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7:59 am
Fri August 17, 2012

Akin's school-lunch funding comment draws controversy

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson / KBIA/Harvest Public Media
The annual Governor's Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair brings out politicians and their messages.

Every year, politicians descend on the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia to attend the Governor’s Ham Breakfast and woo voters – and almost every year someone says something controversial. And this year was no exception.

Congressman Todd Akin, the GOP nominee for the U-S Senate, was talking with reporters about his opposition to spending hikes for food stamps and other programs in the federal Farm Bill when he was asked what he thought about school lunch programs:

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