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Michelle Obama fights GOP on school lunch rules

July 6, 2014 By Editorial Staff

First ladies typically avoid getting into public scraps, but Michelle Obama has jumped into perhaps her biggest battle yet. She’s fighting a House Republican effort to soften a central part of her prized anti-childhood obesity campaign and she says she’s ready “to fight until the bitter end.”

Michelle Obama

“Remember a few years ago when Congress declared that the sauce on a slice of pizza should count as a vegetable in school lunches?” she wrote in The New York Times. “You don’t have to be a nutritionist to know that this doesn’t make much sense. Yet we’re seeing the same thing happening again with these new efforts to lower nutrition standards in our schools.”

Mrs. Obama lobbied largely behind the scenes four years ago for the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which requires more fruit, vegetables and whole grains in school meals, along with less sodium, sugar and fat. It was a major achievement, the first update to school lunch rules in decades designed to make school meals more nutritious.

The School Nutrition Association, an industry-backed group that represents school cafeteria workers and originally supported the standards, has now turned against them. The association says it fully supports getting kids to eat healthier but says many districts are losing money because students aren’t buying the healthier lunches.

A House bill to fund the Agriculture Department next year would give districts a chance to apply to skip the requirements for one year. Rep. Robert Aderholt of Alabama, the Republican author of that measure, said the lunch rules go too far and came too fast for school districts to handle.

The White House has threatened to veto the House bill. The Senate version does not include the one-year waiver.

via Associated Press

Filed Under: Advice & Education Tagged With: GOP, Michelle Obama, school lunch

GOP seems ready to move along with other issues

May 10, 2012 By Editorial Staff

House Speaker John A. Boehner (R) showed little interest in making an election-year debate out of President Obama’s support for marriage equality. Republican leaders have tried to keep their robust conservative flank in Congress focused on economic issues that are most important to voters, rather than the social issues that have defined the party in the past. Asked if a “same-sex” marriage plank should be included in the Democratic Party platform, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the majority leader, was quick to say: “I’m sure it will be.”

[WPHL]

Filed Under: Editor's Pick, News & Politics Tagged With: GOP, John Boehner, Republican

Wealthy Republican donors are providing bulk of money in NY push for marriage equality

May 14, 2011 By Editorial Staff

Newly recruited donors for marriage equality in New York happen to be wealthy donors to the Republican party. This group believes that permitting same-sex marriage is consistent with conservative principles of personal liberty and small government. As a matter of fact, as GLBT activists push for marriage equality, the bulk of their money is coming from this group of conservative financiers to the GOP. They’ve donated about $1 million in recent weeks to a new coalition of gay rights organizations. The donors represent some of New York’s wealthiest and most politically active figures and include Paul E. Singer, a hedge fund manager and top-tier Republican donor, as well as two other financiers, Steven A. Cohen and Clifford S. Asness. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has given at least $100,000 of his own money to the cause.

[via NYTimes.com]

Filed Under: Community Support, Editor's Pick Tagged With: GOP, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York

Marriage equality gains GOP support

August 29, 2010 By Editorial Staff

A growing number of Republicans support marriage equality. Pundits say the shift is a result of GOP power players focusing the party’s attention on jobs and the economy. A renewed focus on economics and the “tea party” movement have overcome the Republican party.

Also, according to the Washington Post, a solid majority of adults younger than 30 support the right of same-sex couples to legally marry. Some surveys show that support for same-sex marriage is growing even among young evangelical Christians.

According to a 2008 study by the liberal-leaning group Faith in Public Life, young white evangelicals are more than twice as likely as older evangelicals to say that gay couples should be allowed to marry.

Filed Under: Editor's Pick, News & Politics Tagged With: GOP, Republicans


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