Pork-Barrel. Almost Literally
By Mitch Berg
The DFL put this out on social media over the weekend:
“In partnership with the USDA?”
Isn’t there some kind of rule against using taxpayer money (or things bought with taxpayer money) to directly benefit a political party?
I mean, they put this event at their headquarters – down an obscure little side road along the river, far from where most of the hungry people are – for a reason, right?
May 25th, 2021 at 11:37 am
forget about it, its Chinatown!
May 25th, 2021 at 12:04 pm
C’mon Mitch. That’s only an issue if Republicans do it.
May 25th, 2021 at 12:38 pm
Hang on, boss, the issue now is the Republican reaction to this event.
May 25th, 2021 at 12:46 pm
Nice call jdm; Republicans pouncing in 3, 2…
May 25th, 2021 at 12:49 pm
I don’t think there’s a light-rail stop at DFL HQ.
May 25th, 2021 at 2:53 pm
I don’t believe I see any bus routes that go to the majority of the city on the other side of the river, either. Looks like we are talking some serious shades of Tammany Hall here–legal or not, it reeks.
May 25th, 2021 at 3:20 pm
A similar scene appeared in the novel, “The Ugly American.” We paid for it, they steal credit for it.
May 25th, 2021 at 3:52 pm
bike:
Yea, they don’t fix the roads over there, either. But then, that’s typical of both St. Paul and Minneapolis. I have some customers over there and I’m dodging potholes every time I’m in that area.
May 25th, 2021 at 4:35 pm
Jugs of milk sitting in the hot sun. Yep, that’s the approved storage method. No risk to the public there.
May 25th, 2021 at 8:39 pm
You know, JD, they could have used the empty cold storage morgue we paid for last year.
May 26th, 2021 at 12:25 am
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May 26th, 2021 at 8:51 am
they could have used the empty cold storage morgue
It’s been empty since election night, when Ken Martin let John Thompson out.
May 26th, 2021 at 8:51 am
A lot of food safety issues there. The milk an obvious one. If there is, in fact, fresh meat in those boxes, bacteria are probably starting to multiply.
May 26th, 2021 at 10:34 am
It would be poetic justice if there was a little epidemic of food poisoning among the “beneficiaries” of the USDA program hijacked by the DFL. Not that I wish that on anybody, but it would be poetic justice. You could discredit both the DFL and the USDA in one fell swoop.