Getting set for @JohnsonCoDems BBQ w @senatorsanders & Stabenow. Suggesting #JCDemsBBQ for hashtag
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Silent auction items include genuine Harkin Steak Fry worn Deeth Blog beret with Certificate of Authenticity. Will autograph #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Another item I donated:
Cha, cha, cha, chia. pic.twitter.com/eGkCuzOn2O
— Nick Fetty (@nick_fetty) October 5, 2014
To the top bdder: All-expenses paid trip to beautiful Sutliff! I'll drive, I'll buy! #JCDemsBBQ
— Rod Sullivan (@rodsullivan111) October 5, 2014
Winner: Jan Hook of Solon
Here at fairgrounds but not in service: the Votemobile! You'll have to wait till Friday night in Lone Tree pic.twitter.com/oMhrEwK2B7
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Let's play poker for a great cause in electing Democrats. #JCDemsBBQ silent auction item. pic.twitter.com/MZhZPkTCaB
— Janelle Rettig (@JanelleRettig) October 5, 2014
Winner was Becci Reedus. But the hottest auction item was pair of tickets to next week's Hawkeye game.
Got kids? Dan Daly brought Legos. Which may distract me from speeches #jcdemsbbq pic.twitter.com/dHiIDu0DnP
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
It didn't, which is an indicator of how good the keynoters were because I really love Legos.
People are asking where the beer is. Patrick Hughes was always in charge of that. Wish you were here, Pat. We miss you. #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
A great #jcdemsbbq tradition: Neuzil made pork pic.twitter.com/k3RUom6YqA
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Didn't realize the president was a speaker at the Johnson County Democrats' fall BBQ #onassignment pic.twitter.com/aw2Iu24WWJ
— Nick Fetty (@nick_fetty) October 5, 2014
I actually stuck Cardboard Barack up there at the mic just for fun. Then got seriously thanked later: "so glad we're not distancing ourselves from the President."
Senator Stabenow is here talking w our chair Gerene Denning #jcdemsbbq pic.twitter.com/2BpgIStRMS
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
A tradition at #jcdemsbbq: elected officials and candidates serve pic.twitter.com/4PoofUNBVh
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@MonicaVernon is here at #jcdemsbbq pic.twitter.com/OdHUkxMGhp
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Speeches at #JCDemsbbq starting w @iowademocrats chair @ScottBrennanIDP
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@ScottBrennanIDP: "might be closest election ever in Ia" pic.twitter.com/1O9HXITPOu
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Now speaking at #jcdemsbbq @jonneiderbach
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@daveloebsack "my 5th election but I've only had 3 opponents. No way we're gonna lose this one its 2 important" #jcdemsbbq
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
#JCDemsbq pic.twitter.com/UWDHVRhyvp
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@daveloebsack slated to intro Stabenow #jcdemsbbq
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@daveloebsack "If John Lundell can beat the Koch Brothers in Coralville, we can beat them across IA & America" #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Stabenow on. Speech notes on iPad. Timing perfect as @BruceBraley arrives #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@SenatorSanders arrives as Stebenow speaking #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Serious question: has anyone polled likely voters to see how many know who the Koch Brothers are?
— Dave Price (@idaveprice) October 5, 2014
Stabenow speech focused entirely on the people shes here to help #jcdemsbbq pic.twitter.com/2hnfFUWP7l
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Senator #DebbieStabenow: thank you for sending us @CMCTomHarkin , now the U.S. needs @BruceBraley ! pic.twitter.com/zRnJd4eSp2
— Shawn Harmsen (@ShawnHarmsen1) October 5, 2014
Stabenow: "opposing renewable fuels in IA like opposing auto industry in MI." They must feel OK about Gary Peters if she's here
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@idaveprice BBQ & sauce top quality. Neuzil-made!
