SALEM, Ore. – If Gov. Ted Kulongoski seems a little sluggish this week, he’s got an excuse: he couldn’t afford coffee.
In fact, the Democratic governor couldn’t afford much of anything during a trip to a Salem-area grocery store on Tuesday, where he had exactly $21 to buy a week’s worth of food — the same amount that the state’s average food stamp recipient spends weekly on groceries.
Kulongoski is taking the weeklong challenge to raise awareness about the difficulty of feeding a family on a food stamp budget.
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can we put some republikkkans on this? they REALLY need to learn.
Ted has gone to every funeral of every Oregon soldier who has died in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He is, quietly, a very badass guv.