After Olbermann swipe, Davis defends stance on food program
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State Rep. Cynthia Davis’ quip that hungry Missouri youngsters could work at McDonald’s — where, she says, employees eat free during their break — led her to a spot on talk show host Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World” segment.
Today, the O’Fallon, Mo. Republican sent out a statement, defending her opposition to a program that provides food to disadvantaged youth.
It reads, in part:
When government takes over a family function, like feeding children on a daily basis, we take a group of people who are capable and treat them like they are incapacitated. Some have a low view of parents, presuming most of them are inept and proposing governmental intervention as the only solution.
I believe most parents are good and want the blessing and privilege of feeding their children. When families are sharing a meal around the kitchen table, much more is happening. Mealtime is the primary time for shaping values and strengthening bonds. All of this is missing or diluted when it happens outside the family. Look into your own heart and ask, “What made a difference in my life as a child?” Was it standing in a line for a cafeteria style meal at school or was it sitting around the kitchen table with others in your family?
All the children being fed in this program have parents or guardians who are already functioning in a nurturing roll. They have not been judged to be neglectful or abusive in any way. Government should not take the care of their children from them. The right way to help is to treat the root cause, not the symptom. We must support the parents in providing for their children, not circumvent them.
Davis’ statement does not mention Olbermann. Instead, it appears targeted at the Post-Dispatch editorial board, which wrote a piece critical of the lawmaker after the McDonald’s comment appeared in a newsletter to voters.
“My weekly Capitol Report is a way for me to have two-way communications with my constituents,” Davis wrote in today’s response, “and not a national manifesto for you to mock, distort, and to be quoted out of context.”
Ray,
You state:
Davis is right, children should be fed by their families and at the family table.
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I can think of a million things that SHOULD BE, but that has crap to do with what is, does it? What kind of blind people are you ones, so unwilling to acknowledge and see tings as they REALLY are?
Representative Davis response is almost incoherent. Case in point, she seems to think that if the government wasn’t supplying these meals, the families would all sit around the dining room together and share a special time. Yet this program is being run as part of a summer time daycare system, because the parents have to work.
Then she says the government undercuts the value of the parents by giving them food, but then turns around and states that the people should get the food from food pantries and other charities. Evidently, when people food given from a food pantry is OK for one’s dignity, but not food given from a program such as this one.
Well, to a hungry kid, food is food. But then, I doubt that Representative Davis has ever been a “hungry kid”. How can she have been, and be so lacking in empathy and compassion?
This is all about money. Representative Davis has her money, and she begrudges any penny of that money going to something other than her own benefit. She’s a selfish woman, who appeals to the selfishness in others.
I can understand her, we see her type too often nowadays. What I want to know is: how could her community elect her three times? Is the entire community as cold, and selfish as she?
Isn’t there anyone else to run in O’Fallon??
People in O’Fallon not only elected her to 4 terms as a Missouri State Rep, they also elected her as their alderman for over 10 years.
Again, after she’s termed out next year, what will Cynthia do for income and where will she be able to pick up her free food. If there are no hearings, meetings, conventions, or lobbyist sponsored happy times with government or lobbyist food troughs, where will the food to feed her family come from?
I do believe that while there are some exceptions as there are with most things, Davis pretty much sum up the citizens of O’Fallon and is why she was elected 4 terms as a Missouri State Rep, and over 10 years as their alderman. It is going to take a lot of new blood to dilute that place of its ignorance and hypocrisy.
That the parents and guardians are “functioning in a nurturing roll” is impressive. It ain’t easy, functioning after getting baked!
Well gosh darnit suzanne, did you ever think Ms. Davis worked hard to get where she’s at instead of waiting for the damn Obama handout? And if there was no government, what would motivate a hungry person?
T.Walker,
We are not all bad people out here in St.Charles County. The present crop of Republican elected officials have come up through the ranks of municipal positions. Either former County Council members or City oficials. The Republicans have done a good job running their people through the different levels of government–and reward their own.
We as Democrats have done a poor job in the past by not have quality candidates to run against the status que/Republicans. I do not believe we have given the voters enough good options to choose from.
That being said, we do have serveral good quality candidates ready to run in 2010. In fact several of them are already planning they’re campaigns. That’s a first for us, :). These future candidates are fed up with the jobs that the status que/Republicans and feel the voters of St.Charles County want and need a change.
T-Square,
For your information C.Davis is mercifully TERMED OUT. She will surface someplace, shes used to feeding off the government trough.
“We must support the parents in providing for their children”.
And little Cynthia supports parents by voting against the minimum wage, denying workers compensation, assaulting labor unions, voting against project labor agreements, and supporting Blunt’s efforts to deny children healthcare……
Thanks for your support Cindy.
Being ridiculed and embarassed in front of a national audience is a good motivator to examine your narrow and ignorant beliefs…
PS…It’s obvious you’ve been pampered your entire life.
hey, reddog are you at home.