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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Bill Mayer Decides to Dress and Act Like a Turkey for Thanksgiving--Baah Humbug!

Local residents in need of a donated Thanksgiving dinner and meals for the week ran away from the food lines at the pantry donation center today. 

Local politician William (Bill) Mayer turned the "food for needy families" into a three ring circus this morning when the media was notified and appeared to witness and capture his show-boating circus act.  Dressing up in a turkey outfit and shaking residents hands, he asks for them to vote for him in the next set of elections. 

However, needy residents, choosing to go hungry rather than have themselves publicly viewed picking up food donations, were upset.  One resident states, "It is hard enough to be unemployed and poor.  It is hard enough to tell my children why there will not be a Thanksgiving dinner this year, thanks to Mr. Bill Mayer.  What is worse is that the entire world would have known I am poor and cannot feed my kids, had I stayed...  Who will hire me after they see me picking up free food?  All because some local politicians decide to use the poor as a political agenda.  Shameful...(choked up)".  As she spoke to us, she was in tears.

Dressing and acting like a turkey to try to get votes by manipulating what should be a charity event for the poor to instead be a campaign event for Bill Mayer.  Shameful.  We have many things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.  Bill Mayer dressing and acting like a turkey is not one of them.

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for letting us know the true heart of our local political cronies and friends of Claar.

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  2. If this is the same thanksgiving dinner handout I was at you have miss information. I did see Bill Mayer there but he was not dressed in turkey outfit. He may have been warmer if he was. Bill was handing out food directing traffic and freezing his ass off like all the other people there. As far as asking people to vote for him I call bullshit. Did he shake hands yes as he should.
    I am sorry to hear people turned away for fear of what people would think. I believe there was a sign up for dinners and a plan to spread out the time everyone showed up to keep things orderly.
    I have not read anything yet of how Bill Mayer got the food pantry up and running again right after the oil spill shut them down.

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  3. Why is my comment not getting posted? Is it not what you wanted to hear.

    Dave

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