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cluelessness, Cynthia Davis, Daily Star-Journal, Denny Hoskins, General Assembly, missouri, Warrensburg
Missouri State Representative Cynthia “Are there no prisons? Are there no work houses?” Davis (r) continues to have a not so good, very bad month. Some of our previous coverage:
Missouri State Rep. Cynthia Davis (r – Pluto): There IS such a thing as a free lunch
Missouri State Representative Cynthia Davis (r): the Mozart of cluelessness
An unsigned lead editorial in the dead trees edition of today’s Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal takes Representative Davis to task for her views on the summer meals program:
Rep. Davis shows no understanding of poor
Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O’Fallon, in a newsletter states “hunger can be a positive motivator” for getting people to find jobs.
Davis must never have heard of Abraham Maslow. In 1943, he wrote “A Theory of Human Motivation.” He articulated ideas that “oft were thought but ne’er so well expressed.” In making his point about why humans behave in basic ways, he produced what became known as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. At the base of his pyramid are a person’s most basic needs – to breathe, to drink, to eat… To be plain, to eat is to live. Food is for life, not for motivation.
Davis no doubt did not realize that motivation is best described as an award from peers, a bonus from the boss, a kiss from a spouse, a hug from a child. She must have missed Maslow’s lessons while living in her nice suburban St. Louis home, far from those low-income people in the big cities who so need her to provide proper motivation…
…May Davis never know hunger, but if ever she does, she can dine on that foot in her mouth.
Ouch. That’s gonna leave a mark. Go. Read the whole thing.
Now, the question for Representative Denny Hoskins (r – noun, verb, CPA) is, since your home town paper stated, “…for Davis to head the House Special Standing Committee on Children and Families seems about as useful to those children and families as putting Trick “Pass Me the Blunt and Let Me Roll It” Daddy in charge of the state’s drug prevention programs…”, should she continue in that House leadership role? We’d certainly like to know if you endorse her views and her chairmanship of that committee, Representative Hoskins.
…Representative Mike McGhee (r):
Uh, if you don’t know the “full gist” of the “current allegations” then how would you know what we’re witnessing about them? Just asking.
Critical thinking – it’s not for republican legislators anymore.
Davis bears none of the hallmarks of growing up in comfort or security, suburban or otherwise. Her dysfunction- willful ignorance-reads like a desperate survival mechanism, not arrogance. This is a damaged, fear-driven person, not a privileged bully like Cunningham (Palin model) but a traumatized case of arrested development (Gingrich model)
To go completely out on a limb, can Davis and the voters of her district be called codependents? Perpetuating a false comfort zone of fundamentalism and ignorance? Proper diagnosis leads to effective treatment and cure.
Sorry to get so psychoanalytical about it but how else to explain psycho behavior?-
Also reminds us to have the courage to monitor our own comfort zones. We’re all human.
Making a martyr of Davis would be a dumb trap to fall into. There are so many others pretty much like her. Giving the wingnuts a new myth to buy into would be more Obaman.
Several days ago I saw my Representative, Denny “I don’t know why I voted for the unFair Tax before I voted against it” Hoskins in a parking lot.
I so wanted to go up to him and ask his view on whether Davis should remain in a leadership position of his caucus. I decided not to, but don’t worry. In a more appropriate setting, I will (Denny, I’m talking to you).
Oh! it was beautiful.
First he notes that Jesus said that what I’m hungry he was told, “Get a job.”
And, he urges us in Missouri if we see Davis eating we need to take her food away, so can she remain motivated.