Truckload of manure dumped at Ohio Democratic Party office
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A truckload of manure was dumped in front of the Warren County, Ohio, offices of the Democratic Party on Saturday. The poopy protest — perhaps inspired by a similar stunt at the French parliament in 2014 — was caught on security camera in the middle of the night, but the perpetrator has yet to be identified.
The chairman of the Warren County Republican Party said his organization had nothing to do with the manure dump and offered to help clean up the mess.
This comes less than a month after a county-level GOP office in North Carolina was firebombed. There, as in Ohio, the opposing party promptly pitched in for clean-up.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
