Philanthropist pledges $100,000 to clean up Baltimore if newspaper retracts its hit piece on volunteers

Conservative activist Scott Presler saw the same videos the rest of us did of Baltimore neighborhoods covered in garbage, and that inspired him to put together a team of 200 volunteers who picked up 12 tons of trash in 12 hours.

“Some people were believing that the people of Baltimore just don’t care or they want to live that way.

And that’s just not true. They don’t want to live that way. I think they just needed somebody to show love and that’s what we did.”
–@ScottPresler https://t.co/8uHQ2tfwDQ

— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) August 8, 2019

However, The Baltimore Sun’s editorial board decided to trash Presler in the form of an op-ed. You see, “Whatever he says his motives were, Scott Presler’s presence in Baltimore reinforces the tired image that the poor people in this city can’t take care of their own neighborhoods”:

We also hope Mr. Presler keeps his promise to return to Baltimore once a month. It would definitely give his motives more credibility. It might also give him better perspective about the city’s problems than any single visit can provide. Maybe it could even lead him and his followers to advocate for federal housing, health care, transportation, education, criminal justice, civil rights and anti-poverty policies aimed at urban communities.

Twitter philanthropist Bill Pulte obviously got word of the editorial board’s hit piece and pledged $100,000 toward clean up efforts if the Sun retracts its article trashing Presler.

https://twitter.com/pulte/status/1159104682004025345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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