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No politics as usual, just food

August 17th, 2009 at Mon, 17th, 2009 at 1:00 pm by Roy Jacobson

Unlike other political gatherings in the news, no one’s tried to shout down the volunteers at the Island County Democrats’ hot-dog stand.
“Everybody’s been well-behaved,” said Marshall Goldberg of Oak Harbor, former chairman of the county organization.
“We’re selling to anyone, not just Democrats,” he added. “We don’t ask people for their IDs.”
The county Republicans, meanwhile, were selling ice cream elsewhere on the midway and there was no chilling effect on fairgoers.
Goldberg said the hot-dog stand has run more smoothly since the group decided to separate the food booth from the political booth.
“There was too much confusion,” he said of the former set-up. “People didn’t want to have a political discussion when they were trying to get food.”

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