rssAmericans for Prosperity Makes Anti-AstroTurf Signs
Friday, August 14, 2009 at 6:58 pm
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PITTSBURGH — At the start of Americans for Prosperity’s “Send Specter a Message Rally,” I talked to Esko and Rebecca Polvi, who were holding signs that read “I’m with Astroturf … ” and “NOT Paid to be Here.” The signs, it turned out, were part of a batch created by some Pennsylvania AFP volunteers. From the stage, AFP’s Dallas Woodhouse told the crowd to pick up a sign from a pre-made batch. Other slogans: “Kiss My AstroTurf!” and “Bonafide Grassroots American.”
Mocking the “AstroTurf” and “Brooks Brothers” and “angry mob” memes was a theme of nearly every speech at the rally, and many of the pre-made signs had small “AFP” markers on them. This isn’t a PR battle that AFP and its organizers think they’re losing; AfP President Tim Phillips told me that the campaign to “expose” the town hall protesters as “corporate plants” is backfiring on the Democrats.
Esko and Rebecca Polvi.
The signs on the stage.
Another sign, with a proud AFP stamp.
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