welfare = bail $

RACER X · 04-12-2012, 02:42 PM

http://bostonherald.com/news/regiona...buse_runs_deep

Pols: Welfare abuse runs deep
By John Zaremba and Chris Cassidy
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - Updated 3 hours ago

A convicted drug dealer — who cops said wanted to use cash from his taxpayer-funded EBT card to post bail — is the new face of welfare abuse, according to tough-minded lawmakers who are pushing the reform-resistant Patrick administration for a crackdown.

Kimball Clark, 45, was locked up Friday on drug-dealing charges — again — when he was overheard using his one phone call to ask the person on the other end of the line to “get my EBT card and go to the ATM and get the money to bail me out, get me outa here tonight,” according to a Boston police report.

“It’s another outrage,” said state Rep. Shaunna O’Connell (R-Taunton), a member of the EBT Task Force who criticized the group for failing to push tough restrictions on the use of the controversial cards. “When we were on the EBT Card Commission, I fought to get bail bondsmen on that list of places where people could not use their EBT cards. They fought me on it and told me people can’t use their EBT cards in that way.”

Beacon Hill was forced to mull reforms after the Herald reported people were spending welfare cash on booze, cigarettes and scratch cards.

“Obviously the Department of Transitional Assistance has no idea how people use these cards and how the cards

askmrjesus · 04-12-2012, 05:12 PM

If my parents named me Shaunna, I be fucking outraged too.

JC

Particle Man · 04-13-2012, 01:14 PM

Shocking.

askmrjesus · 04-13-2012, 01:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Particle Man

Shocking.

BREAKING NEWS!

Drug dealers do illegal shit!

JC

Particle Man · 04-13-2012, 01:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

BREAKING NEWS!

Drug dealers do illegal shit!

JC

I know, right?

Papa_Complex · 04-16-2012, 12:58 PM

SHHHHH! If you tell that to voters, you'll kill the election platforms of 90% of the politicians out there!!

Rangerscott · 04-16-2012, 08:23 PM

Nothing new. Welfare people trade money off their welfare cards all the time.

nhgunnut · 04-17-2012, 02:24 PM

I am sitting in a Community Corrections Center in MA where I work as I type this. This is not the exception or the extreme as some would have you think. These parasites are sucking the life out of MA (Grew Up here but Moved to NH) The Entitlement Mandate that is here MA i why the rest of New England call the MA the State of Despair.

Rangerscott · 04-17-2012, 09:47 PM

Why work when the gov OWES YOU!

04-12-2012, 02:42 PM	#1
RACER X AMA Supersport Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Richmond, Tx Moto: '10 Tuono Factory Posts: 4,569	welfare = bail $ http://bostonherald.com/news/regiona...buse_runs_deep Pols: Welfare abuse runs deep By John Zaremba and Chris Cassidy Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - Updated 3 hours ago A convicted drug dealer — who cops said wanted to use cash from his taxpayer-funded EBT card to post bail — is the new face of welfare abuse, according to tough-minded lawmakers who are pushing the reform-resistant Patrick administration for a crackdown. Kimball Clark, 45, was locked up Friday on drug-dealing charges — again — when he was overheard using his one phone call to ask the person on the other end of the line to “get my EBT card and go to the ATM and get the money to bail me out, get me outa here tonight,” according to a Boston police report. “It’s another outrage,” said state Rep. Shaunna O’Connell (R-Taunton), a member of the EBT Task Force who criticized the group for failing to push tough restrictions on the use of the controversial cards. “When we were on the EBT Card Commission, I fought to get bail bondsmen on that list of places where people could not use their EBT cards. They fought me on it and told me people can’t use their EBT cards in that way.” Beacon Hill was forced to mull reforms after the Herald reported people were spending welfare cash on booze, cigarettes and scratch cards. “Obviously the Department of Transitional Assistance has no idea how people use these cards and how the cards __________________ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ 2014 GROM! 181cc of FURY 2010 Aprilia Tuono Factory - SOLD 2009 SFV Gladius - SOLD 2008 Hayabusa - SOLD.

04-13-2012, 01:14 PM	#3
Particle Man Custom User Title Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Central NY Moto: 2003 SV650S Posts: 14,959	Shocking. __________________ I'm not "fat." I'm "Enlarged to show texture." Handle every stressful situation like a DOG: If you can't eat it or hump it, pi$$ on it & walk away.

04-16-2012, 12:58 PM	#6
Papa_Complex Nomadic Tribesman Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Brampton, Canada Moto: '09 ER-6n Posts: 11,150	SHHHHH! If you tell that to voters, you'll kill the election platforms of 90% of the politicians out there!! __________________ "Everything's better with pirates." - Lodge, "Dorkness Rising" http://www.morallyambiguous.net/

04-17-2012, 02:24 PM	#8
nhgunnut gun totin redneck Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: South West New Hampshire Moto: turbo busa 999 Duc Goldwing & Victory Posts: 1,130	I am sitting in a Community Corrections Center in MA where I work as I type this. This is not the exception or the extreme as some would have you think. These parasites are sucking the life out of MA (Grew Up here but Moved to NH) The Entitlement Mandate that is here MA i why the rest of New England call the MA the State of Despair. __________________ Evolution requires a body count, Count or be Counted!

04-16-2012, 08:23 PM	#7
Rangerscott Viff6N Mutated Warrior Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Texas Moto: '01 Honda VFR 800 & '09 ER-6N Posts: 8,704	Nothing new. Welfare people trade money off their welfare cards all the time.

04-17-2012, 09:47 PM	#9
Rangerscott Viff6N Mutated Warrior Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Texas Moto: '01 Honda VFR 800 & '09 ER-6N Posts: 8,704	Why work when the gov OWES YOU!