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In Mr. Pence’s New D.C. Neighborhood, Not Exactly The Welcome Wagon [Rainbow Flags Greeting]
Washington Post ^ | Ian Shapira.

Posted on 12/03/2016 7:31:25 PM PST by Steelfish

In Mr. Pence’s New D.C. Neighborhood, Not Exactly The Welcome Wagon

By Ian Shapira. December 3.

In the affluent Washington neighborhood of Chevy Chase, the tinsel, poinsettias and Christmas trees are competing for attention this holiday season with an unusual house decoration: gay pride rainbow flags.

When news filtered out in late November that Vice President-elect Mike Pence was temporarily moving into the white colonial with green shutters on Tennyson Street NW — in the heart of Chevy Chase, a liberal Democratic stronghold — neighbors decided to greet the Republican interloper with polite protest: rainbow flags flapping from their homes. It was time to Make Chevy Chase Great Again.

Mike Pence’s new neighbors greet him with rainbow flags] Now this isn’t San Francisco, South Beach or Provincetown. Most of the homeowners who ran out to buy the flags or ordered them online are straight.

But in this neighborhood of oak trees and single-family homes, where 85 percent voted for Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine and just 9 percent cast ballots for Donald Trump and Mike Pence, residents wanted to make clear where they stand. “I thought it would send a message in an appropriate way. One idea was to put a ‘Chevy Chase.

Hillary’ banner, but we thought that would be too in-your-face,” said Joanna Pratt, 66, an environmental consultant who came up with the idea and lives across the street from Pence. Now, at least seven homes on the street boast the flags — a response to Pence’s opposition over the years to equal rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: bluezones; chevychase; dc; homosexualagenda; pence; rudedems; trumptransition; urban
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To: Steelfish

It’s not illegal to burn a rainbow flag.


21 posted on 12/03/2016 7:43:13 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Steelfish
Related article from Fox News:

Mike Pence’s new neighbors put up LGBT pride flags in protest

22 posted on 12/03/2016 7:46:25 PM PST by upchuck (Obama once thought that he belonged to the ages. Now he belongs in the rubbish bin. h/t D.Greenfield)
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To: Steelfish

Pence needs to hold a nightly rainbow flag burning ceremony.


23 posted on 12/03/2016 7:49:18 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: editor-surveyor
Second most powerful is without question Speaker of the House.

Not in the case of the current one.

24 posted on 12/03/2016 7:50:30 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

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LOL! - The office, not the person.
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25 posted on 12/03/2016 7:55:46 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: upchuck

I find this very funny.

This is the way young children act.

He will be the only adult in the neighborhood.

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26 posted on 12/03/2016 7:57:09 PM PST by Mears
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To: editor-surveyor
Nope, head of the “federal reserve,” which is not a federal or “reserve” agency.
27 posted on 12/03/2016 7:58:29 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Steelfish
Most of the homeowners who ran out to buy the flags or ordered them online are straight.

If that is what you call someone who has never worked an honest day in their lives.

28 posted on 12/03/2016 7:59:46 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Fungi

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No.

A highly manipulative position to be sure, but still just one voice in a committee that votes to set their position.
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29 posted on 12/03/2016 8:01:16 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Steelfish
CHEVY CHASE?
30 posted on 12/03/2016 8:02:38 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Steelfish

Bargaining stage.


31 posted on 12/03/2016 8:09:47 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: Steelfish

Yet another fake news story. The naval observatory has no visible neighbors. None. Zero.


32 posted on 12/03/2016 8:12:18 PM PST by BlueCat
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To: Steelfish

But the fact that Huma Abedin was an editor for a Saudi magazine that condemned homosexuals and single mothers doesn’t bother these hypocrites one bit.


33 posted on 12/03/2016 8:13:27 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: Steelfish

There is no end to the idiocy of the liberals and homosexuals.


34 posted on 12/03/2016 8:13:50 PM PST by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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To: Steelfish

Chevy Chase must be so proud of its progressive tolerance, because nothing signals refinement quite like feces on a penis.


35 posted on 12/03/2016 8:16:43 PM PST by Always A Marine
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To: Steelfish
“I thought it would send a message in an appropriate way. One idea was to put a ‘Chevy Chase. Hillary’ banner, but we thought that would be too in-your-face,” said Joanna Pratt, 66, an environmental consultant who came up with the idea and lives across the street from Pence. Now, at least seven homes on the street boast the flags ...

Only seven homes giving the finger to our new Vice President AND those seven get a story in the Washington Post?

If some liberal elite hater goes over and pisses on Mike Pence's lawn the Washington Post will offer the guy a job as columnist. Not that the Post is taking sides... or encouraging violence against people who think differently than they do... Well, that is what they're doing - because they're biased jerks.

36 posted on 12/03/2016 8:19:39 PM PST by GOPJ ("Draining the Swamp" means dumping corrupt liberal elites...Jeremy Peters does NOT speak for us.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Please tell PRyn0 thst he has powers thst he has not yet exercised.


37 posted on 12/03/2016 8:25:12 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Steelfish

He should fly a Sowdie flag.


38 posted on 12/03/2016 8:26:09 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: BlueCat

FR protests to get interlopers outta Cheny’s house made me do a circumnavigation back in the day. You are totally correct.


39 posted on 12/03/2016 8:27:49 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: pollywog

Now there’s an idea!


40 posted on 12/03/2016 8:35:00 PM PST by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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