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Tampa Sisters Are Bringing High Quality Cleaning To Tampa Bay
BY MONIQUE STAMPS Sentinel Staff Writer
In November 2019, Jenelle Guzman had a vision to start a cleaning services business. She enlisted her sister, Brittney to join her and started Well Polished Cleaning Serv- ices. A few months later, COVID-19 hit and sidelined the burgeoning business.
Guzman was not deterred. With her sis- ter and the rest of her team, they bounced right back. Today, they are busy servicing the entire Tampa Bay area, including Clearwater, St. Pe- tersburg, Brandon, and everywhere in be- tween.
Growing up, Guzman was always comple- mented on how clean she was. People told her that she should own a cleaning business.
After her first client, she was hooked. “The knowledge that this was my business that I started, and not a franchise was exhilarating. It was all me.”
The positive feedback was powerful and feeds her desire to make her cleaning business a powerhouse.
Guzman has very high standards. She states, “We are very punctual, and we are there to get the job done. We are there to make our clients happy.”
In the future, Guzman sees her business expanding. She wants to give people the op- portunity to work with her and be their own boss. She wants to help others by guiding them to be successful.
Guzman enjoys spending time with her
JENELLE GUZMAN
... sister team breathes new life into the home cleaning field
family, especially her daughter and her sister’s two children. She spends a lot of time with her extended family as well.
Visit their website at https://www.wellpol- ishedcleaningservices.com.
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Retribution For Voting Rights Suppression
hinking of ways to gain revenge on lawmakers who
introduced and voted for voting rights suppression legislation enacted by Georgia, Florida, and 45 other states? Well, we have a few ideas and wish to share them with you today.
Indeed, everyone knows these laws were introduced and voted upon under the guise of voter security from election fraud by majority Republican lawmakers was a hoax. In the absence of proof of voter fraud, the real reason for the rash of changes to voting laws with more restrictive provisions is because of the historic turn out of Black voters all over America for the 2020 presiden- tial election.
Donald Trump supporters still making false claims of Democrats stealing the 2020 Election ignore the fact that Trump lost the popular vote of the 2016 Presiden- tial Election by more than 3 million votes.
After four years of government chaos, disfunction, and mismanagement, Trump lost by 90 million voters who stayed home or who didn’t register to vote in 2016, and who decided they would vote in 2020 to make sure Donald Trump didn’t win a second term.
So, the first thing every Black voter should do is to make sure two other Black 18 years or older persons register to vote for the 2022 elections. Imagine the number of Black voters increasing by 200%. That would really make Republicans mad.
Second, every Black person should choose the month of June 2021 to buy only food, medicine, and gas and buy only from Black businesses. Black consumers spend more than $1 trillion a year or around $84 billion a month. In just 30 days, sales for cellular phones, beauty and grooming products, personal soap and bath products, purchases from high end department stores and electronics would show a significant dip.
Third, Black people should then purchase or do business with companies that opposed the voting sup- pression laws, and department stores, jewelers, car dealers, shoe stores or any other merchandise outlets that hire at least 2 Black employees out of every 10 em-
ployees. Buy from merchants who hire people who look like you.
Fourth, do not patronize merchants, products, and companies that donate funds to radical Republican state and national legislative candidates. Lists of donors to candidates running for office can be found online or in the records of Supervisors
of Election offices.
Fifth, start writing and telephone campaigns to help older and disabled voters
request vote by mail ballots, and see that they are returned to Supervisors of elec- tions offices early.
If you have any other ideas, please share them with us. These are, indeed, the times that try our souls. But we must not be silent, least we wake up and find our- selves back in slavery.
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