History of Political Dummies™
The idea started back in 1998, right around the time that Al Gore started the Internet! My husband and I transformed our 1970 VW Beetle convertible into a sleigh for an Audubon Town Watch Christmas parade. Since we received so many compliments after the parade, we decided to use it for [...]
A video clip of our Political Dummies during the weather on Channel 16 WNEP in Wilkes Barre - Scranton PA
By BOB FORD, Staff Writer. Published October 6, 2004, Time News, Jim Thorpe, PA
Two political look-alikes sit at Jim Thorpe’s Hazard Square urging people to vote in the November 2 election. The life sized dummies of George W. Bush and John Kerry were brought to Jim Thorpe yesterday afternoon by Betty and Phil McGarrigan in [...]
By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer. Published August 24, 2004, The Capital, Annapolis, Md.
We’ve had a Russian bicyclist (1991), a French jogger (2003), a Brazilian photojournalist in a paddleboat (2004) and even a lawn-mowing teen from Utah (1999).
Then there was the cross-Atlantic jet-skiing Spaniard (2002) and the Texan who rode into town on horseback (2003).
And now [...]
By Jim Walsh, Courier Post 05/10/04
The mainstream media would have you believe Donald Rumsfeld spent Friday before two congressional committees, trying to explain the latest thing to go horribly wrong in Iraq.
But I swear I saw the secretary of defense in an open convertible parked off the White Horse Pike in Audubon. The guy had [...]
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer 11/09/2000
Betty McGarrigan poses in a convertible with a political theme in front of the Universal Electronic Supply Co., the Audubon firm she owns with her husband, Phil. The Hillary Rodham Clinton figure represents the first lady’s victory in the U.S. Senate election in New York. The figure on the left reflects [...]
Courier Post 08/05/2000
Audubon’s own political jokester, Betty McGarrigan, is at it again.
She has dressed four blow-up mannequins in men’s business clothing, adorned them with masks of Bob Dole, Dan Quayle, George W. Bush and his presidential father and arranged them in a 1970 VW Beetle, convertible top down, parked in front of the family business [...]
By Eileen Smith, Courier Post 12/19/1998
AUDUBON - ‘Twas the week before Christmas and President Clinton was facing impeachment at home and Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Or was he?
Motorists on White Horse Pike have spotted the leader of the free world in a white cardboard sleigh trimmed in garland and with Monica [...]
