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.
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7 jerks show disrespect and it makes national news?
The problem is that you'd be supporting the homo-industry by buying their fag flags. I guess you could draw one on paper, but the effect would be lost.
In the open cesspool of Washington, DC, it’s convenient to know that the floaters in Chevy Chase identify themselves.
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