Posted on 09/01/2012 7:59:36 AM PDT by Military family member
A Republican candidate for Vigo County office claims he was booted from Terre Haute’s Labor Day Parade because of his party affiliation.
Caleb Fleschner, a Republican candidate running for Vigo County commissioner, said Friday afternoon politics are to blame for his removal from the parade line-up.
But Charles Toth, head of the Wabash Valley Central Labor Council AFL-CIO’s parade committee, said political affiliation had nothing to do with the rejection. Toth did say, however, that the organization does reserve the right to determine who participates in its event.
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Unfortunately, the Mayor here IS a Republican.
Sounds like time for a non-union laborer’s parade.
Maybe “Goat Boy” can herd his boys down there. They are apolitical.
WI Unions Try to Ban GOP from Labor Day Parade; Mayor Says Pound Sand (Video) (from Aug 29, 2011).
They would nibble them right in the buntings!
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