Get a load of this, John —

Republicans are calling federal funding for a PATH trail extension in DeKalb County “woke nonsense” and singling out Hank for securing the funding. Why? Because the trail is named after Michelle Obama.

You read that right, John. Last year, Hank announced that he had secured $3.6 million for a trail extension in our district. Separately, DeKalb County thoughtfully decided to call the new trail “Michelle Obama Trail,” in honor of the former first lady’s “Let’s Move” initiative aimed at helping kids lead active and healthy lives.

The GOP does NOT like the name. So now, they’re denouncing it as “woke,” which seems to have become the word they use for anything at all that they don’t like. So we’re asking you to sign our petition to show Republicans that folks in the district and around the country support the Michelle Obama Trail and have the former first lady’s back >>

ADD YOUR NAME: act.myngp.com/Forms/-3207986133356967936

Recently, the Michelle Obama Trail made a list of projects the MAGA GOP is targeting in its “anti-woke” campaign, along with measures in Ohio and California that aim to offer services to people of color and gender-expansive individuals. And the programs the GOP is targeting were introduced by members of color and women, one of whom is Jewish.

It’s almost as if “anti-woke” means “anti-Black, anti-women, anti-LGBTQ+, and anti-Semitic.”

Republicans have said they might negotiate on the debt limit if they can cut spending on these programs, but their line of reasoning is totally disingenuous. They go on and on about the need to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from our federal budget, but then they claim they’ll be happy with a fraction of a percentage of that? Yep, as long as the cuts come from trails named after Michelle Obama and services meant to help LGBTQ+ individuals find jobs.

Republicans are perfectly content to keep spending billions in their own districts (and Democrats are happy to let them as long as Americans are benefiting), but the minute we name a trail after a Black first lady, they clutch their pearls in disbelief!?

This is absurd, and we need as many people as possible to tell the GOP as much. So please, John — will you add your name to our petition defending the Michelle Obama Trail and the worthwhile programs that Republicans are attacking out of spite?

SIGN THE PETITION: act.myngp.com/Forms/-3207986133356967936

Thank you,

Hank HQ




   








Congressman Hank Johnson is a former defense attorney, DeKalb County commissioner, small business owner, and magistrate judge who now serves in Congress as a champion for the middle class.

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