Posted on 03/28/2019 5:48:28 AM PDT by deplorableindc
Catherine Toney began February in prison and ended the month with a job at Walmart after White House adviser Jared Kushner called the Arkansas-based retailer on her behalf.
Toney, 55, is believed to be the first woman freed by the First Step Act, which President Trump signed in December. She was released Feb. 1 after serving 16 years, benefiting from the law's retroactive crack cocaine sentence reductions.
Toney will join Trump on Monday for an event celebrating the criminal justice reform law, his first major bipartisan policy achievement. Other recently released inmates were invited to attend.
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Whew, that will be a lot of pressure on that woman, she will need all of our prayers.
Why didn’t the liberal puke give her a job himself? She could clean his house or babysit the kids.
wasn’t she at state of union speech? He mentioned the program and her being released and she was pointed out by camera in attendance.
50-50 she’s back on the rock in no time.
I think all the big networks have 90 minute specials scheduled about this.
!! NOT!!
Undoubtedly, he has had people doing all you suggest for years. Unless you want him to fire the hard-working people he now employs?
Post 2 - proper thought and prayers for her new life.
The following posts (3,4,&5) not so helpful.
I think the woman at the SOTU speech was the black lady that Kim Kardashian championed when she went to the White House last spring.
I remember President Ronald Reagan used to call companies on behalf of job seekers too.
That's the exact right answer to "what would Jesus do?"
We need more like you and less like the posts that followed yours. (I point the finger at myself also as needing to respond more like you did ...)
The whole guv official calling a biz for such favors thing makes me queasy.
She could clean his house or babysit the kids.
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Or do the family shopping for them. I bet he runs everyone household employee through rigorous security checks.
I want the liberal dogooders to have to live with the cons they want released from prison.
It is too easy for them because they will never have to see them again.
Excellent!
Lots and lots of nonprofits do just this sort of thing. No need to do the guv pressure on biz thing here.
Thurston Howell III, lives!
This particular woman is probably as safe as excons get, but your larger point indeed is very valid.
“Undoubtedly, he has had people doing all you suggest for years. Unless you want him to fire the hard-working people he now employs?”
He could call his buddy George Soros. George has plenty of jobs available.
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