In Lansing, there’s a local personality named Clint Tarver, who’s known as The Hot Dog Man. He’s known for serving up tasty snacks from a vendor cart around the downtown area and he’s a perfect example of the small entrepreneur who built this country.
Clint Tarver happens to be black. He also happens to lean Republican. So when Americans For Prosperity hired Tarver to cater their function outside the Michigan state capitol while the Right To Work bills were being voted on yesterday, it made him a target. Particularly when Tarver attempted to help the AFP volunteers who were trapped when the union goons showed up and cut their tent down. That’s when the goons turned on him…
There is no adequate term for the evil of these people. These are human beings who chose to be subhuman because they lost a vote at the legislature.
The leftists' response would be that the community set up a charity drive to help the business owner. They wouldn't suggest that those who destroyed this man's livelihood be prosecuted.
This is great. It just ticks me off that there weren't any arrests over this. It's one thing to protest and quite another to commit vandalism and assault & battery.
The “hot dog guy” is getting new digs. Clinton Tarver, the owner of Clint’s Hot Dog Cart and Casual Catering, saw his small business thrust into the national spotlight on Tuesday when his supplies were destroyed at a pro-union protest against right-to-work legislation in Lansing, Mich. “Violent” demonstrators tore down a tent where Tarver was serving his dogs, he said, prompting a staff member for a local lawmaker to create an online fundraiser for the 63-year-old downtown fixture. As of Friday, more than $33,000 had been donated.
“I’m overwhelmed,” Tarver said Friday. “The public has shown such love to me. You never know your true friends until you get down and I’ve had people I thought were pretty close to me and they’ve given me one call. You learn from your endeavors.”
Lorilea Zabadal, a staff member for Republican state Rep. Al Pscholka, established the fundraiser after learning of Tarver’s plight. “Everyone who has passed the hot dog cart knows what a kind and caring individual Clint is,” Zabadal wrote. “He never fails to bestow a smile or friendly greeting. In no way [did] he provoke this attack, nor any of the behavior displayed toward him. Regardless of your position on current legislation, rebuilding Clint's Hot Dogs is something we can all support. Please give what you can to get this deserving businessman back out there!”
It just ticks me off that there weren't any arrests over this
My understanding is these big brave union thugs were wearing masks and by the time the police responded they had disappeared into the crowd. Still, there were a ton of cameras of all kinds there so who knows? There may be justice yet.