Missouri State Rep. Cynthia Davis is staking out a strong position on child hunger: She's for it.

"Hunger can be a positive motivator," she notes in the latest edition of her newsletter.

More precisely, Davis is against summer feeding programs for poor kids. They are an excuse "to create an expansion of a government program," she says.

Davis, a Republican, chairs the Missouri House of Representatives Special Standing Committee on Children and Families. ...

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