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

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. 

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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.

It’s a fact that did not go unnoticed.

“Joni Ernst Tells Tale Of Time Trickle-Down Economics Spilled All Over Her Shoes,” Karoli at Crooks & Liars noted last night.

And on Facebook, former NCRM contributor J. Rudy Flesher did the math:

Meanwhile, on Twitter, folks made the connection as well.

 And there were some interesting reactions on Twitter as well:

Watch:

 

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