A brief follow up on the Lunchbox Police story I posted a day ago.
From the Carolina Journal:
RALEIGH — Three days after a Carolina Journal report on the plight of a 4-year-old preschooler and her lunch made national headlines, the identity of the person who told the youngster her homemade lunch was not nutritious remains unknown.
Of the several government agencies who have been named in the controversy — the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Division of Child Development and Early Education at the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, Hoke County schools, and the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — none will admit that it was responsible for employing or contracting with the person who was inspecting preschoolers’ lunches at West Hoke Elementary School in late January.
This story has North Carolinian parents and non-parents alike hopping mad. Good. They should be. This is the last straw for a lot of us. It has not gone unnoticed by elected officials either, who have sent a bipartisan letter to the USDA Agriculture Secretary, Carolina Journal Reports:
WASHINGTON — The national uproar over a 4-year-old’s recent encounter with a preschool lunch monitor at a Hoke County elementary school has prompted two members of the N.C. congressional delegation to fire off a letter expressing “strong concern” to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
“This unfortunate and absolutely unnecessary event exemplifies the very definition of ‘government overreach’ and further perpetuates a growing reason of why the American people continue to hold less and less faith in our government,” writes U.S. Rep. Larry Kissell, D-8th District, in the letter co-signed by Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-2nd District. Kissell represents the district in which the incident took place.
The over-reach is beyond the pale and the people of NC are clearly not going to sit still any longer for any more of this Orwellian control-freak garbage. This isn’t China. Someone make sure they tweet this to @TruthTeam2012 or #AttackWatch. We need to make sure our overlords realize they have a rebellion on their hands.
