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"chickengate" could turn Iowa red this November, as dem Braley under fire
Posted on 8/11/14 at 4:44 pm
Posted on 8/11/14 at 4:44 pm
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The battle for control of the U.S. Senate could come down to a dispute between two neighbors in this heartland hamlet over four plump, wander-prone hens.
This spring, Pauline Hampton’s chickens roamed onto Bruce and Carolyn Braley’s vacation property on tranquil Holiday Lake. Hampton said she did not know this until she walked over one day to offer Carolyn a dozen fresh eggs. To which she said her neighbor replied, “We aren’t going to accept your eggs — and we have filed a formal complaint against you.”
Carolyn took her complaint to their neighborhood homeowners’ association board meeting in May. Her husband, Bruce, then called the association’s lawyer, Thomas Lacina, to say that he believed “chickens are not pets and should not be permitted at Holiday Lake,” and that he wanted to “avoid a litigious situation,” according to an e-mail Lacina wrote. Braley denied that he threatened a lawsuit.
Regardless, Hampton relented and built a wire fence in her back yard to contain the chickens. No harm, no fowl — in the Braleys’ yard, at least.
But the problem for Bruce Braley is that he’s a congressman and Iowa’s Democratic nominee for the Senate. And his Republican opponent, Joni Ernst, and her allies are seizing on the dispute to demonize Braley as an arrogant trial lawyer-turned-politician who’s anything but “Iowa nice.”
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Could you imagine if a wealthy republican did this? Doghead would be starting a thread daily on here about it.
One thing is for sure: reporting your neighbor for roaming chickens, and not accepting eggs as a friendly gesture, does not fly in a state like Iowa.
If I lived in the great state of Iowa, I would cast my vote for the Ernst.
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Posted on 8/11/14 at 4:59 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Well, at least in this case, we can answer the age-old question with some degree of confidence - the chickens definitely came before the eggs.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 5:02 pm to NHTIGER
Braley having a summer farm house reminded me of this great joke:
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A lawyer and two friends--a Rabbi, and a Hindu holy man--had car trouble in the countryside and asked to spend the night with a farmer.
The farmer said, "There might be a problem. You see, I only have room for two to sleep in the house. So one of you must sleep in the barn."
"No problem," chimed the Rabbi. "My people wandered in the desert for forty years. I am humble enough to sleep in the barn for one evening." With that he departed to the barn, and the others bedded down for the night.
Moments later a knock was heard at the door; the farmer opened the door. There stood the Rabbi from the barn. "What's wrong?" asked the farmer. He replied, "I am grateful to you, but I just can't sleep in the barn. There is a pig in the barn, and my faith believes that is an unclean animal."
His Hindu friend agrees to swap places with him. But a few minutes later the same scene reoccurs. There is a knock on the door. "What's wrong?" the farmer asks. The Hindu holy man replies, "I, too, am grateful for your helping us out, but there is a cow in the barn. In my country cows are considered sacred and I can't sleep on holy ground!"
That left only the lawyer to make the change. He grumbled and complained, but went out to the barn. Moments later there was another knock on the farmer's door. Frustrated and tired, the farmer opens the door, and there stood the pig and the cow.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 5:04 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 8/11/14 at 6:14 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Chickens are coming home to roost for these arrogant Dems. Senate will go red in November
Posted on 8/11/14 at 7:05 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Sounds like a major league biotch and cockhold of a husband. But they are democrats so that fits the profile...
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