{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Christina Woerner McInnis is Candidate for AL Ag Commissioner. The Job Is Much More than Most Realize.","description":"Christina Woerner McInnis is running for Alabama Agriculture Commissioner, and the job turns out to be far bigger \u2014 and far stranger \u2014 than most of us realize. Once she and I started talking, the scope unfurled like a county fair map: everything from how many gallons come through the gasoline pump to whether the grocery-store salad bar scale is honest, all the way to steering timber policy across the entire state. Historically, candidates have fit a familiar mold: men in cowboy hats, thick accents, and a kind of mythic farm-boss swagger. Christina is a sharp break from that pattern. She\u2019s a woman who grew up on the office side of her family farm \u2014 the side where you learn not just how a farm works, but why it works. She\u2019ll tell you she can drive a tractor and pull a calf, and she can, but her real power is in understanding how all the pieces of a complex system knit together to create a viable, resilient operation. That\u2019s the same lens she brings to the commissioner\u2019s office she\u2019s aiming for: a deep grasp of how Alabama\u2019s many agricultural worlds \u2014 fuel, food, timber, regulation, commerce \u2014 interlock. She wants to pull those pieces together with intention and clarity, not nostalgia, to strengthen the state\u2019s future. Comments: Cam@CamMarston.com.  ","author_name":"What's Working with Cam Marston","author_url":"http:\/\/www.whatsworkingcam.com","html":"