When President Obama made a campaign stop at the Iowa State Fair Monday, the popular Bud Tent was shut down by the Secret Service.
Owner Mike Cunningham II estimates he lost out on $25,000 in sales while Obama attempted to charm fair-goers with his Man of the Beer-Drinking People act. The Republican business owner told The Des Moines Register, “I was in a position to make a campaign donation against my will.”
Not if Chuck Grassley has anything to say about it. The Iowa senator blasted the president Thursday morning, telling him it’s time to “pay up O.”
That wasn’t the first time Grassley called out the president for damaging the Bud Tent owner’s livelihood. His first tweet was Monday and he’s slammed the president with his trademark shorthand each day since.
Who does PresO think he is. He comes to StateFair the SecretService shut down all small business vendors depriving them of income wo compsat
— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) August 14, 2012
When is Obama going pay vendors at the Iowa state fair for lost income when he shut them down so he could campaign there Mon One lost 25000
— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) August 14, 2012
When is Obama going to pay the vendors he shut down Monday at state fair for lost income. Is his campaigning that important
— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) August 15, 2012
War on Bud Tent owners? Not on Sen. Grassley’s watch.
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