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'I dont want to be associated with him': 100 eighth graders refuse to pose with Paul Ryan during DC [View all]
Source: Raw Story
‘I don’t want to be associated with him’: 100 eighth graders refuse to pose with Paul Ryan during DC trip
ELIZABETH PREZA
27 MAY 2017 AT 22:31 ET
About 100 eighth grade students refused to pose with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Friday, snubbing the top Republican to protest his policies.
Though Ryan’s official Instagram features a photo of him waving to a group students from South Orange Middle School in South Orange, New Jersey, it does not show their peers sitting in a park lot across the street, in an apparent rebuff of the GOP leader.
“It’s not just a picture,” student Matthew Malespina told ABC News. “It’s being associated with a person who puts his party before his country.”
When he learned of his school’s impending photo op with Ryan, Malespina texted his mother he’s “just not going to do it.”
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An equal number of students opted to participate in the photo.
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ELIZABETH PREZA
27 MAY 2017 AT 22:31 ET
About 100 eighth grade students refused to pose with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Friday, snubbing the top Republican to protest his policies.
Though Ryan’s official Instagram features a photo of him waving to a group students from South Orange Middle School in South Orange, New Jersey, it does not show their peers sitting in a park lot across the street, in an apparent rebuff of the GOP leader.
“It’s not just a picture,” student Matthew Malespina told ABC News. “It’s being associated with a person who puts his party before his country.”
When he learned of his school’s impending photo op with Ryan, Malespina texted his mother he’s “just not going to do it.”
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An equal number of students opted to participate in the photo.
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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/i-dont-want-to-be-associated-with-him-100-eighth-graders-refuse-to-pose-with-paul-ryan-during-dc-trip/
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