To the Editor,

On Friday, June 14, the Hancock County Republican Committee held a carefully non-political roadside event, in recognition of Flag Day. No politics, no campaigning, despite the attendance of both State Delegate from Hancock Mark Zatezalo, and WV State Senator Laura Wakim-Chapman and her children, who came up to Weirton from Wheeling.

Just celebrating Flag Day.

We had a decent turnout for a workday, despite some nasty weather initially– which threatened all day, but of course didn’t start until almost exactly 4:00, when the event began–but it passed quickly, cleared up and made for a nice time.

Lots of cheerful honks and waves from the passing traffic. We even had a few passersby stop and join us in our fun, non-political, patriotic event, showing once again that Hancock County, and indeed the Upper Ohio Valley area, is full of patriotic Americans.

Having said that, in the interest of fun, patriotic bipartisanship, our Committee Chair, Dr. Lizabeth Baldt, reached out to the Hancock County Democrats, to invite them to join us in our fun, non-political, patriotic event.

(un)Surprisingly and, well, rather sadly, we never heard back from them. I mean, gee whiz, everybody knows how much the Democrats love America. Right?

Right? I said, right?

Well, I’ll just leave it up to the reader to make of that what they will.

This election year is going fast, so, as the saying goes:

“Remember in November.”

Let me close by saying Happy Independence Day, folks. The Republican Committee will see you in the fun, patriotic parades where, though I hope I’m wrong, you most likely won’t see a Democrat entry.

Rob Denham

Weirton