Conservatives welcome. Libs & RINOs go away. It's all of you destroying the society and conservatives must no longer appease you!
They’re nothing if not hypocrites.
3 of the House managers voted NO to providing aid to the Ukraine. @EliseStefanik lists who they are….
Who’s surprised? #ShamImpeachment pic.twitter.com/AIFnNqUC3V
— Femme Fatale (@RealBasedMAGA) January 24, 2020
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Samuel Corum / Getty ImagesJay Sekulow, a member of President Donald Trump’s defense team, speaks to journalists in the Senate subway during a short recess in the Senate impeachment trial of Trump on Jan. 24, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images)
Democrats who use comments from Founding Father Alexander Hamilton to buttress their attacks on President Donald Trump are taking Hamilton’s words out of context, according to one of Trump’s attorneys.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff of California and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York have each used Hamilton’s words during Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.
“They did not intend for the power of impeachment to be used frequently or as a matter of policy… but they put it in the constitution for a reason”
House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, opening the Trump #ImpeachmentTrial, quotes Alexander Hamiltonhttps://t.co/WgILTa4g5B pic.twitter.com/n2T1I2IUmO
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 22, 2020
During Jerry Nadler’s opening remarks at the impeachment trial, he referenced Alexander Hamilton’s 1792 letter to George Washington but the graphic he used said it was written in 1972 pic.twitter.com/peGDLX7nlK
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 23, 2020
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Hamilton, then the treasury secretary, was writing to then-President George Washington in 1792 on a variety of issues, including the possibility that America could become a monarchy, when he wrote the words currently being cited by the Democrats.
“When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits — despotic in his ordinary demeanor — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day — It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind,’” Hamilton wrote.
Using the quote was “inapplicable and completely out of place,” Sekulow told reporters Thursday, according to The Washington Post.
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Democrats “used this famous quote from Alexander Hamilton about impeachment,” Sekulow said, as Fox News reported.
“It wasn’t about impeachment. It was a letter regarding policy disputes between Hamilton and Washington 5 years after the Constitution was adopted.”
“So they’re not only taking the wrong law, they’re taking the wrong quotes from the Founding Fathers,” he said.
“It would be really appropriate if they cited the right provisions and what the Founding Fathers were actually talking about,” Sekulow added.
Hamilton has been quoted by Republicans as well:
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So Adam Schift admits his actions are meant to void the votes of millions of American voters because he doesn’t like their choice. Alexander Hamilton warned about political parties weaponizing Impeachment and here we have it! https://t.co/iFtbcvRbLV
— Greg Murphy (@RepGregMurphy) January 23, 2020
Democrats have weaponized (and trampled on) the Constitution!
Our Founding Fathers would be appalled:
HAMILTON: called impeachment “the greatest danger” when decided “by the comparative strength of parties, than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt”
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) January 22, 2020
We’re in the middle of what Alexander Hamilton called “the greatest danger”—the danger a partisan impeachment poses for our country.
This #ShamImpeachment is the real abuse of power.
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) January 23, 2020
In a Jan. 7 Op-Ed for Fox News, Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah wrote, “In Federalist 66, Alexander Hamilton argued that dividing the power of impeachment and removal between the House and Representatives and the Senate would ‘guard against the danger of persecution, from the prevalency of a factious spirit’ in either chamber.”
“Considering how deeply divided our nation is, there can be little doubt that a ‘factious spirit’ is driving this impeachment,” Lee wrote.
“It was both prescient and providential that our founding fathers saw fit to guard against this by placing the final say on conviction and removal not in the hands of the House of Representatives, a court, some specialized tribunal, or even a jury, but in the Senate.”
Elsewhere in his Op-Ed, Lee noted that impeachment was inextricably linked to politics.
“[T]he authors of the Constitution knew impeachment — for good or ill — was an inherently political act,” he wrote.
“James Wilson, one of the nation’s first Supreme Court justices and one of the principal architects of the Constitution, described impeachment as “confined to political characters, to political crimes and misdemeanors, and to political punishments.”
