Float inappropriate for Whiskey Flat Parade

“Be pleasant,” that’s one of the guidelines that the Kernville Chamber of Commerce requires of Whiskey Flat Days parade entries. Well, it seems that the Chamber must have been snow-blind this year as very a negative and unpleasant float managed to slip into the Whiskey Flat Days parade. It seems that some local Republicans, suffering from sore-loser syndrome, decided to get nasty with a banner that read “Republicans Free Slaves - Democrats Free Terrorits.” It’s too bad that this handful of Republicans decided to launch unpleasant attacks instead of standing on the merits of their own position.

The Chamber should enforce their own guidelines for parade entries. This entry was not “pleasant.” It was in bad taste and completely inappropriate for the Whiskey Flat Days parade.

Erin Havrilesky

Kernville