Time for Pumpkin Reform

In our great nation there will be a certain percentage of people who will not have the Halloween pumpkins they need and deserve:

When children leave Cox Farms and other pumpkin patches across the nation this fall, they may go home with a gourd instead of the traditional orange pumpkin.

That's because Cox Farms, which hosts one of the Washington area's largest fall festivals this month, is looking at a pumpkin shortage.

Cox Farms marketing manager Bob Richard said a rainy spring in some parts of the country has led to a dearth of the little pumpkins that children carry home from the patch. Those pumpkins are free with the $15 admission price.

Clearly this calls for a Pumpkin reform bill. Big Pumpkin cannot be allowed to decide who can and cannot have pumpkins.