Crude campaign worker sets bad tone

Last Friday, an unexpectedly beautiful afternoon, I was in the front yard playing with my children. A large SUV pulled up a few houses down the street and three men got out pulling luggage carts piled high with Fred Crespo lawn signs. They had clipboards and seemed intent on "changing the minds" of people who had Ramiro Juarez signs in their yards.

One of the men worked his way to my house, stopped, looked down at me, and then made a strange head gesture toward my Ramiro Juarez sign and then back to me. I told him, "I'm not interested."

His crude reply was unexpected. I heard the four-letter word that came out of his mouth and could hardly believe it, except that the look on my 6- and 8-year-old's faces told me everything I needed to know. He then launched into a diatribe of additional vulgarity.

Frankly, I was horrified that someone would come into a nice neighborhood with the intention of encouraging people to vote for Crespo and treat people so badly. I can only conclude he wasn't interested in encouraging people to vote but rather to intimidate them into not voting, because my area is solidly voting for Ramiro.

Shame on you, Fred Crespo, for deploying your goons in Hanover Park.

Brock Friedman

Hanover Park