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n a video that was posted to the official YouTube channel for the MNGOP House caucus, Rep. Mary Franson, R-Alexandria, compares food stamp recipients to wild animals.
She later tweeted an apology for her comments and had the video removed, but the clip, embedded below, is preserved in the fossil record.
First elected in 2010, Franson supports reducing the amount of time Minnesotans can stay on welfare from five to three years. In another part of the now-taken-down video, Franson says: "I believe that we can get Minnesota's poorest of the poor back up on their feet and moving toward a prosperous future."
Here's how Franson made the comparison between Minnesota's poor and wild animals:
This, apparently, is the mental framework Rep. Franson uses to think about Minnesota's poor.
I'll read you this little funny clip that we got from a friend. It says, 'Isn't it ironic that the food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps, ever.
Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to please not feed the animals, because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves.'
Thanks, Mary! Four more years!!!!
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