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McCain Voters Out and Proud in Park Slope
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John Del Signore
Published Oct 22, 2008
Modified Oct 22, 2008
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Published Oct 22, 2008
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After reporting on such freaks of nature as black McCain supporters in NYC and, um, an immaculately conceived tomato, the Times has now discovered a pocket of "real America" right in the Socialist-Terrorist Obama Hussein hotbed of Park Slope! No less than four brownstones on one block of 11th Street are displaying signs for McCain, in a district that has just 51 Republicans out of 643 registered voters. 73-year-old Betty Donohue has lived there since '60s, when her block was mostly Roman Catholic: "'Now these professionals, they both work, they have nannies and their meals on wheels,” she said, using her favorite description of restaurant deliveries. 'But lovely people. To pay these prices, you aren’t getting riffraff.'" (Just elitists.) Donohue's anti-Obama neighbor Bob Olson says, "I’m a perverse kind of guy. I was going to put up a sign that said: ‘Nobama. Keep the Change.'"
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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