Raging Grannies group, et. al. == Progressives party it up in Wisconsin

[L. Coyote]

Progressives party it up in Wisconsin
Andy Manis / For The Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-progressives11sep11,1,4911020.story?coll=la-default-underdog&ctrack=2&cset=true

Off the usual campaign trail, a fair draws more people across the political spectrum to celebrate, or just to see, some old-fashioned liberalism.
By P.J. Huffstutter, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 11, 2007


BARABOO, Wis. — As Russell Beecher, a lifelong Republican, wandered through the political picnic at the Sauk County Fairgrounds this weekend, he was reeling from the celebration of all things liberal.

Inside the fair's pole barn, hawkers sold hundreds of neon-orange "Impeach Bush!" T-shirts and "Say No to War!" buttons. Grandmothers in floppy flower-print hats gabbed about universal healthcare coverage. Aging hippies, gathering petition signatures to pull troops from Iraq, stood side by side with volunteers for presidential candidates registering voters and handing out bumper stickers.



.... Each year in this rural community of about 10,700, farmers, city dwellers and political junkies from across the Midwest gather to honor Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette -- a firebrand who, nearly a century ago, fought against railroad trusts, the U.S. entering World War I and the League of Nations. Once a Republican governor and senator, he grew so disdainful of the party system that he helped found the state's progressive movement.

He was also an inspiration to a group of modern progressives looking to celebrate liberalism. .....

[durrrty libby]

1. Green Rummy is superb

[BrklynLib at work]

2. Gee. I hope they are dressed properly and not "making fools of themselves" or yelling too loudly...

:sarcasm:

..in case it was not obvious...

[L. Coyote]

3. WHY? It's a party, for goodness sake!! Gotta love the B&W stripes.

This is not a Congressional hearing, after all!

[BrklynLib at work]

5. heh heh heh good one

[opihimoimoi]

4. GOOD GRANNIES...they got REASON and a sense of the COMMON GOOD

sumpthin the GOP lacks...