We launched a GoFundMe in December to fight for a few small businesses abandoned by government during Covid-19 lockdowns. Today we surprised 3 owners with your generous giving. Here are their stories. 1/
Catherine Hill, owner of Miss Kitty's Lounge, evicted for being unable to pay her rent, is also fighting stage 4 cancer. But she didn't want any money to save her business, just her life. 2/
Joe Crowley, owner of @BreakawayRt1, survived a massive heart attack during lockdown, was forced to shut down his business & felt "100% abandoned." 3/
Dave Foldes, owner of @originalcronies, tried to fight the shutdown orders, lost his health permit, and is drowning in over 21k in fines. 4/
The last business owner is no longer with us. Her mother said she tried to keep her business going but couldn't take it anymore. Her family wants to sell the business but has $25k in debt to cover. Not anymore, thanks to you. 5/5
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1. If you have been paying attention you know what comes next. 1st, ask why: @realDonaldTrump up in MI, SC, GA, with margins not even close to polls, and around 11:30 eastern everything seemed to stop. Then: Con’t
2. VA called early for Biden when state was too close to call. Then, we find out fairfax county - which is the progressive county, had ‘miscounted’ and needed to drop 100k votes for Biden. Then no updates after 11:30e. He is up in WI by
300k, then nothing. 790k in PA - con’t
3. Then nothing. Fox News in absolute chaos. Called AZ for Biden, then said we may take it back, then not, while apparently what was left to count was Republican and said to be enough to at least make it close. I have never seen anything like this. Con’t
17. So yeah @BenSasse he has done something’s I am not a fan of, but as someone who didn’t support him at first (and that is putting it mildly) I remain honest enough to judge him on his entire record. He is perhaps the ONLY man in America can can and has ... con’t >
18. Stood entirely alone, surrounded by enemies, surrounded by those who took an oath to protect and defend the constitution, who are now actively engaged in destroying it and any elected president who stands in their way. Personally, I have grown sick and tired con’t >
19.... of spineless, do nothing, old, corrupt GOP politicians who are either part of the problem or too frightened to stand alone and speak up. The vast majority all Sunshine patriots. History will condemn those who did nothing but complain and whine, while others ... con’t >
1. So disappointed in @BenSasse. @realDonaldTrump has given us great judges on the lower court, 3 judges far superior than Roberts and other bogus constitutionalists as SCOTUS and one just may turn out to be another Clarence Thomas. He kicked the ass of Isis and came home ... >
2. He got us out of the disastrous Iran deal, killed their head of terror, boxed them in and is currently collapsing their economy while ALSO brokering a Mid East peace deal THAT EVERYONE SAID COULD NEVER HAPPEN, he moved our embassy to Jerusalem despite the state department >
3. Something NO president has done even though they all promised. Yes, he met with the North Korean Dictator. I hated that, but I also hated the fact that no other president did anything and NK kept gaining power. In swing how he has gotten Europe to pay their share of ....>
1. Utahans: why would you ever read this paper? @SenMikeLee is right. How can you trust a thing @DeseretNews writes if they can get this simple principle so wrong? History TEACHES Pure Democracy leads to slavery and suffering. So did ... deseret.com/indepth/2020/1…
2. So did President Lee, McKay, Benson and every Prophet, book and manual the Church ever printed - when the Church still taught the Sacred importance of this Republic. It is shameful that this ‘war’ on @SenMikeLee is allowed to continue especially ... con’t
3. ... when Senators like Harry Reid who stood with and for those who would kill infants AFTER BIRTH, let alone before are to this day - held up as a paragon of virtue ‘in good standing’. I am not his or anyone else’s judge, but it is our individual responsibility ...
1). I am feeling so humbled this week. I feel truly horrible for the things I said and believed in 2016 about @realDonaldTrump . I believed the worst politically, which he proved me wrong at almost every turn. In the most dramatic cases (life/Israel/China/authoritarian) cont
2. I expected @realDonaldTrump to take control federally at the first opportunity. Here we are in a massive crisis. Bush ‘violated the free market to save the free market.’ Trump could have violated federalism to ‘save federalism’ yet he has stood firm through COVID. Con’t
3. But let me cut to the chase. I believed he actually didn’t care about people. When @realDonaldTrump called me after my fathers death, I assigned the motive to politics - AND SAID SO. What haunts me this week is how my words must have hit his children. How ... con’t
Today, we are excited to announce that Carbide 3D will be MATCHING DONATIONS!!! They heard about the need in Detroit and want to match COVID relief donations up to $25,000! mercuryone.org/donate-covid-1…