Megan Wiltsie 202-483-7382
Blacksburg, Va. – “Pardoned in Washington. Punished at Virginia Tech.” That’s the message of a new PETA ad running on Sunday in the
Roanoke Times that lets the public in on a dirty secret: Four turkeys issued a “full and complete pardon” by former President Donald J. Trump who called one of them “so lucky” are being housed in dirty, barren cells at Virginia Tech, and they’re so stressed and depressed from a lack of fresh air and sunlight and with nothing to see or do at all that their feathers are falling out. PETA points out that the public was told that the pardoned turkeys were “alive and well” at the inaptly named “Gobblers Rest” which is a far cry from the reality at the university.
Brooklyn: A recent Daily News article referenced numerous citations from Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro’s department memorandum regarding the conduct of active and retired FDNY members at political rallies and functions (”Be brave, not bozos,” Jan. 15). I find the tone and equally biased slant of the article to be of particular concern as someone who was there at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.