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When he isn't hanging out with Republicans from Asotin, Deryl McCarty is chatting with Republicans from King County.
Part way through my conversation with him today, McCarty handed off his phone to Lori Sotelo, chairwoman of the King County Republican Party.
Sotelo said she was "frustrated, but not discouraged" by the work of vandals who attacked a booth that her party set up over the weekend at the Bumbershoot festival in Seattle.
Unknown vandals tore open a tent, flipped over a table and tried to light parts of a display on fire
Republicans are accustomed to "challenging conversations" at Bumbershoot, Sotelo said.
"But this crosses a line," she said. "It's a different kind of assault."
Click ahead to read the press release issued by the King County Republican Party.
KING COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Lori Sotelo, Chairman
(206) 795-2049
Nathan Johnson, Executive Director
(206) 779-2382
KING COUNTY GOP BOOTH AT BUMBERSHOOT VANDALIZED
Late on Sunday evening, the King County Republican Party booth at Seattle ’s Bumbershoot festival was vandalized.
Unidentified individuals tore open the closed tent, flipped over the table holding all of the candidates’ literature, and proceeded to light parts of the display on fire. A person at a neighboring booth saw the flames and graciously extinguished them before further damage was done.
“There is just no room for this type of behavior in an important year such as this one,” said Chairman Lori Sotelo. “This incident sadly obscures what has otherwise been a great experience for us at Bumbershoot.”
For five years running, the KCGOP has had a booth at Bumbershoot with no major incidents of vandalism.
“I hope the persons accountable for this criminal intolerance understand the damage they have inflicted not only to the party booth but the festival itself,” said Chairman Sotelo.
Volunteers of the KCGOP gathered on Monday to help clean-up the booth and were able to restore it to some semblance of order.
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