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Eugene

(61,862 posts)
Sun May 28, 2017, 01:40 AM May 2017

'I dont want to be associated with him': 100 eighth graders refuse to pose with Paul Ryan during DC

Source: Raw Story

‘I don’t want to be associated with him’: 100 eighth graders refuse to pose with Paul Ryan during DC trip

ELIZABETH PREZA
27 MAY 2017 AT 22:31 ET

About 100 eighth grade students refused to pose with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Friday, snubbing the top Republican to protest his policies.

Though Ryan’s official Instagram features a photo of him waving to a group students from South Orange Middle School in South Orange, New Jersey, it does not show their peers sitting in a park lot across the street, in an apparent rebuff of the GOP leader.

“It’s not just a picture,” student Matthew Malespina told ABC News. “It’s being associated with a person who puts his party before his country.”

When he learned of his school’s impending photo op with Ryan, Malespina texted his mother he’s “just not going to do it.”

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An equal number of students opted to participate in the photo.

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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/i-dont-want-to-be-associated-with-him-100-eighth-graders-refuse-to-pose-with-paul-ryan-during-dc-trip/
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'I dont want to be associated with him': 100 eighth graders refuse to pose with Paul Ryan during DC (Original Post) Eugene May 2017 OP
smart kids trueblue2007 May 2017 #1
Resistance begins when you're young! Initech May 2017 #2
Brilliant of those kids who knew what the Cha May 2017 #3
And THIS is why they say "children are the future." Miles Archer May 2017 #4

Cha

(297,123 posts)
3. Brilliant of those kids who knew what the
Sun May 28, 2017, 04:56 AM
May 2017

slime ball stood for.. to refuse to enable his insane ass with a photo op.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
4. And THIS is why they say "children are the future."
Sun May 28, 2017, 07:57 AM
May 2017

Saddens me, however, that eighth graders can spot a snake while so many adults keep re-electing him.

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