Girl's cake sells for $10,000 at fair

[bergie321]

Source: Associated Press

LAKELAND, Fla. - A 9-year-old girl's cake brought in a lot of dough in Florida.

Cash, that is - $10,000 to be exact. A fertilizer company paid the sum for Abigail Putnam's cake at the Polk County Youth Fair. Abigail's father, Adam Putnam, is the state's agriculture commissioner. He says even she knew a cake isn't worth $10,000 and donated $9,000 of her money back to the fair.

Fair officials tell the Ledger of Lakeland that the company, Mosaic, typically buys many things from the students who sell livestock and baked goods at the annual event.

Mosaic spokesman Russell Schweiss says an employee had been given a lump sum to buy items at the fair. He says the company is investigating the pricey cake purchase.


Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2011/01/27/20110127florida-girl-cake-sells-for-10-thousand.html#comments

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A fertilizer company purchased a $10,000 cake from the Republican State Agriculture Commissioner.

How is this not considered a bribe?

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. It'd be nice to know the mechanism by which she decided to donate $9000. n/t

[Ian David]

11. I'm sure she only donated the money to the fair when someone busted them. n/t

[Kingofalldems]

2. Repubs are beyond sneaky.

I know of an extremely sneaky one.

[Joanne98]

3. So that's how they're laundering money.

[gateley]

4. Subtle. nt

[Divine Discontent]

18. Good 1, gateley! GOP-FL-of-course! Sigh..

[davidinalameda]

5. it's a fucking bribe!

wonder who blew the whistle on it

[bergie321]

6. I heard

Sarah Palin is sending her kids to Wall Street to set up a lemonade stand.

[provis99]

7. so what ingredients are in the cake?

Maybe it's a magic brownie-type of cake.

[spooky3]

8. I hope she baked a nice sturdy file into it.

[underpants]

9. at a youth fair. Damn, the hookers later that night must have been NICE for Adam

[TheWraith]

10. Yeah, I would call that a bribe.

If it's not in direct contravention of the state's ethics laws, then it NEEDS to be.

[onethatcares]

13. uhh, I hate to tell you this, but

there are no state ethic laws here in sunny floriduh, and the current legislature would like to keep it that way. Whenever anything like this comes up, like that state rep whos wife just happened to be given a 450K house in Arkansas that he knew nothing about because they keep their finances seperate, he was told to become more involved in her life.

Just google, Tallahassee District Court Taj Mahal, you'll see there is no shame at all here.

[TheWraith]

15. ...seriously?

No wonder Florida is so fucked.

[Dappleganger]

17. +100000

Wish I could upvote your post. This is just the tip of the iceberg wrt how the republicons run our fucked up state. :(

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. Let's tax the $1000 she kept to the max!

:woohoo:



/s

[Earth_First]

14. How philanthropic of him...

:eyes:

[kas125]

16. Wow, I've been making cakes for people for much, much

longer than that little girl has existed. If I added up every dime I've ever gotten from a cake, it wouldn't come anywhere near $10,000.

[hunter]

19. This wouldn't have anything to do with phosphate mining, would it?

A nasty business that, and radioactive too.

:think:

[liberal N proud]

20. Did no one think this would be obvious?

:wtf: