This supplement company doesn’t want anyone, especially school kids, to go hungry
Lee Benson: "When Cheryl Mounteer shows up at Sam’s Club, it’s a good idea not to get behind her in line.
"She’s the one with the two huge box trucks parked outside and multiple carts stacked high with thousands of packets of oatmeal, juice cups, fruit snacks, granola bars, crackers, applesauce and, on average, about 24,000 boxes of Easy Mac.
"It’s not because she’s some kind of extravagant prepper, or she has the world’s largest family, or an abnormal fondness for Easy Mac.
"It’s because Cheryl is the director of Operation Conquer Hunger — and it’s her job to regularly purchase enough food so that hungry kids don’t leave school Friday afternoon with little to nothing to eat over the weekend.
"The Operation Conquer Hunger campaign began 10 years ago when a man named Trevor Farnes started a company that sells nutritional supplements and outdoor gear called MTN OPS."
Samuel Benson: "Connelly isn’t a pastor. He’s not a big-money donor. Aside from a stint as the Republican Party chair in South Carolina, he’s never held elected office. But within his nonprofit organization Faith Wins, Connelly has amassed a following of some 16,000 evangelical pastors, who look to him as a mentor as they navigate political issues.
"He speaks with an assuredness — a charm. And with conviction. To them, Connelly is the nonpartisan guide equipped to help them combine their faith with their politics. All he asks in return is they register their congregants to vote and teach them to vote 'Biblical values.' Faith Wins has pastors involved in all 50 states, though the highest concentrations are in early-voting states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina."
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