The sinister thing about Joni Ernst's "bread bag" line.

[RandySF]

It was her remark that she wasn't embarrassed because all the kids had them on. In other words, she's telling people to be content in their poverty.

[ND-Dem]

1. I don't believe for a minute she was ever poor though.

[jmowreader]

5. She grew up in a farm family

Farmers are generally "paper rich and cash poor."

Strange thing is, hog farmers buy overshoes for their kids; if you have to work in a place that's got a foot of pig manure on the ground, shoes you can clean with a hose come in REAL handy.

[ND-Dem]

7. she went to state college, then graduate school. if her family owned a farm, they weren't poor.

daddy had a construction company too, apparently. and as soon as she got any power he was on the take. he didn't start the company with monopoly money; possibly some of the profit from that poverty-stricken farm.


A construction company owned by GOP Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst’s father received more than $200,000 in county contracts while she served as auditor of Montgomery County, Iowa, despite a strict conflict of interest code governing the provision of contracts to family members of county officials.

A new review of records — as well as an analysis of the Code of Iowa — by Salon reveals that the nature of the contracts and how they were promulgated, may have violated relevant county standards.

http://www.salon.com/2014/10/07/exclusive_contracts_awarded_to_joni_ernsts_father_raise_conflict_of_interest_questions/



Turns out that farm subsidies aren’t the only federal program Joni Ernst won’t vote to kill if she wins that Senate race. There’s one more federal program she wants to keep.

Ernst likes FEMA and wants to keep it! So does her father. This even though some blue states benefit from it sometimes, too! Go figure. She won’t even squawk about appropriations for it. Then again, she’s a turkey, not a chicken. So she might cluck.

- See more at: http://angrybearblog.com/2014/10/turns-out-that-farm-subsidies-arent-the-only-federal-program-that-joni-ernst-wont-vote-to-kill-if-she-wins-that-senate-race-theres-one-more-she-wants-to-keep-2.html#sthash.yXcZDrM6.dpuf


She worked construction too. (With dad. so I guess she means at dad's company)

“As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees,” she said, recounting an anecdote about wearing plastic bags over her shoes to protect them on rainy school days.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/20/joni-ernst-speech_n_6488990.html


she plowed the fields? lol. she drove.

and nobody who was born in 1970 got to college by working at hardees. her family paid or she got a loan. hardees could have been spending money.

[Zambero]

10. Iowa is in tornado alley

If and whenever a big one hits, FEMA will come to the rescue with disaster relief funds. Yes, in representing Iowa she'd better be for it.

[ND-Dem]

11. but republicans hate government programs. unless they benefit from them.

[joshcryer]

16. Nice work.

She clearly "misremembered" her "poor childhood."

[onecaliberal]

2. Funny that everyone had them on but no one who

Who has ever posted here.

[philosslayer]

9. Wow

EPIC fail

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026115094

[ND-Dem]

12. one person said he wore them over his shoes. everyone else who wore them, wore them

inside their shoes.

it doesn't make sense to wear breadbags outside your shoes. they rip too easily, and they're slippery on ice and snow.

[JaneyVee]

14. Everyone knows the bag goes over the sock not the shoe.

[philosslayer]

17. Were you poor as a child?

Do you KNOW how people wore/wear them? Clearly the poster has personal experience. Do you?

The lack of sensitivity on this and other threads tonight is jaw dropping.

[Major Hogwash]

18. Dude, she dropped a dookie into the toilet tonight with that phony baloney story.

If you want to reach in to the toilet bowl and pull out that dookie, and then rub on it all night to try and make it shiny, go right ahead.

[ND-Dem]

19. I was much poorer than joni ernst, that's for sure, because my parents didn't own shit, let

alone a farm and a construction company.

I know my cousins wore them inside their shoes, over their socks. and *they* actually owned a farm, and weren't poor, but they still wore plastic inside their shoes in bad weather, to keep their feet dry and warm.

[KT2000]

3. or maybe she was not as poor

as she wants everyone to believe. Sometimes people compare themselves to the wealthy and consider themselves poor if they don't have as much. She is talking about something silly - not about lack of a home, food or sanitary conditions.

[ND-Dem]

13. the family owned a farm and a construction company. it that's poor, then our family was wayyyy

poorer.

[KT2000]

15. HA! I knew it -

she is a total BS'er - and the TPs are falling for it.

[world wide wally]

4. It was just a fashion statement

She was quite the little rebel

[Zambero]

6. I'm surprised there were any spare bread bags for kids' feet

In all likelihood, they must have been used to collect and discard those vast quantities of hog testicles, the anatomical focal point / gimmick of Ernst's recent Senate campaign.

[jmowreader]

8. Discard?

Farmers don't "discard" testicles, they put them in the freezer. No point letting good meat go to waste.

[ND-Dem]

22. but they pack them in bread bags

[jmowreader]

23. You'd also have to wrap them in freezer paper.

Otherwise, your balls wouldn't keep very well - freezer burn is a definite risk.

[ND-Dem]

20. all those iowa corn farmers are so damn poor. it's a shame.

[Mariana]

21. If all the kids had them on in her town

then it wasn't something that only poor people did, it was something that everyone did.

[ND-Dem]

24. they were ALL poor!! that's why joni didn;t feel bad!! all those poor corn farmers!!!

[TeamPooka]

25. If Obama proposed a program to give kids in Iowa boots, republicans would vote to make the kids

walk in pigshit barefoot.