Manure load dumped at Democratic headquarters

636133503971874343-Manure.jpg

A load of manure was dumped outside the Democratic Party headquarters in Warren County.

"What reasonable person thinks this is OK????" party chair Bethe Goldenfield said in a post in the Greater Cincinnati Politics Facebook Group. "I won't be responding to anyone who thinks this is acceptable behavior. It is ILLEGAL!"

The same thing happened in 2012, Goldenfield noted. The suburban Cincinnati county is overwhelmingly Republican; Mitt Romney got 69 percent of the vote four years ago. It's been almost 40 years since a Democrat was elected to countywide office.

Goldenfield told The Enquirer the Warren County Sheriff's Office called her around 7:45 a.m. Saturday alerting her to the manure pile outside the Lebanon building. Deputies met party officials later to review video.

"Hopefully the perps will be held accountable for their actions," she said.

Jeff Monroe, chairman of the Warren County Republican Party, said the GOP had nothing to do with the manure "and has offered to help clean things up."


The Warren County Sheriff's office had no additional information. Goldenfield said the party hired a contractor to remove the pile.

There have been other incidents of party headquarter vandalism nationwide, to both parties. In North Carolina, someone firebombed the Orange County GOP headquarters. Earlier this month someone tossed a brick through the window of an Indiana Republican Party office.

Keith BieryGolick contributed

Reminds me of the flies attracted to Hillary's face during the debate.
 
27 years ago I was starting a 30' x 70' garden at my new house in upstate New York so drove my nearly new Ford Bronco over to my new farmer neighbor, introduced myself and, seeing a nice big pile of composted manure, a small tractor and wagon, and asked to pay him to deliver a load for me. Two hours later he shows up with a gargantuan tractor and manure spreader, loaded with fresh green semi-solid waste, and asked me where he should spread it.

I looked at the load and kind of shrugged my shoulders at the new neighbor's "unwelcome wagon" and showed him where. He lined up the tractor along the side of my relatively tiny tract and engaged the PTO. Nothing happened. He jumped out of the rig and looked at the back of his tractor and yelled over to me that he forgot the shear bolts. I called him over to my machinery barn were I had ample supplies of various nuts and bolts to rig and repair my equipment. I quickly found the correct sized bolts, grabbed some tools then walked back to his PTO and helped him install them. I could sense a slight tinge of guilt while we worked together, and he saw that his new neighbor who he was obviously shitting on, literally, wasn't the worthless urbanite that he had assumed.
 
Back
Top