John Cronin, the award-winning co-founder of John’s Loopy Socks, advised “Fox Information Primetime” he hopes to finish congressional infighting along with his artistic footwear.
Cronin, the primary businessman with Down syndrome to win the Entrepreneur Of The 12 months: New York award, advised host Rachel Campos-Duffy his objective is to present a pair of socks to each one of many 535 members of Congress.
“My concept; I create a unity sock, and I give the socks to all of the members of Congress… to convey everyone collectively: No combating, no violence” mentioned John, who joined this system along with his father and John’s Loopy Socks co-founder Mark Cronin.
“We had a easy concept. All of us have extra in frequent than we do this separates us. Even with our completely different backgrounds and completely different views. We have now to recollect the promise of this nation that binds us collectively, and we made socks,” Mark added.
John Cronin advised Campos-Duffy he just lately met with bipartisan New York lawmakers to present them socks: Lengthy Island Reps. Andrew Garbarino, a Republican, and Thomas Suozzi, a Democrat.
“Rachel, John is an previous hand at this. He has testified twice earlier than Congress now. He is spoken on the United Nations. One factor he does; individuals are individuals. He treats individuals straight up, not by title, not by energy base,” Mark added.
John’s Loopy Socks, in keeping with its web site, earned $1.7 million in income in its first full yr in enterprise, and expanded to $5.5 million in income in its second yr. The corporate additionally workers 31 individuals, together with 21 who’ve a ‘differing means.’
Fox Information’ Frank Miles contributed to this report.
