Leave it to the DNC to rally Democrats over evil Republicans forcing their pizza on the poor American schoolchildren. In an email to supporters, the DNC’s Brad Woodhouse wrote the following.
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School lunches are hard to change — and it doesn’t take a doozy like “pizza is a vegetable” to know that the corporate interests have more money and more Washington lobbyists than kids do. That’s why pizza was classified as a vegetable during the Bush years. The Obama administration made that common-sense change, but the Republican Congress wants to take us back to the money-for-influence status quo.
If you think this is as ridiculous as we do, tell the GOP that it’s time they started picking real people over corporations (and real vegetables over slices of pizza, for that matter):
It is ridiculous that the federal government decides what is served in school lunches, but I would guess that pizza for lunch is a fairly popular issue with kids. Perhaps Republicans need to start an educational campaign. “John Boehner: He saved pizza for the children.”