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Americans are tuning out the impeachment hearings in droves, while President Trump’s job approval rating hits all new highs.
Let’s start with the funniest part first…
LOL:
Impeachment Audience Shrinks as First Week of Trial Winds Down
As House Democrats make their impeachment case against President Donald Trump, Americans are increasingly tuning out.
TV ratings of the proceedings slipped on Thursday afternoon, marking the second straight day of declines. ABC, NBC and CBS collectively drew about 3.8 million viewers, according to Nielsen data shared by Fox Corp., down more than 20% from the trial’s first day on Tuesday.
Fox News, CNN and MSNBC attracted about 4 million viewers together, a 32% plunge from Tuesday.
According to TV Newser, a total of 7.83 million tuned in on Thursday, a drop of 12 percent from Wednesday and 29 percent from Tuesday, which was opening day.
Naturally, far-left CNN attracted fewer viewers than any of the other six networks covering impeachment. Get this… CNN was only able to attract an average of 991,000 viewers. The President of the United States is on trial and CNNLOL can’t even average a million viewers.
Fox News beat everyone, with 1.531 million viewers.
Basically, cable news ratings are normal, or essentially what they are when the president is not on trial, which tells you just how disinterested the American public is.
And if that doesn’t tell you how bored real Americans are by impeachment, people aren’t even showing up in person to watch this “historic event.”
Try not to laugh, but “The Senate spectator gallery was at least half-empty throughout the first week of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial,” reports the New York Post.
Here’s the bottom line…
A Gallup poll taken at the time showed 71 percent of the public watched Nixon’s Watergate hearings. A new Emerson polls shows “about one-third of voters (33%) are watching almost all or a lot of the impeachment trial, while 36% are watching hardly any or none of the trial. 31% said they are watching some of it.” But even that’s a lie. The ratings prove it. If 33 percent were, in fact, watching almost or all of the trial, ratings would be ten times higher. People are just saying they are watching; then, they obviously are not.
Keep in mind that these evermore dismal TV ratings are coming after the media elite attempted to juice interest in the trial with all that fake gushing over Pencil Neck’s opening statements on Wednesday.
CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin, who really should know better, told all 14 people who watch CNN that Adam Schiff’s summation was so perfect, so sexy, so orgasmic, Toobin found himself pregnant with Schiff’s love child and having contractions right there on the CNN set — or words to that effect.
The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin said that after Schiff finished off his statement, she smoked a Lucky, rolled over, and fell into the deepest and most satisfying sleep of her spinster life — or words to that effect.
It was all bullshit, of course, all a gaslighting campaign to con the public into tuning in the next day. But because the media have no credibility, viewership crashed by double digits the next day and by nearly a third on Thursday.
Meanwhile, in the real world…
Trump’s job approval rating just hit a new high in, of all places, a far-left Washington Post poll.
Among registered voters, Trump enjoys 47 percent support, with 50 percent disapproving.
Trump sits at about even with independents: 47 percent approve, 48 percent disapprove.
A blazing 58 percent of registered voters approve of the job Trump’s doing with the economy, with only 36 percent disapproving.
Oh, and…
A majority of registered voters oppose Trump’s removal from office, 51 to 45 percent.
Even among all adults — meaning not screening out registered voters, meaning a bigger pool of Democrats — a plurality of 49 to 47 percent oppose removing Trump from office; Trump’s job approval number hit a new high of 44 percent approve (51 percent disapprove); and 56 percent approve of his handling of the economy, a ten-point bump from September.
Other polls reflect the same.
Since the impeachment hoax, Gallup’s poll of all adults shows Trump’s job approval rating climbing from 39 percent to 44 percent. Among independents, approval climbed eight points, from 34 to 42 percent.
Currently, a majority of 51 percent oppose removing Trump from office, while only 46 percent support removal. Independents oppose removal by a 49 to 46 percent margin.
Couple closing points…
This week, I noted how the right track/wrong track numbers are in the best shape we’ve seen in more than a decade. Gallup’s latest polling backs this up.
