Trump sign controversy won't go away

Last week someone defaced a "Trump for President" sign in Decorah (http://www.decorahnews.com/news-stories/2016/09/14660.html.  Local Republicans responded by adding a sign to the top of the defaced "Trump for President" sign that accused local Democrats of committing the vandalism.  (http://www.decorahnews.com/news-stories/2016/10/14683.html)

That has sparked several Letters to the Editor of decorahnews.com:

(Kari Hanson e-mails): "I find Mr. Hansen's reaction to the candidate sign defacement overblown. This looks more like a juvenile attempt at humor than a serious political statement. Oh, by the way, would the person(s) who stole my "Obama 2012" sign from my front yard please return it?"

(Jonathon Struve e-mailed): "As a registered Democrat in Winneshiek County, I found the vandalism to the Trump Pence sign located on the corner of College Drive and Locust Road to be disturbing.  Vandalism is vandalism, and not in the spirit of free speech or expression.  However, much to my dismay when I walked by the sign on Saturday, I saw a new message that I find equally disturbing, and just as troubling.  Now, I find myself confronted with a slanderous message that implies that somehow I and all my fellow Democrats are responsible for this criminal act.  I'm sorry to my Republican friend and neighbors, but that is a message that I also cannot tolerate.  I do NOT agree with vandalism of political signs, and I suppose you're right, I will NOT tolerate being slandered by this sign.  I think it's time for everyone to grow up.  Neither the vandalism nor the "response" reflect well on this community.

(Randy Haugen e-mailed): "Winneshiek County Republican Party Chair Thomas Hansen seems to think from his Facebook page that it was a/the Democrats who are the ones who painted the "T" out of Trump on that big sign on College Drive.  My question is that is not Mr. Hansen guilty of insulting a whole political party with no evidence at all, going on a wild assumption?  After all we know the whole Bush family has come out against Trump.  Perhaps G.W. Bush, the well known painter, did it??  Such silliness by Thomas Hansen should not slip by us.