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<\/p>\nPORT CLINTON \u2013 Despite low temperatures and strong winds off Lake Erie, several hundred protesters showed up to make their voices heard in the third No Kings rally.<\/p>\n
More than 300 protesters lined West Ohio 163 along the Erie Dearie section of Waterworks Park in downtown Port Clinton March 28. Temperatures were down in the 30s despite the sunny day.<\/p>\n
A Minnesota flag and impromptu memorials to Alex Pretti and Renee Good were part of the No Kings protest.<\/p>\n
The Port Clinton event was organized by We The People, Ottawa County, which involved demonstrators from Marblehead to Elmore. They are a standalone group not part of the Democratic Party, Indivisible or 50501. The two women doing the organizing are Susan Mulligan and Sher Bowersox.<\/p>\n
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Several hundred No Kings protesters lined the streets of Port Clinton, Ohio, on March 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople get really emotional, and they cry sometimes, and I feel like I\u2019m going to cry sometimes. It\u2019s because we feel helpless. It\u2019s like we don\u2019t have another way to go,” Mulligan said. “By allowing them to express themselves and find like-minded people, they are emotional, so emotional. So, by the end of the day, so am I.”<\/p>\n
Mulligan frequently turned off the protest music, some old and some new, to lead chants with her megaphone.<\/p>\n
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A Minnesota flag and impromptu memorials to Alex Pretti and Renee Good were part of the No Kings protest in Port Clinton, Ohio, on March 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s such a good feeling to join other people in protest right here in Port Clinton. We have good people,\u201d Bowersox said.<\/p>\n
The messages were many, from a Vietnam veteran to people angered by the deaths in Minnesota of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, to the No Kings message.<\/p>\n
Richard Nolte sat, displaying a flag that read \u201cVeterans against Trump.”<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m here because I served in Vietnam for my country and I\u2019m very discouraged by the way this administration is treating veterans,\u201d Nolte said. \u201cIt started off with Trump calling veterans \u2018suckers\u2019 and \u2018losers,\u2019 and it\u2019s just gone downhill since then.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Richard Nolte, a Vietnam War veteran, braved the cold Lake Erie winds to demonstrate in the No Kings protest in Port Clinton, Ohio, on March 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
Nolte served from 1968 through 1971. He was in the Army with the 101st Airborne as an infantry platoon leader in Vietnam.<\/p>\n
Port Clinton native Jeff Cutcher is a retired union boilermaker, whose wife is Canadian. They are frequently visiting family in Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh boy, they have a different personality. They do speak out, but they are not blaming the citizens. They just blame [our] government,” Cutcher said. “They don\u2019t like the bullying. I don\u2019t blame them. Yeah, they are upset. Basically, it\u2019s global. I think we see that, because he\u2019s asking our allies to help us, and when you threaten somebody, they are not going to turn around and help you out.”<\/p>\n