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Not my president’s day protest draws 300+

A sunny day brought more than 300 protesters out. This is “just my photos” of “not my president’s day”. One person was putting a Trump doll under car tires. Some ran it over. A few swerved. Some had no idea what was going on and were unnerved by something in the road. Some danced. Many talked and caught up with old friends. The day was summer-like. Honking was near constant, although most cars didn’t honk. A big truck blared its big air horn at some point. There was no sign of a counter-protest this time. Protest is an American tradition going back to the Boston Massacre, Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams. While the English disliked it largely, it was also inherited from the French who helped America gain its freedom. Its usually been humans, but not today. .Dogs were for whatever was going on, although their politics could not be verified.

This dog may have been very serious about politics, or may have been eyeing Brutus.

You have to spell it out sometimes!

The Trump doll seems to defy his tormenters. The doll brought some frowns as well as laughs, cheers and boos.
This guy dodged the doll at the last minute. I would never run over ANYTHING like that in the road. Im sure the doll owners could have gotten a ticket for his
A pickup runs over the doll, but like his master, the doll keep coming back. Was this appropriate? Funny?
This driver got cheers for running over the Donald Trump doll. Not sure if they could even see it.
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Frank Hartzell has spent his lifetime as a curious anthropologist in a reporter's fedora. His first news job was chasing news on the streets of Houston with high school buddy and photographer James Mason, back in 1986. Then Frank graduated from Humboldt State and went to Great Gridley as a reporter, where he bonded with 1000 people and told about 3000 of their stories. In Marysville at the Appeal Democrat, the sheltered Frank got to see both the chilling depths and amazing heights of humanity. From there, he worked at the Sacramento Bee covering Yuba-Sutter and then owned the Business Journal in Yuba City, which sold 5000 subscriptions to a free newspaper. Frank then got a prestigious Kiplinger Investigative Reporting fellowship and was city editor of the Newark Ohio, Advocate and then came back to California for 4 years as managing editor of the Napa Valley Register before working as a Dominican University professor, then coming to Fort Bragg to be with his aging mom, Betty Lou Hartzell, and working for the Fort Bragg Advocate News. Frank paid the bills during that decade + with a successful book business. He has worked for over 50 publications as a freelance writer, including the Mendocino Voice and Anderson Valley Advertiser, along with construction and engineering publications. He has had the thrill of learning every day while writing. Frank is now living his dream running MendocinoCoast.News with wife, Linda Hartzell, and web developer, Marty McGee, reporting from Fort Bragg, California.

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