Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.
More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸
Something very bizarre is happening. A major sex scandal involving an incumbent Republican congressional candidate has been unfolding for a week, with damning new details surfacing just a day before the election. Yet, the mainstream media has completely ignored it. They’ve shown zero interest in interviewing anyone involved or even asking the candidate about it. Instead, The New York Times, Politico, ABC, and The Atlantic are running puff pieces and softball interviews. When was the last time you saw the left-biased media give a Republican this kind of pass? I never have.
The comments by reporters endorsing the cold-blooded murder of a husband and father are absolutely reprehensible. No decent human being should be celebrating or justifying the execution of another person because they disagree with his business practices or politics. The normalization of this kind of rhetoric is dangerous and morally bankrupt.
What makes this even more disturbing is that some of the individuals making these statements hold official NYC press credentials. Press passes exist to provide legitimate journalists access to scenes, events, and restricted areas so they can inform the public, not so radical activists can masquerade as members of the media while promoting extremism and political violence.
Over the past several years, we have repeatedly seen individuals carrying press credentials using them during demonstrations and events to harass police officers, intimidate members of the public, interfere with law enforcement operations, and shield activist behavior behind the label of “journalism.” That undermines the credibility of legitimate reporters and creates serious public safety concerns.
After hearing from multiple reporters with decades of experience reporting in NYC, before I left office, my administration was going through the process of rewriting the rules governing NYC press credentials to strengthen standards, protect the integrity of the press corps, and prevent political activists posing as journalists from obtaining official credentials and the access that comes with them. As your own publication reported, those proposed reforms were going through the rule-making process before being scrapped by the current administration:
https://t.co/kxKKHILg4G
That decision was reckless. Official press credentials should not be handed out in a way that allows extremists to abuse them while hiding behind the credibility and protections afforded to legitimate journalism.
This needs to change, and it needs to change now.
Fun Fact of the Day: These Four Republicans Byron Donalds (FL-19), Wesley Hunt (TX-38), John James (MI-10), and Burgess Owens (UT-4) represent majority white congressional districts, and NOT one of them was allowed to join the Black Congressional Caucus.
Are they not black enough? 🤔
I’m starting to think the democrats are being very disingenuous about all this talk of black people being unable to be elected or represented, the black vote being repressed, and the “Jim Crow 2.0” bullshit. 🤨
🚨BREAKING: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s best friend just got hit with 16 felony charges for allegedly stealing $20 MILLION in taxpayer money.
This is the kind of corruption that happens when Democrats run the show — friends and donors first, taxpayers last.
LOCK HER UP!
Remember this thread, where it was pointed out that LA Mayor Karen Bass was a Castro operative?
Well, we may have to upgrade Karen Bass to actual foreign terrorist.
Reminder: this is the woman who was Vice Chair of NED.
Credit to @lamps_apple for finding this.
America’s oldest union got caught red-handed. A new report shows BLET leadership funneling nearly every political dollar to Democrats while their own members overwhelmingly backed Trump. The betrayal is documented now.