BC FOODRAISER
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6TH (😱😱) ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FRIDAY, 12/04/2020
ALL-DAY THREAD
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 We have a few new people here since our December 2019 event, so let's start things off with some background 😬
Waaaayyy back in 2015 – seriously, how many decades ago was that?? – I teamed up with local schoolteacher Turquoise Parker (@PrkrsProfessors) to help her out with a problem
Turq taught at Eastway Elementary, which was just a couple blocks from my law office

Eastway is also one of the poorest schools in Durham (including, for example, having a few homeless shelters whose kids it serves)

And all the schools shut down for several weeks each December
Y'all know how much kids like to eat

So Turq was worried their parents wouldn't have the means to keep them feed over the winter break, and we decided to run a food drive to help her class
Yes: just -1- class originally! 🤪
Here's a picture of Turquoise in the bottom left, from our 2018 Foodraiser thread

Yes, she is always like this 😆 https://t.co/mYFtr03Yj7
The 2015 Foodraiser was very slapdash back then

For one, it wasn't called a Foodraiser

For two, it was put together in only about 48 hours 😂

But we packed out my car with food! https://t.co/aCShFKcL6T
And since that was such a success, we had to do it again in 2016!

By that point I'd gotten "famous," with a whopping 5,000 Twitter followers!

And the added reach led to a bunch more donations and enough food to stuff my RAV4 https://t.co/XDrtx2xZRp
Now keep in mind both 2015 and 2016 were just for a single classroom of about 25ish churrens

In 2017 things continued to expand, and got to the point I needed to call in Delsie to bring her SUV because it couldn't all fit in mine! 😄

Here's the video of me pre-car-stuffing: https://t.co/Dmc4E5x1pU
We had so much food in 2017 that we fed the entire 3rd grade at Eastway, 3 classes' worth of kids

Those of you who know the Fibonacci Sequence can probably guess where this is going...
We did it again in 2018, and things started *really* taking off

We ended up with palettes upon palettes of food, that didn't even get unshrinkwrapped because there was no point I guess? 😂 https://t.co/RyYJ8ZVpYs
And we needed scads of volunteers to transport it all, with roughly a dozen SUV drivers helping out

Y'all. 2018 sucked so bad from a manual labor standpoint, my back hurt for days afterward 🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/Ggu9U2MBWL
2018 was also reaching a point where things were too big for "normal" processes

For example, I tried to use my debit card to pay for it but the amount was so large we had to transition to cashier's checks from the bank

Which I didn't know until everyone was there waiting 🤦‍♂️
But we had so. much. food. that we fed an *entire* elementary school for the first time!

Every kid

Every grade

No exceptions https://t.co/GRHLeDTCAX
Then came December 2019, our 5th annual event...
Have y'all ever tried to spend so much money at once that a business flat out refuses to let you shop there?

Just straight-up cancels your entire order and tells you to go f*ck yourself?

That's what happened to us in 2019
Donations increased 90%+ year over year

We placed an order for $13,000+ of food for the kids

And the company we'd worked with for 4 years prior *refused to fill it* and didn't notify us until the day we were scheduled to pick everything up! 🤬
So Turq called @Costco, spoke with their manager Ryan, and somehow some way they got a comparable order filled in just a few hours! https://t.co/uH4S6mtsGw
Because Sam's Club is trash

(Oops, did I say their name out loud??)

I've boycotted them since. Let my membership lapse and never went back after they f*cked us on that 2019 food drive https://t.co/Lviaos8vOz
Now, idk about y'all – but I'd never seen $13,000+ in food before

A dozen volunteers driving SUVs wasn't gonna cut it

We needed a full-blown box truck, that @Lowes was kind enough to donate for the event! https://t.co/SkJYEpAGtR
An entire commercial grade box truck deep of food pallets stacked floor-to-ceiling... https://t.co/fJozUS9MH7
They provided a driver, *and* a bunch of volunteers!

I shop there for all my home improvement needs now 😂 https://t.co/xMOrbYioS0
In 2019 we got so much food that I had to spread the results pics across 3 different tweets 😂

Start here, and scroll down: https://t.co/1hEMP28ygd
(I'm not exaggerating – the entire school's library and some of the hallway became a massive staging ground for groceries) https://t.co/VsDTPi9Dlc
When all was said and done, we had enough groceries for every. single. child. at

three.

whole.

schools.

😱😱😱
So. That is what we're hoping to be our baseline for 2020!

Last year, we fed 3 schools off just over $13K

This year we'd like to raise $14K (and if it goes above that, even better)

And this is where you – and a very special team of people – come in!
Those of you who've seen our other charity fundraisers throughout the year know that I like to add a little spice to the events, by chipping in some cash of my own on a per-donor basis

I don't do that here because I'll be providing manual labor instead 😂 But others will!
We currently have *12* people, who have each agreed in advance to kick in $2 for every donor, up to a certain # of donors ranging from 250 to 1,000

That means your donation – even if it's just $1 – will trigger another +$24 in donations from this team of people
*BUT* that means we need at least 250+ of you to donate something for us to max our sponsors out!
To make it easy, we're doing a couple things:

1️⃣ We created a 501(c)(3) charity for the event, so now your donations are tax-deductible!

2️⃣ We've also got several different platforms where you can contribute, so use whatever's easiest for you!

(They're in the next tweet)
HOW TO DONATE TO
THE 6TH(!) ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER

1️⃣ Donate online: https://t.co/zMvFOo4VEp

2️⃣ CashApp: $tgdlaw

3️⃣ Venmo: @greg_doucette

4️⃣ PayPal: https://t.co/WU8c4YgGxU

And of course please retweet, tell a friend, etc etc etc 😆
We can also take checks and cash, but you either need to be local to Durham or willing to get it to me ASAP so everything can clear by 12/15 😬
And unlike the other fundraisers, you *do not* need to send me a screenshot for your donation to get matched this time!

I've got access to all the backend data, and will share updates throughout the day 😆
Yes! We'll have details on that out next week, but basically the food delivering will be on 12/15, then sorting + bagging on 12/16 and maybe 12/17, with pickups and delivers on 12/17-18 https://t.co/GxhcxpnGG9
I tried so hard not to die of laughter when this happened 😂😂 https://t.co/Zy2hDqteas

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Incitement is speech that is:

1️⃣ intended to cause, and
2️⃣ reasonably likely to cause
3️⃣ imminent
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Sort of

You'd only get Acting President Nancy Pelosi if the vote counting wasn't done by January 20th when Trump's term ends

1/


Basically, if e.g. Arizona's Biden votes were thrown out, Dems would object to Arkansas or some other state soon after Arizona

When the chambers separate to consider the objection, the House would refer the question to committee first

2/
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Very low

I won't put them at zero because you never know what could theoretically happen, but the last amendment was largely accidental and still 28 years ago

The last intentional amendment was ratified 49 years ago


No

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Correct


The Speaker and the Vice President preside over their respective chambers like normal, then decide who talks


I'd need to go through whatever rules the House adopts tomorrow, they're not my forte
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But yes, both chambers of Congress acting together have always had the power to install a President. See Hayes-Tilden 1876


Someone has to have the power. Would you rather it be the President? 5 justices of the Supreme Court?

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