PORK, TURKEY AND PLENTY OF OIL

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http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/24/breast-of-show


...A group of about 150 activists gathered at Wildwood Park, off Lakeshore Boulevard, to rally and talk symbolism before making their way to the senator's house...


Police in unmarked cars prevented the group from going onto the senator's property, but as they walked, they distributed flyers in the neighborhood, and they left a dinner for the senator on a rolling cart on the sidewalk.

The menu included a bottle of cooking oil, which Coleridge said was symbolic of the cause of the war; a stuffed pig, symbolic of pork barrel contracts for the president's buddies; fake bacon, symbolic of what the senator hasn't been bringing home to his neighborhood; and a decorative turkey, which is what the group says the whole war is. There were also some jalapeno peppers, representing the people's anger.

Using data from costofwar.com, they distributed flyers telling neighbors that Voinovich's support of the war has cost Cleveland taxpayers more than $426 million so far, which is enough money to build 3,840 additional housing units, or hire 7,390 public school teachers for one year, or offer 20,674 Cleveland students four-year scholarships at public universities, or enroll 56,487 children in a Head Start program for one year, or provide health insurance for 255,376 children...


- Michael Gill