Uniquely Evil MN Republican Votes Against Free School Lunches Because 'Hunger Is a Relative Thing'

[Celerity]

He also used his time on the floor to make jokes about being hungry because he only had “a cereal bar” for breakfast today.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/steve-drazkowski-minnesota-free-school-lunches

https://archive.is/N2vI2



If there’s one word that sums up the modern Republican Party, it’s cruelty. Want to see that cruelty neatly encapsulated in less than 47 seconds? Minnesota state senator Steve Drazkowski has got a treat for you.

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It’s hard to decide which part of Drazkowski’s little speech is the most f--ked up. Obviously, the stand-out was the idea that, because he has never personally met someone in Minnesota who does not have enough food to eat, they must not exist. (Not surprisingly, he’s extremely wrong.) But perhaps equally disturbing was his attempt at a joke, in which he declared: “Hunger is a relative term…I had a cereal bar for breakfast, I guess I’m ‘hungry’ now.”

Luckily for kids in Minnesota, the bill, which provides free breakfast and lunch to all school children in the state, passed the state Senate on Tuesday by a vote of 38-26; it now goes back to the House and, should it pass, will head to Governor Tim Walz’s desk. But it’s important to remember that terrible people like Drazkowski wanted it to fail, and that lawmakers like him are a feature, not a bug, of the GOP.

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In related news re: Republicans being the most disturbed collection of people on earth…

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[niyad]

1. Backpfeifengesicht. I nearly lost my lunch. I would happily sacrifice a broken

nail on that first pic.

[electric_blue68]

17. Heh, had to google that. I remember the phrase. I agree. Haughty bastard.

[LoisB]

2. No doubt they both consider themselves good "Christians" who sit their asses in church every

Sunday.

[markodochartaigh]

11. From his Wikipedia page

he attends St. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic church in Mazeppa.

[TheBlackAdder]

30. The GOP's motto regarding sexual thirst: 'Hunger Is a Relative Thing'

[Abolishinist]

3. n 2006, Steve Drazkowski was arrested and charged

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with assaulting his then-14-year-old daughter. Although he was acquitted, the judge issued a temporary restraining order against him.


https://www.postbulletin.com/news/state-senate-candidate-charged-with-assault

On Edit- there seems to be a paywall on this, depending on which computer I use. So here goes...

A Wabasha man running for the state Senate seat held by DFL Sen. Steve Murphy has been charged with physically assaulting his 14-year-old daughter. Charges of fifth-degree domestic assault were filed after Steve Drazkowski, 41, allegedly grabbed his daughter by the shirt below her neck and lifted her heels off the ground while yelling in her face, court records say.

Documents say a Wabasha police officer arrived at Wabasha/Kellogg High School on Oct. 13 to find an emotionally distraught girl with two red marks on her upper chest. She complained that she was afraid of her father and didn't want to return to her home.

The girl told authorities that the assault was not an isolated incident and that verbal fights occur on a daily basis. She said Drazkowski had slapped her one time in December 2004 when" she could not hold a cold dog dish while he filled it."Drazkowski was arrested at his home and jailed overnight before being released without bail.

He was divorced

[niyad]

25. May he, and his enablers, receive everything they deserve.

[Ocelot II]

4. The demographics of this d-bag's district:

Race
87.1% White
1.4% Black
1.9% Asian
0.4% Native American
0% Pacific Islander
Ethnicity 6.7% Hispanic
Median household income $86,559

That is, mostly white and middle class. Voted for TFG in 2020. Even so, there are certainly some hungry people in that district; and even if there weren't, there are plenty elsewhere in the state. He probably walks past them every day on his way to his job at the state capitol. Smug fucker.

[raging moderate]

5. I went hungry a lot as a child. Of course we didn't announce that we were hungry.

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My mother had gone hungry as a child and teenager during the Great Depression, and had actually gone without food for a day or two occasionally. Of course she didn't announce that she was hungry.

You are right. This psychopath probably passes hungry people every day without noticing.

[niyad]

26. Neither noticing nor caring.

[Ocelot II]

36. How would that idiot even know by looking at someone

that they were hungry? Do they not count as hungry unless they are sitting on street corners, half-naked and emaciated and holding begging bowls, like in a scene from a famine in a third-world country? It's possible to be hungry and malnourished without obvious outward signs. This heartless GOP turd needs to visit a food bank. Or does he think those are unnecessary too?

