Red Dawn: Grand Junction Billboard Notes Russian-Republican Connection

Colorado Times Recorder ^ | July 24, 2018 | Erik Maulbetsch

[Yosemitest]

As the clock struck midnight last Sunday, Grand Junction night owls saw red–literally.
The digital billboard looming over Rimrock Marketplace now displays a massive crimson and yellow “GOP,” but with the “O” replaced by the Russian hammer & sickle icon used by the former Soviet Union.

Mesa County progressives purchased the billboard to call out the Republican Party’s refusal to challenge Trump’s apparent preference for Russian denials of election interference over the unanimous assessment of United States intelligence agencies.

Grand Junction resident Anne Landman, who paid for the billboard, says its purpose is to draw attention “Republicans’ alarming acceptance of President Trump cozying up to authoritarian dictators who disregard human rights.”

While musing about a billboard on her Facebook page, a friend shared a photo of the GOP Russia design.
Landman reached out to the creator, MadDogPac of Odenton, Maryland and received permission to use the image free of charge.
Mad Dog PAC was founded in December 2017 by Claude Taylor, a former White House staffer under President Clinton.
The organization says it “solicits contributions from concerned citizens to fund billboards censuring Trump, the GOP and the NRA.”

The fine print on the board reads “Paid for by informed citizens of Mesa County and Mad Dog Pac.”
Landman says the “informed citizens” aren’t an official group of any sort, but rather friends and like-minded Mesa County residents.

The Russian GOP billboard isn’t the only piece of Mad Dog’s artwork to appear in Colorado.
Drivers in the Denver metro area may have seen a billboard reminding them that “Mike Coffman Took $30,843 in NRA Blood Money.”

The Grand Junction billboard isn’t targeted at a specific elected official, but rather focuses on the Russia-friendly attitude of the Republican Party.
Furthermore, it reflects the sentiments of Mesa County progressives who are decidedly outnumbered, according to Landman.



Says Landman,


“Out here on the Western slope, liberals are in the minority.
These days we are derided, criticized, called names like ‘libtard’ or ‘snowflake.’
But putting this billboard up, it’s lifted everybody’s spirits.
It’s become a rallying point, energizing the left and giving people something to cheer for.
For that alone it was worth the money.”

Landman paid for the first week herself and has since solicited donations via her Facebook page to extend the billboard rental beyond July 28.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Landman says she has collected over $180 towards the $265 need for a second week’s rental fee, with more promised to come.

[Yosemitest]

These crazy liberals don't have any though as to just how much the Democrats ARE National Socialists !

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[Kazan]

Is Anne transgendered?

[Steely Tom]

The USSR died 27 years ago. Maybe this bimbo missed that news.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Meanwhile they welcome Mexican colonists with open arms.....

[BookmanTheJanitor]

[JBW1949]

That picture at the end of the story is a woman???????????????

[shelterguy]

She looks like a dude, Jim.

[Yosemitest]

From my research, she's married, and is an atheist.

[dfwgator]

Funny, it was perfectly ok for the Democrats to influence Russian elections:

[MtnClimber]

The democRATs are so deluded, they don’t realize that it was Hildabeast, the DNC and 0bama colluding with the Russians.

[dfwgator]

The USSR died 27 years ago. Maybe this bimbo missed that news.

Democrats aren't too bright, aren't they?

[Regulator]

She doesn’t even know what century it is, much less when the Soviet Union died.

Her brain is back in ‘72, when she took her Earth Shoes and unshaven armpits up to GJT from some liberal arts college in the Northeast so she could pretend to go “back to the Earth”...as long as she could have central heating and air conditioning, a Volvo, and subsidized medical insurance.

[null and void]

Grand Junction resident Anne Landman, who paid for the billboard, says its purpose is to draw attention “Republicans’ alarming acceptance of President Trump cozying up to authoritarian dictators who disregard human rights.”

Anne was A-OK with obama bowing to the Saudi king, weren't you dearie?

[GSWarrior]

What a bunch of libtards and snowflakes.

[Slyfox]

Out here on the Western slope, liberals are in the minority.

I have friends up that way. They are die-hard conservative. Kinda like Alaskan independent types.

She ought to move to Denver to be with all her pot head friends.

[butlerweave]

Drama Queen

[kaktuskid]

And Clinton and the ChiComs

[Yosemitest]

She's in a personal WAR AGAINST all elected Republicans.

Billboard urges people to not vote for Senator Ray Scott

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember when the Leftists wanted America “BETTER RED THAN DEAD!”

If the GOP is now commie why are the leftists still screaming about Russia!

[Paine in the Neck]

It is gobsmacking how the left can execute these historical inversions so effortlessly.