Update: I just wanted to let everyone know that the campaign director mentioned below just stopped by to apologize profusely for his behavior yesterday.
Maybe he got wind of this diary and read some of the *better* suggestions... :)
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I live in a purple neighborhood of a blue city in a VERY red state and my neighbors are a mix of relatively silent moderates and progressives along with a good chunk of VERY VOCAL christo-fascist-nazi-bastards. I'm going to leave out any identifying particulars in this missive because I just don't trust my rabidly red neighbors to get it right.
I've had a handful of heated run-ins with one in particular (usually as a result of some action by one of my teenage boys) and the "red" side of those stories tend to spread like wild-fire through their circles until they get back to me very warped and distored. I'll admit that I usually don't handle these situations in the best possible way; I usually come off as one of those wacko liberals that they've convinced themselves don't deserve to breath their air.
Today.... we took it up a notch...
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