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Rudy Giuliani was given the title "America's Mayor". Giuliani's Obama comments garnered a response from the back up 5th alternate WH Press Secretary substitute, Tim Black. This will be historic.
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A 5-Foot-Nothing Conservative Whiz Kid
Listen to Coreco “CJ” Pearson Jr. speak and you hear the classic stump speech of a true conservative.
In front of you is a 12-year-old hankering to make his first legislative mark on the world. His issue: challenging age barriers that keep his peers out of politics. He’s jockeying to lower Georgia’s minimum age restrictions on holding public office to age 18 in the House and 21 in the Senate. An African-American preteen from Augusta, Georgia, is hardly the face of the GOP. But he’s got more yea-sayers than you’d guess: Since November, CJ — who campaigned for new Sen. David Perdue last fall — has worked his connections to recruit a slew of supporters. Seven co-sponsors have already signed on, including state Reps. Ben Harbin, Barry Fleming and Buzz Brockway. If 18-year-olds can get drafted, “why not give them a chance?” Brockway quipped.
Only 14 states — including Louisiana, California and New York — allow teenagers to serve in public office. But the whole shebang is, apparently, now a national movement. That’s thanks in part to the success of 18-year-old Saira Blair, a West Virginia college freshman who became America’s youngest state legislator this fall. Many young advocates are on the rise, said Kyle Kondik, editor of a political blog out of the University of Virginia. For jaded voters, teens might have legitimate appeal. “There aren’t much fresher faces than 18-year-olds.”
CJ wears his ambition openly: “I wanted to run, in all honesty,” he said, speaking with an unmistakable Georgia twang, leaning over the mahogany table in his parents’ dining room. But in the face of electoral limitations, he’s settled for being a precocious politico. At age 8 he started writing blog posts in favor of a local conservative candidate. During the midterms, he campaigned for four winning Republicans, knocking on doors, putting up signs, even giving speeches.
Oh, and naturally, he’s the middle school student body president.
His middle school peers weren’t convinced the “playful and hilarious” superfan of Ariana Grande would make a good president. “He definitely proved them wrong,” said Rhagan McKie, a close friend and fellow seventh-grader. He won handily, and takes the job seriously — occasionally even donning suits in the halls.
At CJ’s house in an Augusta suburb, overlooking a lake,his parents were surprised to see a reporter show up on their doorstep. CJ had, apparently, forgotten to tell them. But his parents — two Democrats, at that — seemed used to CJ running his own show. “My husband goes, ‘Well, I think he’s just doing this for now,’” Robin Pearson said. As for her? “I told him, ‘You’re a child. You’ve got to run slow.’” Like many moms, CJ’s plays chauffeur plenty. Only instead of shuttling him between swim practice and quiz team, it’s 8 a.m. breakfast meetings. He devotes at least 40 hours a week to political business — as soon as he gets home from school, it’s straight to the telephones to agitate legislators.
Democratic backgrounds aside, it’s arguably the Pearsons’ family history that led CJ to the right. The son of a retired sergeant major, CJ remembers his political awakening taking place in 2008. He was in the second grade. John McCain’s story of military service and his prisoner-of-war days captivated him. Obviously, he took the opposite stance from what some would expect a young black boy to adopt. “I didn’t look at it as a race thing,” he said. “For me, it was more about who really cared about your country.” He stands his ground on the “not a race thing” mantra, including over Michael Brown and Ferguson, Missouri: “I was on Officer Wilson’s side.”He cites George W. Bush’s “41: A Portrait of My Father” in the same breath as “The Hunger Games” and “Harry Potter.”What else is on his platform? Plenty, including college debt and public school lunch programs (don’t feed ’em — just teach ’em how to eat better, he says). Though he doesn’t oppose gay marriage, he finds corporate tax rates “crippling” and “inexcusable.” And don’t even get him started on the $18 trillion in federal debt, which, he reminds his audience, increases by 100 grand in the time it took to read this sentence.