On the economy, Gallup shows economic confidence at a +40, the highest level in 20 years. That’s not a typo — the highest number since October 2000.
Overall satisfaction with the way things are going in America just climbed to 41 percent, the highest level in 15 years. Fifteen!
What’s happening here are two things, and that they are happening while Trump is on trial is fairly amazing…
Although Democrats and the corporate media are literally spending billions of dollars to destroy Trump, it is not working. The public is not only tuning it all out; Trump’s average job approval rating today is only 1.5 points lower than Barry Obama’s was at this same point in his failed presidency.
The reason for this is that the media’s worst nightmare is coming true. The public is starting to see Trump as a president and to notice the superb job he is doing both at home and abroad, a true era of peace and prosperity, our first since September 11, 2001.
The media are probably keeping Trump’s job approval rating down a few points. Trump’s Twitter account is probably keeping it down a few more. But everything changes once it’s mano y mano, once Trump can get out of the White House and on the campaign trail to make his case — and he has a great case to make.
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The children of illegal immigrants are “more American than most Americans,” according to Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Biden extolled the virtues of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program during a campaign stop Thursday in Ames, Iowa, according to National Review.
“These kids have come, they’ve done well, most of these kids — there’s a lot of them, and they’re not just Hispanic, they’re Asian-Pacific Islanders as well, and they in fact have done very, very well,” Biden said.
“In many cases, they’re more American than most Americans are because they have done well in school,” he said.
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“They believe the basic principles that we all share. I think they should be, in fact, put on a path to citizenship,” Biden added.
Not everyone agreed with Biden’s remarks:
I did well in school. I served in the Army MP Regiment for 24 years. I stop at stop signs. I adopt pets rather than support pet mills. So Screw You @JoeBiden. I’m an American & you’re welcome for your 1A rights. #Dumbpeopletown #USA
— Linda C. Rodriguez (@LindaRodriguez3) January 23, 2020
Is this just a Biden Gaffe or does he mean it? In most cases these Daca Kids are more American than American Kids? Really Joe, I think you have a problem with Americans. How about instead of making illegals citizens you pick out kids you like the most, and move to their country?
— Tim Horton (@SdaTim) January 24, 2020
I am done with DACA and Dreamers. Ungrateful, entitled, not ready for the privilege of American citizenship. Go home and submit your paperwork, wait for the process. US pays for their education and medical care and they demand more. Biden meant what he said, Demonrats’ plans!
— Proud&Unaffiliated (@Ziggyfan_1) January 24, 2020
Biden claims DACA folks more American than Americans. What a disgraceful thing to say! DACA folks are illegals who Barry tried to legalize unconstitutionally. SC must so rule this term or we have no nation.
— HowardH (@HH41848213) January 22, 2020
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A 2018 study from the National Bureau of Economic Research claimed DACA led to a 2.2 percentage point increase in school attendance of Hispanic immigrants between the ages of 14 and 18.
However, a November 2019 report from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said that in 10.38 percent of 765,166 approved DACA cases, the recipient has an arrest record.
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It also noted that 38.71 percent of individuals whose application to become a DACA recipient was denied have an arrest on their record.
Biden’s campaign emphasizes his support for DACA, which former President Barack Obama created via executive order.
“As Vice President, Biden championed the creation and expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program; the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program; the Central American Minors program, which allowed parents with legal status in the U.S. to apply to bring their children up from Central America to live with them; and the creation of a White House task force to support new Americans and help them integrate into their new homes and communities,” his campaign website says.
The DAPA program was ended under the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump announced in 2017 he was terminating DACA, though the issue is now in the courts.
“The Trump Administration made the cruel and counterproductive decision to terminate DACA, throwing into turmoil the lives of millions of Dreamers. Dreamers and their parents should have a roadmap to citizenship through legislative immigration reform,” Biden’s website says.
“But in the meantime, Biden will remove the uncertainty for Dreamers by reinstating the DACA program, and he will explore all legal options to protect their families from inhumane separation.”
