SC Politician compares poor people to Feeding Stray Animals

     At a town hall meeting last Thursday, South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer compared people getting government assistants to stray animals. "My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. 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."
     The negative reaction so far seems to be mainly from Democrats. However, Bauer has a large following among the religious Republican base. For his part, Bauer says that he doesn't regret his words except maybe the stray animals part. Bauer is now running for the governorship against 8 other people.

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