Of course, CJ’s dreams, for now, are a long shot. His bill would require a constitutional amendment, meaning it would get put through the wringer in both chambers and on the general ballot. Minimum age requirements are whimsical nonpriorities for most voters. And plenty doubt that young people can pull off public office. If people thought Obama was green, well … . Put more mildly, an inexperienced candidate has“the potential to be harmful” to government, said Matthew Harrigan, a lecturer of political science at Santa Clara University.
Despite the suits, despite the address book on his bedroom desk full of a legislators’ cellphone numbers, you can’t entirely forget that the kid’s a kid, though. It’s hard to hear CJ’s voice over his dad’s whirring lawn mower outside. And though he just finished reading George W. Bush’s 41: A Portrait of My Father, he cites it in the same breath as The Hunger Games and Harry Potter.
When grilling CJ, there’s one key question any reporter has to drop. No, it’s not “When are you running for office?” It’s “Where are you heading to college?” His plan: the University of Georgia. Not for football, nor fraternities. “To run for office,” he said, “you have to show your dedication to your state. It’s kind of a perfectly orchestrated way to do it.”
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Viral teen YouTube star renounces conservatism
<cite class="el-editorial-source">Washington (CNN)</cite>The 13-year-old Internet phenom who gained national attention criticizing President Barack Obama and briefly was a part of the Ted Cruz campaign is renouncing conservatism, saying he's looking to be a voice unbound by party ideology.
CJ Pearson told CNN on Friday that concerns about the Republican Party's viewpoints on racial and gender disparity as well as youth issues convinced him he could no longer be a mouthpiece for conservatism.
"I was tired of being a champion of a party that turned a blind eye to racial discrimination. Tired of being a champion of any cause that denies equal rights to every American. Tired of being a champion of a party that doesn't care about the issues important to young people," Pearson wrote in an email.
The 13-year-old, African-American YouTube star from Georgia said in an interview that he began considering the change after a conversation with another teen friend, who asked why he doesn't speak out on racial discrimination -- to which he replied he was concerned his followers wouldn't be pleased.
"Over the past few days, I thought about essentially how I don't want people to follow me because I'm that anti-Obama kid, or who called out Hillary Clinton or who took Bernie Sanders to task," Pearson said. "I don't want to be the conservative wonder kid that people follow because I make them feel good and like young people are part of their movement. I want to be followed because I'm the voice of a generation that doesn't have a voice at the table."
He said the video of Laquan McDonald being shot 16 times by a police officer in Chicago helped open his eyes to the systemic problems of racial discrimination in America and the need to look at the issues objectively.
Pearson was also the chairman of Teens for Ted and part of the presidential campaign for the Republican Texas senator, but separated with the Cruz campaign at the beginning of the month. Pearson said Cruz wasn't doing enough for issues affecting young people.
The teen also was accused September of faking a screenshot that Obama's account had blocked him on Twitter. Pearson admits he made a mistake and says he has moved on.
Pearson commands a YouTube channel viewed by more than 5 million and a Facebook feed with more than 100,000 followers.
He told CNN he plans to continue to be a social media presence.
"My generation is one of the most politically diverse ever, and I'll continue to be a voice but one that looks at issues objectively," Pearson said. "My views on the issues aren't going to be dictated by one political platform or another."
He also cited one his favorite targets for criticism, quoting Obama: "There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is the United States of America."
source: CNN
Right to left: Ex-conservative teen YouTube star backs Sanders
Teen slams White House over invite 01:22
Two weeks after renouncing the conservative movement, teen Internet phenom CJ Pearson has swung to the opposite side of the political spectrum and is endorsing Bernie Sanders for president.
The 13-year-old, whose past attacks on President Barack Obama have gone viral on YouTube, told CNN that he has come to believe Sanders is the best candidate to address racial issues, police brutality and poverty.
"This election will make a pivotal difference in the future of our nation. If it takes changing your mind to make the right choice as to who should lead our country, I am willing to do it. Screw the optics," Pearson, the former chairman of Teens for Ted Cruz, told CNN.
