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Posted on 08/12/2013 3:01:56 PM PDT by llevrok
ELMA — A partisan dispute briefly eclipsed the fun at the Grays Harbor County Fair on Friday when the director of the fair had to ask Republicans to stop shooting Nerf guns at a poster poking fun at Democrats.
Since Wednesday, the Grays Harbor Republicans have had a poster of a donkey up in their booth in the fairgrounds pavilion. The donkey states, “Help me try out Obamacare! I don’t know what’s covered because I haven’t read it yet.” And there’s a bull’s eye with points like a dart board on the donkey’s forehead and the donkey’s rear end.
Former Grays Harbor Democratic chairman Patrick Wadsworth, who is currently the party’s secretary, said he was offended by not just the poster, but the fact that people were shooting darts at the poster. A donkey is the classic representation of the Democratic Party. He called it “right-wing hatred.”
“To disagree is fine, but this is hatred, and is not acceptable,” Wadsworth said in an email to his fellow Democrats. “The fair is for promoting fun not hatred.”
Wadsworth encouraged Democrats to call and complain to the fairgrounds’ office. And complain they did — to the point that Fair Director Mike Bruner requested the Republicans stop letting people shoot at the poster.
“We got a few calls from the public and we need to keep things from being too controversial,” Bruner said. “We found some middle ground in that it was free speech to allow them to keep the poster up itself, but shooting at it, perhaps, rose to an inappropriate level. This really was a compromise because there were some people who just wanted the poster taken down altogether.”
“The Democrats showed their true colors when in a desperate attempt to make up for getting outdone in every way, shape, and form at the Grays Harbor County Fair, pulled out their box of made up diversion tactics and posted that the GOP was hateful in having a banner of a donkey’s rear-end with a target on it and allowing children to shoot foam darts at it,” Grays Harbor Republican Chairwoman Beth DeVaul said. “The Fair Manager asked us to stop the shooting and we complied with their request. Well, Dems, we would have allowed you to play, too. We don’t discriminate. It was a game. No actual animals were injured in the photography or in shooting at the image. Also, Nerf guns and darts are sold at most toy stores. They are harmless. If you disagee with the Dems and would like to support the Grays Harbor GOP, please stop by and patronize one of our booths at this year’s fair. We are selling Fish & Chips and Pizza in our food booth in the former 4-H food booth location and have our information booth in the usual location in the pavilion.”
The Grays Harbor Democrats have a booth and also are selling “Demo-Burgers” in the food court area.
WA state ping
This little Dem apparatchik would look the other way if union goons came through the fair and beat down anyone who resisted the Dem message.
Sounds like once again the Dems called out the Waaaaaaaahmbulance.
The MSM can screw off!
DO NOT MAKE FUN OF THE JACKASS!
Sounds like damned good fun to me.
Rats cant stand the truth about the steaming pile called Obamacare. If you criticize it yore just a hater.
I don’t get it. The democrats and their leader like it in the ass.
They should just be glad it’s still only nerfs flying.
“Hateful”is in the eyes of the beholder. I find the Demo-burger hateful and offensive.
Instead of stuffed toys, prizes could range from bandages, to thermometers, to complete first aid kits.
With lots of free informational newsletters to (hopefully) inform some of the masses.
WA Ping
"Democratic chairman Patrick Wadsworth, who is currently the party’s secretary, said he was offended by not just the poster, but the fact that people were shooting darts at the poster."
Of course he was offended. That's what liberals do and "offended" is their new buzz word for killing your right to the 1st Amendment, the 2nd Amendment, the 5th Amendment and any conservative values or human tendencies that they don't agree with.
Does anyone else but me remember the movie made during Bush’s administration about a fictional account of his assassination and how gleeful the left was about the entire thing?
There is a sound reason the dem’s mascot is a jackass.
For those not familiar with Washington state politics, Republicans are so fearful in this state they identify their party as “GOP” on voting ballots, not Republican.
In my upper middle class voting District east of Seattle, we have elected exactly ONE Republican in the last 4 years.
Our “Republican” is a state senator who actively supported gay marriage and cannot make a speech without bragging about his “bi-partisanship” on every other important issue.
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