“Biden will also ensure Dreamers are eligible for federal student aid (loans, Pell grants) and are included in his proposals to provide access to community college without debt and invest in HBCU/Hispanic Serving Institution/Minority Serving Institutions, which will help Dreamers contribute even more to our economy.”
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Bernie Sanders, whose appeal seemingly rests on his appealing to his audience’s sense of victimhood, made statements when he was launching his burgeoning political career that stretched the bounds of credulity, including recently unearthed comments in which he compared workers in his home state of Vermont to black slaves.
As The Daily Beast reports, in 1976 Sanders “told a local newspaper that the sale of a privately held mining company by its founders harkened back to ‘the days of slavery, when black people were sold to different owners without their consent,’ and compared the service economy to chattel slavery.” That comment was made in response to the announced sale of the Vermont Marble Company to a Swiss conglomerate. Sanders ranted:
We believe ultimately that companies like Vermont Marble should be owned by the workers themselves and that workers—not a handful of owners—should be determining policy. If a worker at Vermont Marble has no say about who owns the company he works for and that major changes can take place without his knowledge and consent, how far have we really advanced from the days of slavery, when black people were sold to different owners without their consent?
The Daily Beast wryly notes, “The population of Vermont was, at the time, more than 99 percent white and roughly 0.2 percent black.”
In a 1977 interview, conducted on Labor Day, Sanders reiterated, “Basically, today, Vermont workers remain slaves in many, many ways. The problem comes when we end up with an entire state of people trained to wait on other people.” He added, “How can a worker be happy with his or her job when he or she has no control over that job? The problem comes when we end up with an entire state of people trained to wait on other people … In the long run, what we are talking about is a peaceful revolution.”
Those comments were made when Sanders was the chairman of the Liberty Union Party, but still had not gained political office, having assayed unsuccessful four candidacies, including running for the U.S. Senate in 1972 and Vermont governor in 1976.
Sanders needs votes from the black constituency of the Democratic Party if he is to win the presidential nomination; The Daily Beast points out regarding Sanders’ 2016 candidacy, “In South Carolina, where black voters account for two-thirds of the Democratic primary electorate, Clinton defeated Sanders by nearly 50 percent, winning African-American voters by a 72-point margin,” adding, “Current polling indicates that Sanders’ support among black voters is healthier than it once was, particularly among those under 50, but he still trails former Vice President Joe Biden by more than 20 points.
In early January, Jason Riley noted in The Wall Street Journal, “Mr. Sanders’s biggest weakness remains his lack of support among older blacks, who are most likely to cast a ballot in the primaries. Yet these voters continue to tell pollsters that their chief concern is electability, and a few early wins by Mr. Sanders might go a long way toward convincing them that he can prevail in November.”
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During an appearance on Fox News Channel on Thursday, nationally syndicated radio talker Mark Levin criticized the merits of the impeachment case brought by the House managers for their inability to precisely define President Donald Trump’s wrongdoing.
Levin took issue with the claims of “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress,” and warned the House of Representatives was attempting to breach the Constitution’s separation of powers.
“Let me just say this, America — these Democrats have destroyed the Constitution, the impeachment clause, they’re trying to destroy separation of powers,” he said. “They’re trying to choose the Republican nominee for president in 2020. They’re trying to take over the Senate. That’s what’s going on. The Senate has a responsibility to protect the American people from the House, from the Democrats. That’s their constitutional responsibility.”
“This president hasn’t violated the Constitution, not once,” Levin continued. “He hasn’t violated any federal statute, not once. He’s complied with every federal court order, every one. He’s not committed treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. But the pornographers over there in the House — abuse of power, obstruction of Congress, they’re the ones. Maybe they ought to be expelled. Maybe we ought to start thinking about that. That’s it.”
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesCarter Page participates in a discussion hosted by Judicial Watch at the One America News studios on Capitol Hill on May 29, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
A recently declassified document reveals the Justice Department has admitted two warrants approving surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser were not valid.
The disclosure was made by James Boasberg, the top judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, in a recently declassified FISC order.
