New Jersey, 2008 or Mississippi, 1964?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

By Mike Sedita

I got some news today that really made me think twice about where I live. As the election season progressed, and it looked more and more like an Obama win, the anger in Warren County became visible. Every election, signs are stolen. But this year, they were stolen, damaged, defaced, destroyed, and burned. In some cases, additional property damage was done. There was a constant stream of people coming into Democratic headquarters reporting these problems.

In one particularly nasty incident, an Obama sign, stapled to a plywood panel and screwed to a tree high off the ground, was torn down. The Obama sign was burned off, and a pornographic portrayal of the candidates was drawn and obscenities scrawled on the plywood. The plywood was nailed back to the tree.

On Tuesday evening, a campaign worker was assaulted when she held up a sign near a polling place. She was shaken, but fortunately unharmed.

But by far the worst example of hate and rage occurred last night. The eight year-old daughter of a couple who worked hard campaigning here and in Pa. had created an Obama Victory '08 banner out of a bed sheet which they hung outside. Some thugs stole the banner and returned after midnight, burning a six-foot cross wrapped in the banner on their front lawn. They saw the remains when they left their house this morning to take the girl to school.

http://www.bluejersey.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=9656

I know Mike. He is a guy who went from a DFA trainee in 2004 to County Dem Chairman, a powerful position. A straight shooter and great guy, he and his SO, Dolly, have done so much for the Dems out here. If he told me the sky was plaid, I'd take him at his word. This is the county where I live. In New Jersey.

[Kahuna]

1. Welcome back! I hope you're feeling better. ...

:pals:

And yes, you know that your county is...em..like that. :(

[Libertyfirst]

2. Neither hatred nor stupidity are limited by neither era or geography.

That's why I take offense when people pick on a place, time, country, state,city,race or religion. Hatred and stupidity are never in short supply. If we could convert them to energy the energy crisis would be solved.