I live in this County. Read the whole article to see how local and state Republicans react to our god-given right to protest. It's kinda comical, actually.
He thinks they doth protest too muchThursday, October 07, 2004By Dan Majors, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe race for president took a raucous turn yesterday when an overzealous supporter of President Bush took on a group of chanting boosters for John Kerry on Greensburg's busy Main Street.
At lunchtime, 13 Kerry supporters gathered in front of the Westmoreland County Courthouse to bang a drum, chant slogans and exchange banter, thumbs-ups and other hand signals with passers-by.
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Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters is directly across Main Street. The people inside closed the windows and lowered the blinds.
A little after noon, a man who looked to be in his 50s ran out the front door of the Republican office building, crossed the four-lane Main Street, and grabbed Lainie Maloy's big blue Kerry banner.
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Upstairs at the Bush headquarters, Latrobe Republican Judy DiJoseph peered down at the chanting group. She'd come by for a yard sign, she said, and stumbled onto the drama.
"That's Satan out there," she said, "trying to bring down our campaign. It's good versus evil. Those are desperate people.">snip<
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04281/391761.stm