“[T]he Court has received notice of material misstatements and omissions in the applications filed by the government in the above-captioned dockets,” the order from Boasberg read, listing four warrants that allowed surveillance on Carter Page in 2016 and 2017.
The surveillance on Page came as part of the FBI’s efforts to find collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The FBI investigation was the first step of the multiple probes that eventually morphed into the investigation of former special counsel Robert Mueller.
The order said the “DOJ assesses that with respect to the applications in Docket Numbers 17-375 and 17-679, ‘if not earlier, there was insufficient predication to establish probable cause to believe that [Carter] Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power.’”
The numbers are for the final two in the series of four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications for warrants. Both warrants were obtained in 2017.
“The Court understands the government to have concluded, in view of the material misstatements and omissions, that the Court’s authorizations in Docket Numbers 17-375 and 17- 679 were not valid,” the order read.
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“The government apparently does not take a position on the validity of the authorizations in Docket Numbers 16-1182 and 17-52, but intends to sequester information acquired pursuant to those dockets in the same manner as information acquired pursuant to the subsequent dockets.”
The order requires that the Justice Department tell the court how it plans to handle information collected from and about Page.
In a blockbuster ruling, the FISA court declared that least two of the four Carter Page spy warrants were illegal, meaning ANY evidence collected from that surveillance is now invalid.
This could have huge implications for every case brought by Mueller. https://t.co/XIIVBKf7XI
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 23, 2020
Last month, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General criticized the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign.
Although Inspector General Michael Horowitz said the FBI was not wrong to open its investigation, he criticized the bureau for not adhering to proper protocol in multiple instances.
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Attorney General William Barr has said he disagrees with the Horowitz report, because he does not believe there were grounds for opening the investigation.
John Durham, a U.S. Attorney based in Connecticut, is also investigating the opening of the FBI probe.
Meanwhile, House Oversight Committee Republicans are taking the FISC to task over its handling of the FBI’s surveillance of Page.
Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mark Meadows of North Carolina have written to Boasberg demanding to be told whether the court “bears any responsibility for the FBI’s illegal surveillance of Carter Page.”
The letter also demands to know what “disciplinary action” the FISC will take against attorneys who deceived the court, and also when the court first learned of deficiencies in the Page applications.
Jordan and Meadows want to know if the court has “conducted any internal review to examine the accuracy or validity of information contained in the FBI’s surveillance applications for Carter Page.”
Further, the GOP lawmakers seek to have the FISC tell them “what specific steps the FISC will take to better protect the civil liberties of American citizens who are not represented in ex parte proceedings for electronic surveillance.”
The phrase “ex parte” refers to legal proceedings where one party is not present.
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Most parents long to give their children the world, and anytime there’s a crunch they’ll make sacrifices to make sure their child gets priority. When that comes to time constraints, it’s a decision mostly up to the parents.
When there are financial constraints, the decisions get a little more difficult. Many families struggle to acquire necessities, let alone non-essentials, and sometimes when it comes down to it, they could use a little extra help.
Mayra Vasquez-Ruiz of Imperial Beach, California, wanted to celebrate her son Abel’s 4th birthday, but she didn’t have what she needed. Her son, who has Down syndrome, loves “Toy Story,” so she wanted to give him something with that theme.
“As a mom of four, it’s hard,” she told KFMB-TV. “I want to give my kids everything I can.”
Turning to a local Facebook group for help, she was shocked when offers started pouring in — and went way above her initial ask of cake mix and Toy-Story-themed party decorations.
“As soon as someone posted, ‘Oh yeah, I have cake mix,’ I was excited, I was like ‘Yes, I have him a cake,’” she said.
Soon, multiple people offered baked goods, help decorating and even to bring gifts for the 4-year-old. Someone even said they’d bring a pony to the event for pony rides.
“Late at night when it just hit me I’m like, ‘Oh my god, he’s not getting just a small cake he is getting a birthday party,’” Vasquez-Ruiz said.
