JCR Blog

As you recall, Johnson County Republicans joined the Nussle and Leach campaigns in handing out FREE cold bottles of water the morning of the RAGBRAI ride into Coralville.

I was skeptical of the reports we heard from one or two riders jokingly that the Democrats were selling water earlier on the route. But it WAS TRUE! Democrats WERE using the opportunity to raise money instead of generating good will. They were set up a couple miles before us, as shown in this e-mail notice:

LOCATION: The RAGBRAI/Blue State Lemonade stand will be located at 1186 Black Diamond Rd. SW, the farm home of Stan & Noreen Yoder . . .

FRIDAY, 9AM, 11AM, 1PM: We need volunteers!!! Can you spare a few
hours to help the Dems make some money? Take a few hours of that vacation
time you’re about to lose and join us. It will be hot, but it will be fun,
and the heavy lifting will be done by 9am. When you RSVP to me about
volunteering, please include your mobile number or day time number, so I can
call you if we are all sold out before you arrive.

Guess I can't fault them for their enterprise, making money is the american way after all. Still a bit ironic isn't it -- we Republicans being the generous ones while the Dems are the misers.