On Friday, as SNAP benefits were being illegally withheld by the Trump administration, causing families to panic and sending our food banks into a scramble, Kentucky’s Republican big wigs were here in Lawrenceburg (Anderson County) at Joe Denny’s annual bean soup gathering for the local good ol’ boys club.
600,000 Kentuckians depend on SNAP to eat.
This includes 800+ households in Anderson County.
Imagine being this boneheaded and completely tone deaf.
It is notable that Congressmen Andy Barr and Jamie Comer were able to be here because they are on vacation from Congress, since House Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to call them into session. They are also still getting paychecks, they have government health insurance, and it looks like they are using their time during the government shutdown to campaign.
What a world!
Rep. Kim King posted a group photo which also included, from the left, Lawrenceburg City Councilman Steve Votaw (rumored to be running for mayor), Anderson County Attorney Robert Wiedo, and Anderson County Judge Executive Orbrey Gritton.
Some will argue that it’s just Joe Denny and that he has his bean soup gathering every year and that it’s no big deal, yada yada yada. But this is the same Joe Denny who, during primary election season in 2022, had a doormat in his shop — where the annual bean soup gathering is held — with a female magistrate’s face on it, and the doormat kerfuffle came to a head during a Fiscal Court meeting, chaired by Judge Gritton.
You really couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried.
It’s now 2025.
More than 800 Anderson County households depend on SNAP, which is being illegally withheld because the president — the leader of the Republican Party — is using our most vulnerable citizens as bargaining chip.
Meanwhile, here in small town Kentucky, are our local Republican good ol’ boys are getting together at Joe Denny’s like they do every year to fill their bellies, shoot the bull and, this year, press the flesh and take pictures with the muckety-mucks in Congress who haven’t put in a real day’s work in at least a month and a half.
It’s rich, ain’t it.
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