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Conservatives Stole Farmers Sanders Signs, So He Plowed Bernies Name Into His Field
AUTHOR: JOHN PRAGER NOVEMBER 21, 2015 3:20 PM
Its not exactly news that conservatives resort to shady tactics like defacing and stealing campaign paraphernalia, but what one farmer did in response is simply amazing. Iowa farmer Mike Pattavina loves Bernie Sanders. After our friends on the Right stole a few traditional campaign signs from his yard, the soybean farmer used his skills to create a sign they couldnt take by plowing a quarter-acre Bernie into his field in 60-foot letters.
The 68-year-old farmer says that, inspired by his experiences with theft of his property by someone in ultra-conservative Clarinda, he got the idea while going about his daily business:
Pattavina has farmed his entire life, but this masterpiece was the first time he has used his land to make a political statement and dont worry, the soybeans were already harvested, so it didnt hurt anything when he free-handed the letters in his field.
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I just want people to see it, and maybe, hopefully, some people can see it from the air, he said. Just to show support for Bernie.
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No matter what, its going to be very difficult for the conservatives with whom Pattavina is surrounded to steal this sign. After he finished his tribute to Sanders, he joked, Well, Id like to see them steal this one.
Alkene
(752 posts)Just one down-to earth American.
Feel it!
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Jeroen
(1,061 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)How do we know it was the "evil-doers" on the right?
trumad
(41,692 posts)I have video cameras recording it. You can clearly see Feel The Bern on the t-shirts of the thiefs.
I just made all that up...see how it works.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)--imm
packman
(16,296 posts)I learned that lesson for a horticulture friend of mine when I was making a little flowerbed in front of my house. "Shit" he said. "Go big" and I ended up doing both sides of my driveway with pines, bushes, flowers, etc. The mulch alone cost a small fortune. But it was glorious .
A to farmer Pattavina
brentspeak
(18,290 posts)Orrex
(63,216 posts)Intractable Sanders fans, de facto Republican voters, same difference.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Great signage.