Dooing a little Or

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Dooing a little? Or dooing a lot?

Rep. John Doolittle (R) is one of Congressman Free-Mealers noted in the post below. But there’s also this weird story about a roadside bill board that I’d love to hear more about.

Former Congressman Pete McCloskey put together a group of moderate Republicans who call themselves Revolt of the Elders (basically an anti-wingnut group, as far as I can tell). And they raised $41,500 for a year long ad whacking Doolittle on an electronic sign at the Roseville Auto Mall.

But after a few weeks, the sign went down. Suddenly the political ad was in violation of some list of permitted uses that no one had ever heard of before.

Doolittle’s Chief of Staff told the Sacramento Bee: “We did not ask the auto mall to take them down. We’ve had several people call who were upset by the political nature of the signs, so I could understand why the mall would be concerned about their sign being a repository for McCloskey’s liberal political agenda.”

Has anyone heard anything more about this? Is it another sign of creeping bamboozlepaloozaism?

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