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'McCaining' leads to tickets for supporters
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| News Date | Friday, October 24, 2008 04:15:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A night of "McCaining" led to five Fond du Lac residents receiving $1,018 worth of disorderly conduct citations and one Barack Obama bumper sticker.
Darryn Shipton, 26, said he is one of more than an estimated 30 to 40 John McCain supporters who at one time or another have been traveling the streets of Fond du Lac in a pickup truck bearing a large McCain/Palin campaign sign.
Shipton and his fellow McCain supporters also have Halloween masks of the Arizona senator and Republican Party presidential candidate.
A video shot by a friend of Shipton shows three people — all wearing McCain masks — asking workers at the Fond du Lac County Democratic Party headquarters on South Main Street Tuesday night if they had any Obama bumper stickers. The group was told by campaign workers to leave and did so.
A second video shows a verbal exchange between two Barack Obama supporters and young people in the truck. The conversation is about the price of stickers and supporting McCain.
A third video cuts off before an apparent exchange of money.
Shipton said the Democratic Party campaign workers called the Fond du Lac Police Department on Tuesday night and made statements about the McCain supporters being disruptive at the Democratic headquarters.
"I'm pretty fired up about this," Shipton said. "There were no laws broken, nothing illegal, nothing disorderly at all. It's our right to go around yelling 'McCain' at the top of our lungs all we want." |
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