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Convicted Drug Dealer Tries To Use EBT Card To Post Bail
http://newsone.com ^ | 04/15/2012 | Kirsten West Savali

Posted on 04/15/2012 11:03:31 AM PDT by massmike

Convicted drug dealer Kimball Clark, 45, was arrested for new drug-related charges and attempted to use cash from his EBT card to post bail, reports the Boston Herald.

Police officers overheard him using his one phone call to ask an unidentified person to “get my EBT card and go to the ATM and get the money to bail me out, get me outta here tonight,” according to the police report.

Conservatives, such as state Rep. Shaunna O’Connell, have longed attempted to minimize welfare abuse — with heavy pushback from colleagues — and she feels vindicated by Clark’s actions:

It’s another outrage,” she said, “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.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: sonofobama; sourcetitlenoturl

Another Obama "son"?

1 posted on 04/15/2012 11:03:39 AM PDT by massmike
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To: massmike
Yup,my home state....home of Kimball Clark and *TWO* of Osama Obama's illegal alien relatives.
2 posted on 04/15/2012 11:07:18 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Unlike Mrs Obama,I've Been Proud Of This Country My *Entire* Life!)
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To: massmike
I've changed my mind about drug laws and agree now with Milton Friedman. I believe more people are harmed and killed with drug laws than without drug laws.

It would be a miracle if enough people saw this "lesser evil" reason to take down these laws.

3 posted on 04/15/2012 11:13:30 AM PDT by PapaNew
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To: massmike

If I had a convicted drug dealing son, he would look like Kimball Clark.


4 posted on 04/15/2012 11:14:27 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I did not see it in my rearview mirror.)
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To: Gay State Conservative; massmike
What's Next?
5 posted on 04/15/2012 11:16:42 AM PDT by OddLane (If Lionel Hutz and Guy Smiley had a lovechild together, his name would be "Mitt Romney." -KAJ)
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To: massmike

And in today’s Boston Herald, a Dem. state rep. who is pushing for EBT reform (yes I know, far fetched) had someone offer him his EBT card for 50 cents on the dollar.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2872366/posts

>>Holmes was at the Roxbury Stop & Shop by Grove Hall last Sunday when someone approached him asking if he wanted to buy the man’s EBT card. “His price was 50 cents on the dollar,” Holmes said. “It’s not a surprise to me.”


6 posted on 04/15/2012 11:22:05 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: massmike

The government should outsource the job of preventing EBT card abuse and fraud to one of the major commercial credit card issuers, like Citi or Amex.

Their technology tracks spending for every cardholder, can restrict access to individual merchants and designated merchant categories, can report data in a thousand ways, and integrates completely into the organization accounting system.

The contract award should have a term of five years, after which time the contract should be put out to bid with all the relevant card program providers.

That this hasn’t been done is completely amazing to me.


7 posted on 04/15/2012 11:22:25 AM PDT by Maceman (Liberals' only problem with American slavery is that the slaves were privately owned.)
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To: massmike

Why do I get the feeling his mama was looking at a Kotex box when naming him?


8 posted on 04/15/2012 11:40:23 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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What’s the problem? Doesn’t the B of EBT stand for Bail? Everclear, Bail, Tobacco?


9 posted on 04/15/2012 1:58:31 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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