Hearne: How Barbara Bollier Put the Screws to Dwight Sutherland

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Now it can be told…

It ain’t easy being a conservative, registered Republican in Johnson County these days – let alone in Mission Hills.

Not when what’s left of those so-called Republicans of yesteryear quietly morphed into Rhinos (Republicans in name only) and now, full blown Dems.

The reason for the above is somewhat obvious to political insiders.

Kansas having long been a Republican stronghold, just about the only way for a politician to get ahead was to play long and join the party. But with things like Democrat Kathleen Sebelius‘ ascendency, little by little the Rhinos have been coming out nof the political closet.

As an old-school conservative Dwight Sutherland is one of only two (that he knows of) Mission Hillbillies to do the unthinkable. As in putting up Donald Trump for president yard signs for all to see.

It’s not like there aren’t plenty of other rich folks nearby who are secretly for Triump, but these days letting on to that fact and that you won’t be voting for Joe Biden is risky business.

Several years ago when I was still wandering the oneline dating realm, I had a pretty nice outing with a young woman from Lawrence. Until the second encounter when the subject of me likely voting for Trump came up and she dumped me on the spot.

End of story, no way would she be caught dead with a so-called deplorable.

Even though I’d voted for Obama twice (which drives the Stomper crazy trying to label me a Republican).

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Something similar happened recently when one of my favorite, longtime BMW customers in Lawrence and I were joking around, texting when somehow the T word entered our fun back-and-forths.

Instantly, the former high school teacher turned lawyer’s texts went from regular sized, perfect English to ALL CAPS with typos and grammatical errors criticizing Trump.

I asked if he’d seen  the video of Biden speaking four years ago and then this past year when out of the blue he shot back:

“RSTHER SCRIPTED THAN THRU A PUTIN PUPPET.”

Followed by:

“NOTHINGCONTROLS DUMPSTER TALK BETTER THAN A PEE TAPE.”

When I kiddingly chided him about his first ever use of all caps, he replied:

“DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE DETAILS JUST PRAY THE DUMPSTERT IS HISTORY.”

You get the picture…

Most people who have a leaning towards “THE DUMPSTER” are either afraid to let that cat out of the bag or just don’t have the time or interest in dealing with the downside.

Ah, but not Dwight!

The Dwightster put out yard signs for Trump, GOP congressional candidate Amanda Adkins and Bollier’s opponent Roger Marshall.

Then two weeks or so back, a funny thing happened.

For five nights in a row, someone began driving onto Sutherland’s yard and mowing down the signs. At first he was able to rebound or replace the wire that held the signs up. Then the signs themselves went missing.

That’s when Dwight contacted a retired FBI investigator he’d been using for legal purposes too install cameras to find out who was behind the political yard farming.

Unfortunately  before that project was completed, on the sixth night, Dwight decided to  hang out and see for himself. Nerd that he is, armed with a tennis racket…just in case!

(to be continued later today after my drive to Tucson)