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PPP - Did you receive yours?

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To the editor:

Are you upset, too? Did you get your PPP for your small business?

Most small businesses here in Lincoln/Logan County did not.

A few of the wealthiest here in Lincoln did. But, if you walk around the streets in Lincoln, Mount Pulaski, Atlanta and see storefronts closed or empty, the original concept of PPPs would have helped save your business.

But Trump's friends and large donors to his presidential campaign did. Millions, thousands of dollars. When this bill passed the House, it was designed to help real small, main street businesses but after it staggered through the Senate, it became one that benefited a chosen few.

Here's just a few of the rich people who received PPP's:

Betsy DeVos,

Kanye West,

Reese Witherspoon,

Jared Kurshner,

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Secretary Elaine Chou (wife of Mitch McConnell).

Many right-leaning evangelical churches received millions,

Paula White's (the President's pastoral counselor),

Robert Jeffers (whose church hosted a Trump rally in Texas),

Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson and the Church of Scientology.

I must add that Nancy Pelosi's husband received one for his hotel business. Many fast food and petroleum companies received PPPs, too.

What's the common thread here? All were donors to Trump's campaign.

So. small business owner, here in Lincoln and Logan County, did you receive yours?
 
Thank you,
Rebecca Drake

[Posted July 11, 2020]

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