gatherer

Clarice Jackson of Omaha testified Wednesday before the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee that she was wrongly told by a signature gatherer outside an Omaha store she visited that the petition effort was to support Linehan’s bill.

Heywood said he knows of at least one instance where a signature gatherer was paid $3,500 to go to Florida and work there.

Clarkson, a former state attorney general, said the signature gatherer named in the complaint, Mikaela Emswiler, paid Wellspring Ministries to rent space for her work.

When Cara Ocobock was a young child, she often wondered at the images in movies, books, comics and cartoons portraying prehistoric men and women as such: "man the hunter" with spear in hand, accompanied by "woman the gatherer" with a baby strapped to her back and a basket of crop seeds in hand.

Society evolved dramatically in the past century, away from physically demanding hunter/gatherer and agrarian societies and toward more easily accessible food.