[Nanuke]

6. What a fool and embarrassment to MN

His district even includes a Native American reservation. Our state is in a surplus position and he wants to oppose feeding hungry kids. Makes me sick.

Also, I volunteer 3 days a week at our state’s largest food shelf. Our demand has never been greater. Don’t tell me there are not hungry/food insecure people in Minnesota. I see them every day.

[Skittles]

15. I thought, he needs to have his limo take him to a food bank

but I don't know if the workers and clients at a food bank deserve that......

[niyad]

27. They do not!

[Stargazer99]

7. He has never known someone hungry because he doesn't travel in the lower classes

I'll bet no one in his class would be hungry-as they have sufficient monies to purchase food-not the poor and low income. What makes him think everyone is a well off as he is...oh I forgot Republicans do not endorse critical thinking just their emotional ignorance

[Just A Box Of Rain]

8. Shameful

[mzmolly]

9. That MF needs to get out more.

He should visit low income housing in the state, for starters. The POS.

[Solly Mack]

10. I'm sure he hasn't met anyone who is going hungry. I'm also equally certain that's

intentional. He doesn't know any because he doesn't want to know any. He doesn't make the effort to find out how people live in his state. Well, people not in his little bubble.

[Demobrat]

12. Of course he doesn't know anyone who is hungry.

Everyone he knows can afford to attend fundraising dinners.

[ShazzieB]

13. I am so glad to hear it passed despite the efforts of Drazkowski and other S.O.B.s like him.

BREAKING: @SenGustafson's bill to provide meals to all students just passed in the Minnesota Senate!

[Skittles]

14. "I've known what is is to be hungry, but then I went to a restaurant"

this is how the GOP views hunger

[rubbersole]

16. They are heartless fucks.

Karma is real. FAFO.

[Skittles]

21. a lot of their own supporters are food insecure

they don't give a fuck; no INDEED

[PCIntern]

18. There is a story which is often told in some synagogues during a sermon

In which the little boy inKindergarten is asked why he didn’t eat breakfast that morning and his reply was “Because it wasn’t my turn.”

[niyad]

23. Gutwrenching.

[PCIntern]

31. I've heard it maybe twenty times over the years

And it still hurts every time.

[raccoon]

19. The cruelty is strong in this one.

[treestar]

20. Republicans have to experience something personally

before they understand it exists. They lack imagination.

[Justice]

35. Republicans lack empathy

There is a good piece by Margaret Carlson from 1997 about Republican members of Congress and members of the media advocating for a particular cause because of a personal experience in their family or among their close friends, but being unwilling to have empathy for others outside their circle who are suffering from other causes.

https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/04/14/time/carlson.html

[treestar]

40. had a right wing uncle like that

for a while, he had a gay stepson. He became woke on that one issue. The examples in that article are typical.

[maxrandb]

22. Evil Retrumplican "this", Cruel Retrumplican "that", Demonic Retrumplican "this"

I think it's important to remember that these fucksticks didn't just trip, hit their head and accidentally fall into public office.

Our neighbors, family members, co-workers and "friends", walked into a polling booth and pulled the lever for them. They opened a mail in ballot, sat down at their kitchen table, took out a pen or pencil, marked in favor of these asspickles, put that ballot in an envelope, licked the glue strip, sealed that envelope and put it in the mail.

Businesses where we spend our hard-earned money, fund, enable and support them.

Radio stations and media outlets, in every nook and cranny of this county, support and promote them.

We are in a no-shit, all-hands-on-deck, pitched battle for our very souls.

If we truly love our country, our families and our way of life, we must remember...

Nothing will change! The racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy...NONE OF IT...will change, unless and until we make racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy unprofitable to the corporations, businesses and individuals that fund and enable it.

[niyad]

28. Exactly.

[Irish_Dem]

24. Richest country in the history of the world can't afford to give lunch to hungry school children.

Total disgrace.

[niyad]

32. It is not that we cannot afford it. We don't want to.

[Irish_Dem]

34. Exactly. Just like with gun violence, health care, etc. etc.

[panader0]

29. He needs to be locked up without food until he knows what hunger is.

[niyad]

33. Exactly.

[Ocelot II]

37. "If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor,

either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.” - Stephen Colbert

[surrealAmerican]

38. Who does he see in his office?

What would be the procedure that a hypothetical impovershed 10-year-old would need to do to meet with with him?

Maybe he could try doing some sort of "outreach"?

[Skittles]

39. the only people repukes ever really "see"

RICH WHITE STRAIGHT MEN