To the editor:<\/p>\n
Charlie Kirk was a friend of mine. \u00a0I met him when he was a senior in high school and I was about to start serving as a state senator. I was very impressed with his economic knowledge and his ability and willingness to communicate about important issues. <\/p>\n
His death came as a great shock to everyone who knew him, especially me. \u00a0<\/p>\n
I believe that it is important that his work with Turning Point continue in an even stronger direction.\u00a0I helped Charlie financially to launch his Turning Point organization in 2012, and made additional contributions supporting his efforts again in 2016 and 2019, and visited one of his training seminars in Miami in 2020. \u00a0<\/p>\n
I am proud to have known Charlie, and honored to have supported his start. <\/p>\n
Today, I am mailing a check to his organization for an additional $10,000 to do my part to help. \u00a0I urge everyone to do what you can to support the effort to have free and open debate on our high school and university campuses by sending a check to Turning Point USA at 4940 E. Beverly, Phoenix, AZ 85045.<\/p>\n
Jim Oberweis<\/p>\n
Bonita Springs<\/p>\n
Editor\u2019s note: Mr. Oberweis is a candidate for Congress, seeking to represent District 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Charlie Kirk was a friend of mine. \u00a0I met him when he was a senior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}