Cleveland pie queen Endia Eason, 91, treated President Obama and his whole staff to 23 delicious, home-baked pies when he visited her home on Wednesday, and he praised the sweet potato pie she gave him during his remarks at Shaker Heights High School after the meeting — where he announced his recess appointment of Richard Cordray as chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Cordray himself was there for the 20-minute meet-and-greet with Eason, along with Eason’s husband, William, and Deonna Kirkpatrick, communications director for Empowering and Strengthening Ohio’s People, a housing non-profit that helped the Easons save their own home from foreclosure after they landed $80,000 in debt by an “unscrupulous” mortgage broker. “He said he doesn’t want hard-working Americans like us getting taken for a ride,” Endia Eason said of the president after their meeting. “I just wish he had been here years ago.”
(h/t Obama Foodarama)