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
#jcdemsbbq pic.twitter.com/diI9m1WiDH
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Stabenow: "Workers who get jobs shipped overseas are the ones who'll be squealing" #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
One in a whole sequence of "squealing" references
Stabenow "birth control is not your boss's business" gets standing O at #jcdemsbbq
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@senatorsanders w Gerene Denning #jcdemsbbq pic.twitter.com/PBqP02Ttm0
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Stabenow: "Fate of US Senate depends on IA & MI" #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Stabenow: "I hear great things about your early voting. We don't have early voting in MI" I should show her the Votemobile #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
And later on I made sure to do just that!
Stabenow: "We have enough of a govt that looks like Them and works only for Them" (them being 1%ers) #JCdemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Stabenow fiery enough speaker to have headlined solo... but Sanders likely to overshadow #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
The keynoters meet: Stabenow and Sanders at #jcdemsbbq pic.twitter.com/OzTMJcanWG
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
After a break at #JCDemsBBQ @BruceBraley is on. Scheduled to intro @senatorsanders
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
#iasen RT @ShawnHarmsen1: First issue @BruceBraley speaks about is student college debt. Go Bruce! @iowademocrats pic.twitter.com/X0jo5T1LCr
— Samuel Lau (@SamuelRLau) October 5, 2014
.@BruceBraley "couldn't be bigger differences between me and @joniernst on the issues" #jcdemsbbq pic.twitter.com/hPdTqbkslY
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@desmoinesdem @idaveprice true but event like #JCDemsBBQ is preaching to choir, & Koch Bros = easy applause line
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@BruceBraley "I will work w anyone who has a good idea that'll help Iowa. @joniernst wants to work w Ted Cruz & put impleachment on table"
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Is Fearless Leader & MC Gerene Denning introing pretty much everyone at #jcdemsbbq
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Missed the pic of Gerene. @BruceBraley caught me mid tweet pic.twitter.com/AxzE69vC9e
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
We have 8 of 8 legislators/candidates & 10 of 10 courthouse officials/candidates at #jcdemsbbq
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Roll call: Dvorsky Bolkcom Kinney*, Jacoby Mascher Lensing Stutsman Johnson*, Pulkrabek Weipert Lyness Painter Kriz, Harney Neuzil Sullivan Rettig Carberry*. * are candidates not yet elected. Also mayors Kuhl and Lundell, councilors Throgmorton and Kunkel.
Denning: Dems will work w others who share our common values like independent @SenatorSanders #JCDemsbbq
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
And with that he begins, to "BER-NIE! BER-NIE! BER-NIE!" chants.
Chatter during other speakers. Dead silence as Sanders talks, except for "that's right" shoutouts #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
No question who crowd is here for #jcdemsbbq pic.twitter.com/uVAYWxaBkP
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Sound system not really neccessary for leather lunged @SenSanders #JCdemsbbq
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@SenSanders "our standard of living is collapsing we're on a race to the bottom" #jcdemsbbq pic.twitter.com/FKPXOPd3xU
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
"We need major fed jobs program rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure" #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Virtually every @SenSanders line an applaise line #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
"The time is longoverdue to build those products back in VT & IA & USA" @SenSanders "$7.50 not a minimum wage, a starvation wage" #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@SenSanders drops a "brothers and sisters" into the speech, and it WORKS. #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
May be first since Jesse Jackson to pull that off.
Stabenow was helping folks out. @SenSanders? This is SO much a presidential stump speech... #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
"We have more wealth inequality than any time since 1929, more than any other major country on earth" @SenSanders #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
"This is not the economy we want. This is oligarchy." @SenSanders #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
"The workers understand that the system is rigged." Feels like I'm in a 100 year time warp to Bull Moose Era @SenSanders #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Overturn Citizens United gets another standing O for @SenSanders #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Since 2008, 95% of recovery went to top 1%. That's not democracy, that's oligarchy. - #berniesanders @iowademocrats
— Shawn Harmsen (@ShawnHarmsen1) October 5, 2014
Koch Bros etc are a fringe. Maybe 10%. "We represent the overwhelming majority." @SenSanders #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@SenSanders "not enough to defend social security. We need to raise and expand" #jcdemsbbq pic.twitter.com/mYjaBqyl5Y
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@SenSanders "Rs want to bring us back to 1920s that is why we cannot lose this struggle." What did I say, Bull Moose time warp? #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@SenSanders: I voted for Obamacare but "wrong we are only major nation that does not guarantee health care for all." Standing O. #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Specific mention to single payer gets partial standing O. @SenSanders #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Surprise was that it was only partial.