Read: Bernie Sanders' Freddie Gray tour
"People are struggling in America. We need the right man in the White House. And in my opinion, that man is Senator Bernie Sanders."
Pearson, who lives in Georgia, has become something of a viral star -- his YouTube channel has received more than 5 million views, he has 37,000 followers on Twitter, and 100,000 likes on his Facebook page.
Pearson, an African-American who once referred to the Black Lives Matter movement as "domestic terrorists," said he bolted the conservative movement due to its "lack of concern over racial discrimination in this country."
RELATED: Pearson renounces conservatism
He also said the video of Laquan McDonald being shot 16 times by a police officer in Chicago educated him on what he called the prevalence of "systemic racism" in America.
"Systemic racism is real. Police brutality is real. Youth unemployment is real. Income inequality is real. Poverty in the richest country in the world is real," Pearson said. "There is only one candidate that has shown enough courage to accept these issues as a painful reality and has released plans to tackle every single one of them. That candidate, that courageous trailblazer, is Bernie Sanders. That's how I made my decision."
Pearson, whose personal website features endorsements from conservative leaders such as Rand Paul and Allen West, said his mentors weren't pleased with his sudden political aboutface.
"They weren't happy, but honestly, I didn't expect them to be. I have to be my own person. I have to stand on my own two feet," said Pearson, who plans to continue his social media activism.
"My activism is centered around fighting to give young people a voice in their government and in the political arena," said Pearson, executive director of Young Georgians of Government. "With President Sanders, young people will have that voice. So, in my opinion, I'm doing exactly what I set out to do at the beginning of my political career."
In September, Pearson was accused of falsely claiming that Obama's Twitter account had blocked him. Pearson admits he made a mistake.
Right to left: Ex-conservative teen YouTube star backs Sanders
Teen slams White House over invite 01:22
Two weeks after renouncing the conservative movement, teen Internet phenom CJ Pearson has swung to the opposite side of the political spectrum and is endorsing Bernie Sanders for president.
The 13-year-old, whose past attacks on President Barack Obama have gone viral on YouTube, told CNN that he has come to believe Sanders is the best candidate to address racial issues, police brutality and poverty.
"This election will make a pivotal difference in the future of our nation. If it takes changing your mind to make the right choice as to who should lead our country, I am willing to do it. Screw the optics," Pearson, the former chairman of Teens for Ted Cruz, told CNN.
Read: Bernie Sanders' Freddie Gray tour
"People are struggling in America. We need the right man in the White House. And in my opinion, that man is Senator Bernie Sanders."
Pearson, who lives in Georgia, has become something of a viral star -- his YouTube channel has received more than 5 million views, he has 37,000 followers on Twitter, and 100,000 likes on his Facebook page.
Pearson, an African-American who once referred to the Black Lives Matter movement as "domestic terrorists," said he bolted the conservative movement due to its "lack of concern over racial discrimination in this country."
RELATED: Pearson renounces conservatism
He also said the video of Laquan McDonald being shot 16 times by a police officer in Chicago educated him on what he called the prevalence of "systemic racism" in America.
"Systemic racism is real. Police brutality is real. Youth unemployment is real. Income inequality is real. Poverty in the richest country in the world is real," Pearson said. "There is only one candidate that has shown enough courage to accept these issues as a painful reality and has released plans to tackle every single one of them. That candidate, that courageous trailblazer, is Bernie Sanders. That's how I made my decision."
Pearson, whose personal website features endorsements from conservative leaders such as Rand Paul and Allen West, said his mentors weren't pleased with his sudden political aboutface.
"They weren't happy, but honestly, I didn't expect them to be. I have to be my own person. I have to stand on my own two feet," said Pearson, who plans to continue his social media activism.
"My activism is centered around fighting to give young people a voice in their government and in the political arena," said Pearson, executive director of Young Georgians of Government. "With President Sanders, young people will have that voice. So, in my opinion, I'm doing exactly what I set out to do at the beginning of my political career."
In September, Pearson was accused of falsely claiming that Obama's Twitter account had blocked him. Pearson admits he made a mistake.
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