Solomon adheres to rice and beans

Democratic Congressional candidate Norman Solomon, of Inverness Park, has joined the “Food Stamp Challenge,” in which participants are tasked with living on the average amount—$4.50 a day and $31.50 a week—of benefits for food stamp recipients, to raise awareness about hunger and to protest Republican Congress members’ proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program and CalFresh. “There’s an out of sight, out of mind problem for politicians and the media,” said Solomon. “If we’re…