Call Animal Control, We’ve Got Poverty Again

South Carolina’s Lt. Governor, Andre Bauer, a candidate for the state’s top office, wants to lead the discussion about how to address poverty. He’s off to a bad start.

“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals,” Bauer told a Greenville-area crowd. “You know why? Because they breed. “You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. And so what you’ve got to do is you’ve got to curtail that type of behavior. They don’t know any better.”

It is hard to make the current governor look good given the 2009 he had. Bauer got close with this comment.

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