On America's Birthday, Democrats inject Politics into the celebration

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How Susan B. Anthony crashed the Great American Raft Race in Lake Worth Beach

HOURS BEFORE FIREWORKS lit up the sky, two Lake Worth Beach activists sparked a Fourth of July kerfuffle on water.

With thousands watching the start of the annual Great American Raft Race, a banner unfurled from the end of a Bryant Park pier above the Lake Worth Lagoon: “NO SELF RESPECTING WOMAN SHOULD WISH OR WORK FOR THE SUCCESS OF A PARTY THAT IGNORS HER SUCCESS – Susan B. Anthony 1872 and 1894.”

It was a sign of the times, past and present, a message especially worth sharing on Independence Day, said the bed-sheet banner’s creators, activist Carole Fields and artist AnnaMarie Windisch-Hunt, a Democrat.

“We had our backs to the people, cheering the races on. We weren't yelling things out. We just had the banner dropped,’’ Fields said. She refused to remove the banner when the police arrived and asked her to take it down.

Some people were not amused.

Jeff Clemens even piped in about First Amendment Rights after Craig Frost, head of the Association Presidents Council said it was very sad that they were there to make a political statement as it was not the time nor the place.

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In actuality, the Republican Party is the only party advocating for women's rights...as an example, banning men participating in women's sports. I am only guessing that the banner creators were talking about the right of abortion or killing babies in the womb.

And the irony of all of this is that Susan B. Anthony was a Republican and came to prominence for women's suffrage--their right to vote. The Republican Party pioneered the right of women to vote and was consistent in its support throughout the long campaign for acceptance. "It was the first major party to advocate equal rights for women and the principle of equal pay for equal work."

Set me straight, Annamaria!