\u201cMy grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You\u2019re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don\u2019t think too much further than that. And so what you\u2019ve got to do is you\u2019ve got to curtail that type of behavior. They don\u2019t know any better<\/span>,\u201d Bauer said. […]<\/font><\/p>\n Later in his speech, Bauer said, \u201cI can show you a bar graph where free and reduced lunch has the worst test scores in the state of South Carolina,\u201d adding, \u201cYou show me the school that has the highest free and reduced lunch, and I\u2019ll show you the worst test scores, folks. It\u2019s there, period.<\/span>\u201c\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n Only a true GOP sweetheart would compare the children of people his party\u2019s policies condemn to poverty to stray animals. I imagine the above graphic reflects Bauer\u2019s concept of an ideal child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today\u2019s GOP sweetheart is a real piece of\u2026 work. South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, who is running for the Republican nomination for governor, held a town hall meeting yesterday where he argued government should be tougher on families whose children receive free and reduced-price lunches. Bauer said that parents should be required to \u201cpass […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"bauersideal\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202010\/J-M\/GOPSweetheart1242010AndreBauer_1D67\/bauersideal.jpg\" "\\"bauersideal\\"")
<\/a> South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, who is running for the Republican nomination for governor, held a town hall meeting yesterday where he argued government should be tougher on families whose children receive free and reduced-price lunches. Bauer said that parents should be required to \u201cpass drug tests or attend parent-teacher conferences or PTA meetings.\u201d To make this argument, however, he compared people<\/font> receiving government assistance to stray animals<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n