{"id":231775,"date":"2026-06-30T12:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231775\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:50:09","slug":"thank-democrats-for-maine-losing-an-embarrassing-250th-fair-fight-to-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231775\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank Democrats For Maine Losing An Embarrassing 250th Fair Fight To Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mainers need to rally and overrule the Democrat killjoys who refused to sponsor a booth at the Great American State Fair in Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Otherwise, Pennsylvania may wind up stealing the spotlight with its own \u201cSpirit of 250\u201d exhibit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPennsylvania\u2019s found a way to get Pennsylvania to the State Fair,\u201d says James Fisk, an avid follower of The Maine Wire. \u201cAre there any Mainers who can get Maine there since our state government refused to participate?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fisk raises a great question which was prompted when he read that Pennsylvania\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/woCbiwNWbnxJ0n5U7\" id=\"https:\/\/share.google\/woCbiwNWbnxJ0n5U7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bipartisan<\/a> congressional delegation overruled party pooper Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro and organized a booth at the fair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shapiro and his Maine Democrat counterpart, Gov. Janet Mills aka Debbie Downer \u2013 along with a number of other Democrat states boycotting Trump\u2019s Fair \u2013 are too full of hate for President Trump to lead their states to the expo market America\u2019s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-PA, joined with his GOP colleague, U.S. Sen. David McCormick, to help organize a booth at the fair, which runs through July 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPennsylvania is where America\u2019s story began, and there was no way we were going to let the Commonwealth go unrepresented during our Nation\u2019s 250th birthday celebration,\u201d McCormick said in a press release. \u201cAs the birthplace of American independence, home to the hallowed grounds of Gettysburg, and the engine for the arsenal of democracy, Pennsylvania has a special responsibility to preserve, celebrate, and share that enduring legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The senators\u2019 partner organizations include the PA Chamber, PennAg, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, NFIB, the Pennsylvania Manufacturers\u2019 Association, and the Manufacturer &amp; Business Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCelebrating America\u2019s 250th birthday and Pennsylvania\u2019s special role in our country is important and bipartisan,\u201d said Fetterman. \u201cWe discovered our Commonwealth wasn\u2019t participating in the Great American State Fair on the National Mall and we should be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mainers need to rally and overrule the Democrat killjoys who refused to sponsor a booth at the Great&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-231775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}