.@SenSanders betrays Brooklyn roots w "climate change caused by yoo-man activity" #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
"Yooman" gives away Brooklyn like "oot" gives away Canada #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
"They would not let Ike into a GOP meeting today. Too radical." @SenSanders #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
"Iowa played a Yuge role in electing @BarackObama" @SenSanders #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
"Change comes when people struggle. We are losing ground in the economic struggle." @SenSanders #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
"The greed of the billionaire class knows no end. I would think $84 billion would be enough" @SenSanders #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Worst drop in speaker quality ever: @SherrieForIowa following @SenSanders #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Mass exodus as Taha speaks #jcdemsbbq
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Worst drop in speaker quality ever: @SherrieForIowa following @SenSanders #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Our closing act at #JCDemsBBQ is @MonicaVernon
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@MonicaVernon goes for even easier applause line than Koch Brothers: Hawkeyes #jcdemsbbq #seemstowork pic.twitter.com/bicEkcVmyP
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
.@MonicaVernon "are you tired of Terry Branstad?" Gets a call and response thing going #jcdemsbbq
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Most of media, 1/2 of crowd left with @SenSanders. But @MonicaVernon doing well with those of us left at #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
But as Vernon speaks:
IA GOV (NBC/Marist): Terry Branstad (R) 58%, Jack Hatch (D) 36%, Other 1%.
— Politics1.com (@Politics1com) October 5, 2014
.@MonicaVernon "So many Branstad scandals we can't remember them all" see http://t.co/uYx8t1hlee @shavethestache #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Look closely to see beret:
@JohnsonCoDems are tired of Branstad's failed policies & scandals. We're all tired, it's time for a #FreshStart pic.twitter.com/X3CaPVRpCx
— Monica Vernon (@MonicaVernon) October 5, 2014
Biggest failure of #JCDemsBBQ: no bidding war on Deeth beret yet
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
This #JCDemsBBQ will be remembered as the @SenSanders BBQ the way 2003 is remembered as the Ted Kennedy BBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
But greatest #JCDemsBBQ ever remains 2007: @HillaryClinton George McGovern Edwards Richardson Dodd Kucinich
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Also at #JCDemsBBQ 2007 Forrest Whitaker for Obama & multiple Bidens for Joe
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
We deserve a Governor with new ideas who will move our state forward. The person for the job: @Senator_Hatch #iagov #IowasFreshStart
— Monica Vernon (@MonicaVernon) October 5, 2014
.@MonicaVernon "Independent women will help us win this race" #JCDemsBBQ
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
Now the important business: selling off the #JCDemsBBQ leftovers!
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
And the grand finale of #jcdemsbbq: Tom Larkin and Peter Hansen count the proceeds! pic.twitter.com/gg1egmWveo
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
But not everyone was impressed:
#JCDemsBBQ today featured socialist Sen @SenSanders as speaker. @BruceBraley attended. Fairly certain chicken was not on the menu.
— Johnson CO IA GOP (@JohnsonCOIAGOP) October 5, 2014
Winning beret bidder at #jcdemsbbq is Senator Bob Dvorsky pic.twitter.com/SKJE4Wmw6b
— John Deeth (@johndeeth) October 5, 2014
And unlike the Steak Fry I didn't miss anything important:
The bad news? No game today.
The good news? The #Packers already won this week.
Watch: http://t.co/Ymrl2aksVz pic.twitter.com/0Rz5aMneRX
— Green Bay Packers (@packers) October 5, 2014
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