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http://floridapolitics.com/archives/271659-terry-power-food-stampsHouse candidate Terry Power lives in $500K home but applied for food stamps
If you read the whole background, it's like a soap opera:
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!
TexasTowelie
(112,197 posts)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.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)He wouldn't make it. Financially or emotionally.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Submariner
(12,504 posts)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)and the voters have passed all kinds of referendums to protect the environment - Scott is the worst governor ever!
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)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.
HAB911
(8,891 posts)Grant or Power
Just shoot me
marble falls
(57,083 posts)dlk
(11,566 posts)stpetegreg
(28 posts)if they'll make him take a piss test.