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Search results for "We had record distributions in my county in Wyoming of Meals on Wheels"

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Ann McLane Kuster stated on June 05, 2017 in a meeting with nonprofit leaders:
For 22 percent of N.H. Meals on Wheels recipients, the delivery driver is "the only human contact in their life from week to week."
By Nick Reid• June 9, 2017
Claire McCaskill stated on April 14, 2017 in a town hall:
"If Donald Trump would stay home from Mar-a-Lago one weekend, it would pay the entire meals on wheels budget for the state of Missouri for almost two years."  
By Grace Hase• May 23, 2017
Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island stated on April 18, 2013 in a fundraising letter:
"Half of all hospitalized seniors are suffering from malnutrition so severe that it either caused their illness or it prevents them from getting better."
By Michael McKinney• May 26, 2013
Hank Gilbert stated on March 01, 2010 in a press release:
"Todd Staples recently tried to woo his supporters and right-wing base by suggesting the Agriculture Commission cut programs intended to feed the elderly and disabled, many of whom are veterans."
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• March 9, 2010
Dan Micciche stated on November 04, 2012 in an opinion article in the Dallas Morning News.:
"The poverty level in" the Dallas school district "is one of the highest in the country, higher than New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Detroit and Newark."
By W. Gardner Selby• December 5, 2012
Marc Butler stated on March 01, 2017 in a press conference to repeal the SAFE Act:
"We have counties where there have been one arrest under the SAFE Act. It indicates there's not a whole lot of interest in enforcing this in our upstate counties."
By Dan Clark• March 24, 2017
Jack Seiler stated on November 05, 2014 in a news release:
"No one was taken into custody" for feeding the homeless.
By Amy Sherman• November 17, 2014
Lloyd Doggett stated on September 21, 2011 in a speech delivered to U.S. House of Representatives.:
Says the main Central Texas food bank is delivering 50 percent more food to the poor than three years ago.
By Sue Owen• November 1, 2011
Donald Trump stated on May 14, 2020 in a speech:
“You have areas of Pennsylvania that are barely affected and [the governor wants] to keep them closed.”
By Jessica Calefati• May 18, 2020
Steve Adler stated on February 14, 2017 in an open letter to Austin residents:
"Local authorities in 43 states refused to honor more than 16,000 detainer requests from ICE from October 2013 to December 2015. Only in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Vermont and Wyoming did local officials honor all requests, and detainers are relatively rare in those states."
By W. Gardner Selby• February 23, 2017
Kinky Friedman stated on February 12, 2010 in a response to League of Women Voters of Texas.:
"The current (agriculture) commissioner allowed tainted beef to be sent to school cafeterias."
By W. Gardner Selby• February 19, 2010
Hillary Clinton stated on April 30, 2008 in South Bend, Ind.:
Tax rates were significantly higher "in the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• May 2, 2008
Facebook posts stated on February 04, 2018 in a Facebook post:
"The Clinton Foundation folded.”
By Tom Kertscher• February 11, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene stated on March 25, 2025 in a Newsmax interview:
On PBS, "they now have drag queen storytime instead of good old ‘Sesame Street.’"
By Grace Abels• April 1, 2025
Facebook posts stated on July 20, 2013 in a Facebook post:
The very first meal on the surface of the moon was the Holy Communion.
By Janel Davis• September 16, 2013
New Jersey Democratic State Committee stated on June 02, 2011 in a press release:
Gov. Chris Christie owes the state money "for amenities like extra Gorgonzola cheese for his staff on these trips."
By Bill Wichert• July 3, 2011
Hannah Kelly stated on January 29, 2019 in an education budget hearing at the Missouri state capitol:
"The schools in my district don't have a kitchen."
By Gaëlle Fournier• March 14, 2019
Mike Dudgeon stated on November 18, 2014 in newspaper article:
Thirty-eight states -- Georgia not included -- have appointed, rather than elected, state school superintendents.
By Nancy Badertscher• December 6, 2014
Donald Trump stated on January 04, 2018 in a tweet:
"Mostly Democrat states refused to hand over data" that could show election fraud.
By Amy Sherman• January 5, 2018
Levar Stoney stated on March 06, 2019 in :
On tax increases.
By Warren Fiske• March 19, 2019

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