Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Soup Truck Panned



Advocates for the poor aren't impressed with a "Soup Truck" that's traveling around Minnesota.
A group calling itself the Minnesota Majority is using the truck as a humorous way of expressing opposing to Governor Mark Dayton's proposed tax increase for the wealthy.

Nancy Anderson, executive director of the Falls Hunger Coalition in International Falls, doesn't find it so funny.

"It just is one more way that it degrades people who are in a position of having to ask for help," says Anderson. "I think the very least we should do as advocates is to speak up and protect the dignity of people that are in that position."

Food donations are being collected as well, but opponents says that was only done as an after-thought.