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Sancho

(9,070 posts)
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 06:47 AM Aug 2018

An you thought having a fake college degree was crazy? Food stamp gate!

http://floridapolitics.com/archives/271659-terry-power-food-stamps

House candidate Terry Power lives in $500K home but applied for food stamps

The Republican who’s challenging state Rep. Jamie Grant for his House District 64 seat lives in a $500,000 home but applied for food stamps, according to recent tweets.


If you read the whole background, it's like a soap opera:

We previously reported that Power owes nearly $88,000 in alimony.
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Looks like Power made a $74,000 campaign contribution to himself so that he could not pay alimony and applied for food stamps because he was out of money?!?

I live in Pinellas...these are some of the nut cases that repubs here vote for...my neighbors!

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An you thought having a fake college degree was crazy? Food stamp gate! (Original Post) Sancho Aug 2018 OP
Give him the food stamps TexasTowelie Aug 2018 #1
There ya go. And he needs to open his home to homeless Roland99 Aug 2018 #3
And he must get two or three McJobs to make up the shortfall. lpbk2713 Aug 2018 #9
Congressional welfare? leftofcool Aug 2018 #2
This is why the Florida shoreline is now littered with the rotting carcasses of dead Manatees Submariner Aug 2018 #4
This red tide is out of control too.. Sancho Aug 2018 #5
The pollution problem will kill tourism greymattermom Aug 2018 #6
Let's see, Grant or Power HAB911 Aug 2018 #7
They should get together and raise a nice little family of felonies and misdemeanors. marble falls Aug 2018 #8
Following in the Footsteps of Deadbeat Donald... dlk Aug 2018 #10
I wonder... stpetegreg Aug 2018 #11

TexasTowelie

(112,197 posts)
1. Give him the food stamps
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 06:56 AM
Aug 2018

with the requirement that the only food that he can consume must be purchased using those food stamps. Let's see how many days he can make a month of benefits last. Afterwards he might have a clue what is like for those who have to depend on food stamps for a long period of time.

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)
9. And he must get two or three McJobs to make up the shortfall.
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 09:09 AM
Aug 2018


He wouldn't make it. Financially or emotionally.

Submariner

(12,504 posts)
4. This is why the Florida shoreline is now littered with the rotting carcasses of dead Manatees
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 07:16 AM
Aug 2018

dead sea turtles, and dead fish.

Florida votes losers like this guy and medicare fraud thief Rick Scott and lying Marco (my mommy escaped from Castro) Rubio into governing positions where they totally screw up in doing their job.

Sancho

(9,070 posts)
5. This red tide is out of control too..
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 07:21 AM
Aug 2018

and the voters have passed all kinds of referendums to protect the environment - Scott is the worst governor ever!

greymattermom

(5,754 posts)
6. The pollution problem will kill tourism
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 07:27 AM
Aug 2018

much faster than global warming. I'm booking my usual January trip, and I hope it won't be the last time. My favorite beach has been posting pictures of dead fish and brown water on their facebook page for weeks now.

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