Joni Ernst Wore Plastic Bags Over Her Shoes Because She Grew Up Under GOP Presidents

[DonViejo]

In the GOP response to the Senator Joni Ernst President's State of the Union address, Sen. Joni Ernst lamented wearing bread bags over her shoes as a child. Here's why she had to

Freshman U.S. Senator Joni Ernst delivered the Republican response to the President's State of the Union address Tuesday night. The key takeaway from her speech seemed to be that her parents put plastic bread bags on her shoes when it rained to protect them (video below).

“You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry,” Ernst said. “But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.”

Senator Ernst, born in 1970, today is 44.

But growing up, she lived the vast majority of her life under Republican presidents, including Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes eleven times in seven of his eight years as president. Sen. Ernst was born during the Nixon administration, started school under the Ford administration, had four years under the Carter administration, and graduated high school under the Reagan administration.

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[SummerSnow]

1. Thanks Obama...wait, i mean Rethugs. rofl

so used to everyone blaming Obama.

[tanyev]

2. I'm only a few years older than her and my early grade school years were in rural Missouri.

Never, ever saw anyone wearing bread bags over the feet.

[madville]

3. She'll probably say it was when she was 7-10 years old

During the Carter Administration of course.

[TexasProgresive]

4. Read this post from 10 years ago by ScreamingMeemie

ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:48 AM
Original message
When you were a kid....Did your Mother make you wear bread bags

over your shoes inside your snow boots? I was just throwing a bread wrapper away, and this memory came to me. It would take hours (minutes even) to try and shove the whole bagged up mess into our boots. I was just wondering if this was a common practice or another of my mother's quirky rules...like putting Listerine on our scalps after washing our hair.

Read the thread here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4151354

I don't think the practice has anything to do with being hard up but with practical moms wanting to protect the shoes from the snow boots.

As for only having one pair of "good" shoes that what I had through school. My good shoes and my everyday shoes. I lived on a farm as well and I had lace up work shoes.

[hifiguy]

5. Sounds like one of those bags got put

over her head for a while. Maybe oxygen deprivation as a child is responsible for her blithering idiocy as an "adult."

[Fred Sanders]

6. The wealth trickled down enough for her to afford bread-bags.

[packman]

7. Shit, we wore bread bag wrappers too

in the Pennsylvania snow over our sneakers when we went out to play with rubber bands around the tops to hold them.. Thought nothing of it. It wasn't poverty, it was practical.

[Iris]

8. She's only 44?????

That wig. Ugh.

[PeteSelman]

9. I had no idea she was that young.

She looks 64.

Wow.

[angstlessk]

10. Hell in VA to prove how tuff you were

you simply wore shorts and knee socks out in the snow.

No bread bags for us!