeners. In advance of the OCA's March 4 sludge protest at City Hall, the SFPUC temporarily halted the give-away.

The misleading labeled "organic compost," which the PUC has given away free to gardeners since 2007, is composed of toxic sewage sludge from San Francisco and eight other counties. Very little toxicity testing has been done, but what little has been done is alarming. Just the sludge from San Francisco alone has tested positive for 1,2-Dibromo-3-Chloropropane (a.k.a. DBCP), Isopropyltoluene (a.k.a. p-cymene or p-isopropyltoluene), Dioxins and Furans.

The Organic Consumers Association conducted a noon hour picket of Chez Panisse April 1, 2010, after Alice Waters refused a request to oppose growing food in sewage sludge. The industry front group ACSH is now making Alice Waters a poster-child for toxic sewage sludge.

SourceWatch Resources

 * Committee for the Liberation of Iraq Kerry was a founding member.
 * Chez Panisse Foundation