ND GOP Ups Their Own Meal Reimbursements After Nixing School Lunch
In a stunning act of hypocrisy, the North Dakota Senate approved legislation to increase the amount of money that lawmakers and other state employees receive in meal reimbursements just after they voted against hungry kids getting free lunch at school.
Late last month, North Dakota State Sen. Mike Wobbema said that hungry children are not their problem.
"I can understand kids going hungry, but is that really the problem of the school district?" he asked. "Is that the problem of the state of North Dakota? It's really the problem of parents being negligent with their kids if their kids are choosing to eat in the first place."
It's not just Wobbema. Some Republicans in the state claim that the issues are unrelated, but Democratic Senate Minority Leader Kathy Hogan disagrees.
“I thought today’s vote was very self-serving,” she said. “How can we vote for ourselves when we can’t vote for children?”
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