Pathetic

by: huntsu

Wed Jun 18, 2008 at 04:39:22 PM EDT

Buying that much crap just to promote yourselves is pretty bad, but this rationale for why they need the mood pencils (they change color with the heat of the skin) and beach balls for the annual 4H Fair.

"The county government tent is extremely well attended by the visitors, and the visitors are 20,000 plus each of the three days," Palmer said about the 4-H Fair. "They check out the various services that the county offers and typically they pick up, for lack of a better word, 'tchotchke' items."

"It's the one of the few opportunities that the county government has an opportunity to get out there and educate its customers about what services it offers," said Somerset County Counsel Thomas Miller.

One of the few opportunities?  Pencils that change color when heated and beach balls are what the Somerset County Republican Party consider public education of the role of county government in their "customers'" lives.

Pathetic.