THENATIONALPULSE (Raheem J. Kassam) - EXC: ‘RIP George Floyd’ – How Cornyn’s Comms Chief Pitched a BLM-Friendly Op-Ed to The National Pulse… We Declined.
In late May 2020, at the beginning of the “summer of love” and the “mostly peaceful” Black Lives Matter riots, John Cornyn’s campaign communications director, Matt Mackowiak, was posting pro-George Floyd messages on his social media accounts. Mackowiak would even pitch a pro-Floyd op-ed to The National Pulse over a year later, in October 2021.We […] The post EXC: ‘RIP George Floyd’ – How Cornyn’s Comms Chief Pitched a BLM-Friendly Op-Ed to The National Pulse… We Declined. appeared first on The National Pulse .
In late May 2020, at the beginning of the “summer of love” and the “mostly peaceful” Black Lives Matter riots, John Cornyn’s campaign communications director, Matt Mackowiak , was posting pro-George Floyd messages on his social media accounts. Mackowiak would even pitch a pro-Floyd op-ed to The National Pulse over a year later, in October 2021. We declined to publish his piece. Mackowiak – a long-standing NeverTrumper who also runs a group called “Save Austin Now” – posted on May 27, 2020: “Truly awful story. RIP George Floyd.” Floyd, a violent criminal who once pointed a gun at a pregnant mother’s belly, died during an altercation with Minneapolis police. At the time of death , Floyd had fentanyl intoxication,…Open