Today’s notice: Appetites. Do Republicans really have the stomach to take on corporate power when it comes to food? New staff at the NRSC is not going down well. And: Even if you didn’t ask for another helping of No Labels, you’re getting one.
The Anti-Burger King
G. William Hoagland became famous as the face of the Reagan-era proposal to cut school lunch budgets by counting condiments as vegetables. Food policy advocates hated him, Republicans liked him. The experience led him to support greater nutrition in school lunches. Food policy advocates liked him, Republicans hated him.
With Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rise, Hoagland, Sr. VP at the Bipartisan Policy Center, recently discovered that he’s a Republican again when it comes to food policy. “It seems like I began my career here, moved away from it, tried to, but I’m definitely back at it,” he told NOTUS.