One line in a news story summed up the damage from the Republican Party’s attack on our community.
“Howell Area Parks and Recreation Authority Director Tim Church estimated there were at least 1,000 people in downtown Howell at any given time.”
The Howell Melon Fest, the event that usually brings 50,000 people to downtown Howell with money in their pockets to spend at local businesses, instead drew a peak crowd of 1,000.
And all so that the local GOP could stir up anger and outrage in their base by attacking a bingo game.
In the future, please spare me the rhetoric that Republicans support local businesses.
They don’t.
In the future, please spare me the rhetoric that Republicans support our local community.
They don’t.
In the future, please spare me the rhetoric that Republicans support farmers.
They don’t.
They were all collateral damage in the Republicans’ war on a bingo game.
It didn’t have to be that way. But it’s what happens when a political party has nothing to sell except phony outrage and anger.
You can expect nonstop outrage and anger between now and November 2022: at our school board meetings over masks; at our county commission meetings over parks that are accessible to all; and who knows where else.
The Howell Melon Fest was a victim of the GOP-manufactured war for outrage and anger. Who will be the next victims?