Vasquez-Ruiz’s mom, who hosted the party, was just as stunned. “I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I kept asking her, are you sure, are you sure?”
The offers meant so much to Vasquez-Ruiz, especially because the year before, the birthday she’d planned for Abel wasn’t as special as she’d hoped. There were only a few guests that showed up, but this year was very, very different.
After over 200 responses flooded in, the grateful mom had to refuse offers and limit the guest list because of how many people were willing to get involved and participate.
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“Me and my family are so grateful for what you did for our son Abel. We can’t thank you enough,” she said. “Imperial Beach made that happen. That big smile on my son’s face.”
“I met a grateful family in a selfless community!” KFMB-TV reporter Abbie Alford posted on Monday. “Mom went to an Imperial Beach Facebook page asking for cake mix and decorations for her son, Abel’s 4th birthday, and the community response is a great act of kindness!”
Photos show the 4-year-old clearly enjoying himself, the generosity of the community only matched by the joy in the young boy’s smile.
“It was really exciting to see Abel smile,” his uncle, Jose Ruiz, told KMFB-TV. “He’s just a really special kid.”
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Lots of people enjoy getting drinks with friends, and lots of people have furry friends they like to take out and about. Many breweries, bars and restaurants have realized this and it has spurred the creation of many dog-friendly patios.
One of the breweries with an affinity for canines is Motorworks Brewing in Bradenton, Florida, which has a monthly “Yappy Hour” where they invite patrons of all shapes and sizes to come hang out, get something to eat or drink and support a good cause.
“We are huge animal lovers here,” Barry Elwonger, director of sales and marketing, told WFLA. “Huge dog people. We have this massive 14,000 square foot beer garden, it’s the largest beer garden in the state. And it’s always dog-friendly out in the beer garden, we love to share this.”
During their Yappy Hour, the brewery often teams up with a local rescue or shelter to help bring awareness to their cause and hopefully get more homeless pets into loving homes.
Recently, they’ve found a unique way to promote adoptable pups that has impressed many people. Teaming up with Shelter Manatee, they formed a plan.
“And we were all three of us talking and just kind of said ‘Hey how can we raise awareness and the most funds for the shelter that’s trying to build their new space,’” Elwonger said.
So, they decided to put the pups where they couldn’t be missed: Smack-dab in the middle of the cans for one of their new lagers.
“Special Adoptable Dog Beer Release Benefit at this Sunday’s Yappy Hour 1-4PM!” the brewery shared on Facebook earlier this month. “Partnering with this month’s cause, Shelter Manatee, we are excited to release an exclusive ADOPTABLE DOG Cruiser Kölsch 4-PACK.”
“Proceeds go to Shelter Manatee to help build the new shelter for our less fortunate four-legged friends. The dogs featured on the can will be on-site ready for adoption alongside several more puppers-in-need plus raffles, silent auctions, drink specials, food trucks & local vendors.”
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“We are totally excited about the overwhelming support we’re getting for these Adoptable Dog Cruiser Kölsch 4-Packs!” the brewery posted on Wednesday.
The cans feature a cute photo of the adoptable pup, along with its name, impound number and a short blurb. After the initial launch, two of the four featured dogs have been adopted — but there are plenty more waiting for their close-ups.
“There’s hundreds more dogs that are looking for homes,” Elwonger told WTVT. “We wanted to showcase that the shelter has some really lovable dogs and, you know, go and check it out and look into a rescue.”
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The shelter was heartened by the positive reception as well, and expressed their appreciation on their own Facebook page.
“OK folks this is amazing how a simple idea has spread,” the shelter posted on Thursday. “Thank you all for the continued support locally and through out the country. Thank you Motorworks Brewing and Manatee County Animal Services for partnering with us on this.”
“We also want to be sure to give credit to Fargo Brewing Company and 4 Luv of Dog Rescue who originally came up with the concept.”
As this idea spreads, don’t be surprised if your local dog-friendly spots start doing something similar. It’s a great way to highlight dogs that might otherwise be overlooked — and who knows, maybe the adoptees will become regulars at their local joint.
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