Several democrats, including former Rep. Ann Mah, joined Monday for a free milk distribution at Dillons at S.E. 29th and California. They gave 100 gallons of milk to families with kids, and Dillons matched the giveaway with another 100 free gallons.
Local Democrats and Dillons employees stood outside the grocery chain's 2010 S.E. 29th location Monday morning, handing out free jugs of milk to customers who generally seemed pleasantly surprised to receive them.
"It's a great deal," Dianne Fulton said, pushing a cart with a few bags of groceries out to the parking lot.
Her husband Glenn Fulton, balancing a sheet cake in one hand and holding a gallon of whole milk in the other, agreed.
"Cake and free milk," he said. "It doesn't get much better."
Former Rep. Ann Mah helped organize Monday's milk giveaway, saying she was spurred by the federal government shutdown and a serious of policy decisions made by the Republican-led Legislature and Gov. Sam Brownback's administration, all of which she believes will hit low-income families hardest.
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