State Farm Insurance agent Bud Gregg’s anti-Obama billboard in Mandeville, Louisiana had a shorter lifespan. It said: “A taxpayer voting for Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.” State Farm told Gregg to take it down. Knowing which side his bread is buttered on, he did.
Update: A concerned citizen” advised us that Gregg took the sign down before State Farm came calling. Uh-huh.
Perhaps the most desperate overreaching has come from the National Black Republican Association, headquartered in a Sarasota, FL apartment. Their billboard at exit 145 of I-26 in Orangeburg, South Carolina, reads: “Martin Luther King Jr. Was a REPUBLICAN”; seven similar billboards litter the Florida landscape. The King Center asked the NBRA’s chair, Frances Rice, 64, to take down the billboards, but she refused. In a prepared statement, Martin Luther King III said: “It is disingenuous to imply that my father was a Republican. He never endorsed any presidential candidate, and there is certainly no evidence that he ever even voted for a Republican. It is even more outrageous to suggest that he would support the Republican Party of today, which has spent so much time and effort trying to suppress African American votes in Florida and many other states.”