Republican state Sen. Steve Drazkowski made the regrettable comments during a Senate Floor Session on Tuesday.
A Minnesota lawmaker is in hot water after he argued against a bill to provide free meals for school children impacted by food insecurity by stating that he has “yet to meet” someone suffering from hunger.during a Tuesday Senate Floor Session on Senate Bill 12, which would allocate $420 million over two years to provide universal school breakfasts and lunches.
He went on to call the bill “basically fraud” and branded the measure “pure socialism” for trying to manage what children eat.
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