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<\/p>\nWhen you live in a Democrat stronghold like Saint Paul, you get used to the idea that your political signs are expendable. \u00a0Every single year, I put signs out on my lawn, on a modestly busy street (which is busier now that University looks like Stalingrad).<\/p>\n
And every year, they are stolen, or destroyed, almost immediately. \u00a0I think I had a sign last a week or two once. \u00a0 It happens to every single one of the Republican neighbors I have (who are rare, but do exist). \u00a0We’ve noticed over the years how uncanny it is, that our signs – on every street, simultaneously – will get vandalized.<\/p>\n
“It’s just kids”, say the local DFL operatives. \u00a0But for whatever reason my DFLer neighbor’s Dayton\/Obama\/Franken\/McCollum\/Klobuchar\/Kerry signs never got touched, even as serial waves of GOP contender signs did. \u00a0Wonder why that was?<\/p>\n
But that’s in St. Paul, a city with decades of one-party government.<\/p>\n
Up in the Alexandria, the Republicans are more established and the Democrats are more desperate.<\/p>\n
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It says “Don’t Feed the Animals”. \u00a0It’s a reference to a line from a Franson video earlier this year in which the freshman conservative rep said welfare treated people like animals. \u00a0The left yanked a sentence or two out of context<\/a> to make it sound like Franson was claiming welfare recipients\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>animals, and have spent months on a fairly unseemly heckling campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n Her opponent’s main campaign point, to the extent that he has one, has been trying to tie Franson to that non-statement.<\/p>\n It’s not isolated; the same stencil was apparently used on dozens of Franson’s signs. \u00a0Whoever did this put a fair amount of effort into it.<\/p>\n Now, the opponent would be stupid to actively approve such a move. \u00a0It’s a lot more likely that’s \u00a0an overzealous campaign volunteer doing some credit work.<\/p>\n Seriously – stencils? \u00a0That’s pretty elaborate, even for Saint Paul-level anti-GOP hate.<\/p>\n This is what Republicans face out there, no matter where they are.<\/p>\n