{"id":41154,"date":"2025-08-02T05:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41154\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T05:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:55:16","slug":"maryland-bookstore-donates-proceeds-from-gop-senators-book-sales-to-immigrant-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41154\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Bookstore Donates Proceeds From GOP Senator\u2019s Book Sales to Immigrant Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            Photograph by Daniella Byck.                        <\/p>\n<p>People\u2019s Book in Takoma Park, Maryland, says it has donated more than $7,000 from sales of US Senator Dave McCormick\u2019s book Who Believed in You to the nonprofit CASA, which advocates for immigrants .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator McCormick\u2019s lobbyists asked us to buy 500 copies of his recently published book,\u201d Matt Bormet, the store\u2019s co-owner, says in a press release. \u201cWhile we don\u2019t want to be in business with someone who is partially responsible for the current crisis, we also don\u2019t support banning books. So we filled the request. But in order to live our values, we\u2019re taking his money and giving it to folks who can do some good with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bomet tells Washingtonian in an email that lobbyists Marty Obst and Jeff Miller purchased the books, \u201ca common tactic amongst these types to goose their sales numbers.\u201d Neither Obst nor Miller\u2019s office have replied to a request for comment, and McCormick\u2019s spokesperson hasn\u2019t replied to a request for comment yet, either. We\u2019ll update this post when we hear back.<\/p>\n<p>People\u2019s Book calls McCormick \u201ca human rubber stamp for the Trump agenda\u201d and said it encourages the senator to \u201cbuy additional books from us so we can give more of his massive piles of wealth to other worthy causes.\u201d This isn\u2019t the first time McCormick has found himself at odds with a small business: During his campaign last year, Max\u2019s Steaks, a cheesesteak purveyor in Philadelphia, asked McCormick not to return after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/philly-restaurant-bans-gop-candidate-152343947.html?guccounter=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">held a campaign event at the shop without alerting its owners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"850\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/beaujon-elkins-headshot-2.jpg\" class=\"img-circle float-right force-crop-contents-centered noscrollreveal\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"   title=\"beaujon-elkins-headshot-2 - Washingtonian\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Senior editor<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Beaujon joined Washingtonian in late 2014. He was previously with the Poynter Institute, TBD.com, and Washington City Paper. He lives in Del Ray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photograph by Daniella Byck. People\u2019s Book in Takoma Park, Maryland, says it has donated more than $7,000 from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-41154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}