Dems hand out 'Is he dead yet?' bracelet to child at Wisconsin farmers' market
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Wisconsin mother has been left outraged after she said a Democratic group handed her eight-year-old child an 'Is he dead yet?' bracelet at a local farmers market.
Katy Neubauer was enjoying a fun day with her sister-in-law and kids on Saturday at the Oshkosh Farmers Market when things took a bizarre turn.
While at the market, Neubauer said her children were playing with bubbles being given out by the Winnebago County Democratic Party's booth when all of sudden her child handed her a bracelet that seemingly referred to the death of President
Donald Trump.
She soon found out that the man, one of three booth workers, told her child: 'Hey give this to your mom, she's going to like it,' Neubauer told the Daily Mail.
Her sister-in-law grabbed the bracelet, but couldn't quite read what it said, but when Neubauer saw it, she immediately rushed back to the tent and got rid of the 'hate speech.'
The mother dropped it back in a pile of bracelets, which she said had more 'Anti-Trump' and 'not child appropriate' rhetoric on them.
She recalled one saying '8647' - a numerical term that is said to stand
for getting rid of, or '86-ing' Trump, the 47th president of the United States.
As she did so, she told the people at the table: 'We don't wear hate speech.' The mother did not get pictures of the bracelet because she felt like it was a 'hot potato' she just had to get rid of.
In the heat of the moment, Neubauer decided to walk away and carry on with her day, but she went back to the table later on to confront the man who handed the bracelet to her child.
After telling him what he did was 'really inappropriate,' especially because 'you don't know my political affiliation,' the unnamed man apologized, she alleged.
Market Manager Michelle Schmid-Schultz confirmed the bracelets were distributed by the Winnebago County
Democratic Party’s booth. They also received 10 complaints about the bracelets,
Fox 11 reported.
In a Facebook post shortly after the bizarre moment, Neubauer said she 'promptly' handed the bracelet back 'and told them we don't wear hate speech.' She added: 'What is wrong with these people!?'
She said the message on the bracelet was 'tone deaf,' especially following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk who was assassinated on September 10.
Kirk was fatally shot in the neck in a targeted attack at Utah Valley University.
Schmid-Schultz said that although the booth 'did break market rules' the organization will be allowed back to set up at future events.
'We do have a vendor code of conduct and rules and regulations on how items are to be handed out at the farmers market, and they did break market rules,' she said.
When contacted by the Daily Mail, Michael Cooney, the board chair of the Oshkosh Saturday Farmers Market, said the bracelet 'did not align with current market policies.'
'Since that time, the market has received multiple complaints about items being displayed and distributed, as such by mutual agreement, the Winnebago County Democratic Party will not have a booth at the remaining Oshkosh Saturday Farmers Markets this season,' Cooney added.
