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Rhiannon12866

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Sat Jun 21, 2025, 12:52 AM Yesterday

"They LOVE To Cherry Pick": Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett Skewers Her GOP Colleagues' FLAMING Hypocrisy



Rep. Jasmine Crockett explains how the Trump administration's failed policies are hurting average Americans. - 06/20/2025.
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"They LOVE To Cherry Pick": Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett Skewers Her GOP Colleagues' FLAMING Hypocrisy (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Yesterday OP
Send them to Washington State - the cherry harvest is in trouble! SeattleVet Yesterday #1

SeattleVet

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1. Send them to Washington State - the cherry harvest is in trouble!
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 02:09 AM
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They are masters at cherry picking, so let them prove it in the orchards that are suffering right now.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jun/18/washington-cherry-growers-struggle-to-find-pickers/
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The threat of federal immigration agents raiding orchards in central Washington is causing a labor shortage that has compelled some Washington producers to leave cherries unpicked or delay their harvests until the fruit overripens and is worth less money.

At least one cherry grower in the Mattawa area has already lost about 300 bins, each weighing between 350 and 400 pounds, said Erik Zavala, a horticulturist and director of field staff for Wenatchee-based Blue Bird Inc., which is a grower-owned cooperative of hundreds of family farms.

“People watch the news,” Zavala said, referring to masked federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining persons off the street. “It’s definitely having an impact.

“I don’t care about that stuff. I just know that this is affecting the growers directly whether they are Democrat or Republican or whatever. These growers will lose a lot of money and are risking losing their farms because of a lack of labor.”
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That's at least 50 tons of cherries lost from just ONE grower co-op. Cherries are a huge business in the state, and now is the season that they are coming into peak ripeness and need to be picked. They are all over in the local stores here now, but the growers will definitely be hurting pretty badly over the next several weeks.

Come on, MAGAts! Show us how great you are at 'cherry picking'. The jobs are available - just line up and start working.

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