During his recent campaign stop in Marshall, Libertarian Party nominee for Texas Agriculture Commissioner Rocky Palmquist said hes tired of taxes, regulations and the two-party systems promises, which is why he decided to run for office.

I got into this race for the mere fact that the two-party system, which I like to call bipolar politics, says the same thing over and over again every four years, said Palmquist, a farmer, rancher and independent horticultural consultant from Bastrop County.

And it doesnt matter whether its the Democrat or the Republic, its the same coin, its just two different sides of it, he said.

So, somebody had to step up and say weve been regulated enough or taxed enough. Were tired of the agricultural department agency looking over our shoulders. Were tired of having to pay $125 to grow a flower, Palmquist said.

Were tired of the school lunch programs and school breakfast programs that have been infiltrated by the feds ... mandatory lunches. And not only is it the lunch, theyre about to be serving breakfast and supper, too, all across the state year round, he said..

Palmquist believes that since the agriculture department is the agency that will administer that, the first thing he would do, if elected into office, is start looking at how many programs are unfunded mandates imposed by the federal government.

What I think we need to do is have somebody thats got the guts to tell them OK, you want us to do this wheres the money because were not going to take it out of the taxpayers pockets in the state of Texas anymore, Palmquist said.

The federal governmen, according to Palmquists opinion, has no idea what Texas needs.

They have no way of knowing. So what we have to do, we have to get in there, get the offices leveled out, Palmquist said. We need some top-down job attrition. We need cuts in the school lunch program, breakfast program, supper program not additions. The money is already there; we dont need it.

In addition to the lunch programs, he also wants to take a look at giant corporations that are impacting the agriculture industry such as Monsanto and ADM (Archer Daniels Midland).

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Agriculture Commissioner hopeful touts taxes, regulations, two-party system