Little Kids Threw Candy at GOP Candidate

I attended Battle Ground, WA’s annual Harvest Day’s parade. Battle Ground is mostly a very conservative little hamlet about 10-miles north of Portland, Oregon. At times during the parade, local candidates for city, state, and U.S. office strolled by and handed out candy in a very traditional fashion (complete with kissing babies and working the crowd).

Every time someone walked by handing – or throwing – candy to the crowds standing along the streets, kids would literally go bonkers.

While one particular snake in the grass Republican candidate (list of them here) walked by trying to shmooze the kidlets, my heart swelled with pride when kids literally starting throwing the candy BACK – ANGRILY – at the candidate. Now this was really, really weird. Not because there was a weird collection of candidates running for local seats that all had last names that sounded like the f-word (last names like “Heck”, “Vick”, “Peck”, etc). The name of the candidate who got pelted with candies from local kids was none other than ED ORCUTT.

This little hamlet of Battle Ground showed a lot of signs during the parade that it was changing its stripes and broadening its horizons. The literally clapped and cheered for Democratic candidates. And I saw the candidates actually engaging with people in the crowds to talk about issues.

Pretty neat.