Baker Who Refused EBT at Braintree Farmers Market Starts Political Group

The East Walpole baker who last summer started a national conversation when she refused to accept EBT cards for payment at the Braintree Farmers Market has started a fiscally conservative political initiative.

Andrea Taber, the owner of Ever So Humble Pie Co., founded the Common Sense Restoration Project, drawing 75 people to an opening meeting at her bakery a few weeks ago, according to the Boston Herald.

The paper reports:

"Four days after the Herald story broke last August, Taber returned to the Braintree Farmers Market to find a line stretching out into the parking lot for her whoopie pies. Customers carrying copies of her front-page Herald photo even asked for her autograph.
"Her story was picked up on the Drudge Report and she was featured on Fox News shows with Mike Huckabee and Neil Cavuto. She received more than 2,000 emails — only 1 percent were “hateful,” she said."

Ever So Humble Pie Co. will not be at the farmers market in Braintree this season, according to the Herald. For the complete story, go to http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/03/baker_s_got_finger_in_political_pie

In a statement provided to Braintree Patch last summer, Sustainable Braintree, which hosts the farmers market each Saturday at Braintree Town Hall, said in part:

"Andrea Taber's frustration with the EBT program is directed at the US Department of Agriculture and the organizations that dictate what EBT benefits can and cannot be used for.  Sustainable Braintree has no control, nor any opinion, over the EBT program."