PLANT CITY, Fla. — Dennis Richter, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, talks with Plant City farmer Karl Butts, Oct. 17. One hundred mph winds from recent storms wreaked havoc on what only two weeks earlier had been growing farm fields. “For a family farmer raising strawberries it’s a high-stakes operation. It costs $10,000 or more per acre to get the fruit planted,” Butts told Richter. Family farmers are natural allies of the working class who need to fight together against the capitalist exploiters, Richter told a Miami campaign meeting the next day.
