Our local group, Four Rivers Indivisible, has been very active in the McConnell stronghold of far western Kentucky this year. From anti-Mitch and Vote Early billboards, to a YouTube of Kentuckians expressing the harms of Mitch McConnell, to my “Burma-Shave” style anti-Mitch signs, we are doing our part.
- McConnell Burma-Shave Sign Saga Including the Conservative Neighbors
- Which Side Are You On? Video from Four Rivers Indivisible
- We Can’t Afford Six More Years Mitch!
We also took part in a nationwide Indivisible action by taking flowers and message cards to Mitch McConnell’s Paducah Senate office the day she was lying in state at the U.S. Capitol.
Last week, the Burma-Shave style signs on our small farm property were vandalized again. Every single sign was covered with black paint or broken. That’s 10 signs, on two different road frontages. And the McGrath campaign sign was sprayed on one side only, the side that said “Defend Democracy” of course.
I was going to leave the damaged signs up so the people driving to church on Sunday would see them. But my spouse was out on the Gator pulling them up before I knew it Saturday afternoon when we found them damaged. He was disgusted and planning to put them on the burn pile. I asked that we wait and think about it until the next morning.
The next day, he said he had an idea. Why not create an “art project” with the debris, maybe use some trash cans. And he built the “sculpture.” We discovered we would need to lean it against our 28 year old farm truck, so that provided some opportunities, although he worried over someone damaging the truck. Over this last week I have added signs and some laminated posters we used at a Moral Mondays Car Caravan in Paducah recently at McConnell’s office. We store the “sculpture” and the laminated signs (with magnetic strips) at night and put it back out each day. I had two laminated posters made of photos I had of the original sign sets, you can see in the photos.
I have had about 8 conversations with neighbors stopping when they see me out there working on the signage over the course of the week. All but three have been clear they support Trump and McConnell but are disturbed about this happening.
- One took photos, not sure if she posted those anywhere.
- One of the three is a Democratic neighbor I talk to occasionally and another was clearly a religious conservative by her dress that said there were problems with “both sides” and people just needed to choose and respect other people’s choices.
- The third never stated her politics but stopped because she was curious, and turned out her son and mine are close friends.
So that part has been interesting. I get some honks and waves, including a honk from one of those pickup trucks with the giant TRUMP flags flying from the back.
Four Rivers Indivisible is continuing to raise funds and would like to get enough to run some anti-Mitch radio spots locally. The link for donating through Indivisible Project at Act Blue is bit.ly/4riversdonate.
We are proud of the work we have been doing, especially our Vote Early billboard:
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Written by Leslie McColgin. Cross-posted from Daily Kos.