Hagedorn claimed last week that “nobody (in America) goes to sleep at night wondering if they’ll be able to feed their families.”
Congressman Jim Hagedorn’s week is already off to a bad start, with the Congressman facing outrage over his erroneous claim that “Nobody (in America) goes to sleep at night wondering if they’ll be able to feed their families.” As City Pages reported this morning, Hagedorn simply doesn’t seem to understand that “people get laid off, get slammed by medical bills, or live in housing that eats up most of their paycheck. One bad month is all it takes before you wake up not knowing how to feed your kids, and a grocery store full of food can’t help you.”
Hagedorn’s inability to recognize the challenges faced by working class Minnesotans should come as no surprise. A creature of the Washington swamp, Hagedorn called the D.C. area home for over 25 years before returning to Minnesota to become a perennial candidate. Since being sworn in, he has failed to hold a single town hall to hear from his constituents.
City Pages: Somebody please explain to Congressman Jim Hagedorn how poverty works
By Hannah Jones, April 30, 2019
Last week, Minnesota Congressman Jim Hagedorn (R-Blue Earth) stood in the Worthington Fire Hall and expressed his appreciation for agriculture.
“Agriculture is a national security issue,” he said, according to The Globet.
…In fact, it was because of agriculture, he said, that “nobody (in America) goes to sleep at night wondering if they’ll be able to feed their families.”
Jim? Jim?
As wondrous and bountiful as America’s yield is, it still routinely fails to feed everyone in the country. It’s estimated that 1 in 8 Americans are “food insecure,” a polite way of saying they often go without. That translates to roughly 40 million people, 12 million of them children.
…According to Feeding America, people get laid off, get slammed by medical bills, or live in housing that eats up most of their paycheck. One bad month is all it takes before you wake up not knowing how to feed your kids, and a grocery store full of food can’t help you.
…It should be noted that Hagedorn was the sole member of Minnesota’s congressional delegation not to sign into a letter in support of MinnesotaCare, which helps some 80,000 people in his state pay for health care. It now faces a cut in federal funding.
…Some of his previous takes include comparing former President Barack Obama’s campaign to a “low-budget remake of Eddie Murphy’s hit comedy Coming to America,” that consensual sex between two men was “deviancy,” and that former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was “hot.”
When he spoke to City Pages during his 2018 run for office, he said he stood by all of them.
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