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Nevilledog

(51,196 posts)
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 09:54 PM Oct 2020

Effort to crowdfund portapotties for voters in line



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Folks: A standard portable toilet with hand sanitizer costs $249. We need your help. We are crowdfunding 401 portables toilets for voters in the south. Retweet and chip in here:

Help Us Crowdfund Portapotties For Voters In Line >
Chip in here to provide much-needed relief to our fellow Americans!
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Thekaspervote

(32,793 posts)
2. Thx for posting! Chipped in a few bucks. As President Obama said tonight change comes, but
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 09:59 PM
Oct 2020

It can be slow...I’m hopeful that it won’t always be this way.

Maybe they could put for Democrats only..make the gop voters suffer!! Seriously

Hekate

(90,787 posts)
3. Why buy them? Are there no rental companies near them?
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 10:48 PM
Oct 2020

Every march or fair or major fundraiser I’ve ever been to has featured a line of rent-a-johns.

Someone else brings them and takes them away afterward. Someone else empties and sanitizes them. Someone else stores them till the next event.

I find this desire to purchase kind of strange, as in, who besides the weary voter actually benefits?



Nevilledog

(51,196 posts)
4. I didn't think it was a purchase, but a rental fee. It's not very clear now that you point that out.
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 10:51 PM
Oct 2020

Hekate

(90,787 posts)
5. I've done a little event planning in my time, & sometimes my mind just goes there...
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 10:56 PM
Oct 2020

None of what I did ever involved my having to rent port-a-johns, so I don’t know what the going rate is (so to speak). For all I know that actually might be it — it just seemed at first glance to be high.

Nevilledog

(51,196 posts)
6. And my thought was a couple hundred bucks was peanuts to buy one.
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 10:58 PM
Oct 2020

Plus, you'd have to get rid of them and their contents.

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