Volunteer at Minnesota State Fair's Republican Party Booth Reports Being Groped After Argument

[Judi Lynn]

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS 5:12 PM EDT

(FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn.) — Police at the Minnesota State Fair say they’re investigating after a volunteer at the Republican Party booth reported being groped through her clothes after a political argument with another woman.

The 40-year-old GOP volunteer told police her assailant walked away after the incident Friday night.

The Star Tribune reports that State Fair police spokeswoman Brooke Blakey declined to say what part of the victim’s body was groped. The assailant was described as a woman in her 30s.

. . .

The party’s state chairwoman, Jennifer Carnahan, told KSTP-TV that other people also have been hostile while visiting the booth. She says people have used foul language and obscene gestures against volunteers, cursed President Donald Trump and poured drinks on merchandise.

https://time.com/5661105/minnesota-fair-republican-booth-assault/

(Short article, no more at link.)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I walked past that booth the other day,

and it looked pretty lame, sparsely populated by the usual suspects - old white people. There were a couple of life-sized cardboard effigies of Trump and Pence you could take selfies with (I didn't get close enough to check whether the Trump cutout was actually 6'3" but knowing what bozos the GOP are they probably made it even taller). There was also a large sign pointing to "merchandise."

It didn't occur to me to go into the booth to confront those morons, since it wouldn't make any difference and would just piss me off, so I walked away, bought and ate a Pronto Pup instead.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Could be they started getting a little lonely in there and started calling out to visitors.... n/t

[Strelnikov_]

4. You have Pronto Pups?

Damn.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Yes. They've been sold at the fair for as long as I can remember.

I always have one when I attend the fair.

[whistler162]

9. To bad you didn't have any Febreeze

to spray in front of the booth to improve the smell.

[Downtown Hound]

3. If true, not okay (the groping, could care less about the cursing of Trump)

But never underestimate the Republican capacity for eternal victimhood and martyrdom

[Strelnikov_]

5. . . . Carnahan, without evidence, . . .

Per article yesterday in Star-Tribune . . .

"While no information was available about the political affiliation of the alleged suspect, Carnahan, without evidence, contended that she and her staff were "harassed and threatened by Democrats." "

[blm]

6. If you work a proTrump booth you're saying you're OK with pussigrabbing

Aren’t you? And working with Russia against the US. And mocking those with disabilities. And not paying your workers. And praising neo-nazis as very fine people.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Sounds a lot like the "Ashley Todd mugging hoax" which claimed an Obama supporter carved a giant "B"

on her face because "Barack" in 2008.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Todd_mugging_hoax

[yellowcanine]

10. Pouring drinks on merchandise. Oops, so sorry!

Could easily be an accident. Drinks spill all the time, sometimes in spectacular ways....

[Olafjoy]

11. Taking my mom to fair tomorrow

If we walk by their booth, I will say something, sans profanity. I fly out to take mom to fair every year. Last year Tim Walz and Peggy Flanagan at the DFL booth. Great energy. Did not see the rethug booth last year. My favorite is the corn 🌽. Delish. Mom loves her mini donuts and cup of coffee to get the day started. ♥️ The MN state fair!! AZ state fair is a sad sad thing. We go anyway.

[RhodeIslandOne]

12. The Grand Old Perverts will blame Al Franken...

.......and Kristen Gillibrand will call a press conference.