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FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS VOTE REPUBLICAN The Origin of FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS VOTE REPUBLICAN, FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS VOTE DEMOCRAT, PRESIDENT QUAYLE first started way back in 1991 and has been copied extensively by many others. Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican <a class="user" href="http://www.cafepress.com/designermite/1012916&quot;&gt;http://www.cafepress.com/designermite/1012916&lt;/a&gt; Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Democrat <a class="user" href="http://www.cafepress.com/designermite/1012942&quot;&gt;http://www.cafepress.com/designermite/1012942&lt;/a&gt; The preceding links show the current official location of the copy written designs. The original prototypes were also extensively copied and bootlegged and sold on many street corner in Washington, DC, New York City and in a few stores that originally bought form the originator without permission. The prototype Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican can be seen here: <a class="user" href="http://www.cafepress.com/designermite/347974&quot;&gt;http://www.cafepress.com/designermite/347974&lt;/a&gt; The prototype for Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Democrat can be seen here: <a class="user" href="http://www.cafepress.com/designermite/347924&quot;&gt;http://www.cafepress.com/designermite/347924&lt;/a&gt; The following copy was also added to a personal webpage: Here they are The Original, Legendary PRESIDENT QUAYLE, FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS VOTE REPUBLICAN and FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS VOTE DEMOCRAT...the political statements seen on shirts, decals and buttons... that were seen worn by more people in the streets of Washington, DC....New York...the ones that started it all...the ones that was most copied by others... FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS VOTE DEMOCRAT released by PDQ Productions (copyright 1991 - Walt Sullivan) as a follow up to FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS VOTE REPUBLICAN also released by PDQ Productions (copyright 1991 - Walt Sullivan) Walt Sullivan has always been bold and unique in his designs. In 1988 he produced PRESIDENT QUAYLE, the take off of Edvard Munch's woodcut " The Scream " and inserted PRESIDENT QUAYLE (your worst nightmare). This was the start of PDQ Productions which then stood for President Dan Quayle Productions. Walt Sullivan's shirt designs have been written about and featured in Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, Washington Post, Washington Times,Washington City Paper Regardies, Harpers, The Nation, Phil Donahue Show, and many others too numerous to mention here. Walt Sullivan later released the now infamous FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS VOTE REPUBLICAN and FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS VOTE DEMOCRAT (copyright 1991) The original personal webpage can be seen here: <a class="user" href="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/waltsullivan/Friends%20don&quot;&gt;http://mywebpages.comcast.net/waltsullivan/Friends%20don&lt;/a&gt;&#039;t%20let%20friends.html The personal webpage validates the original Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican date as it shows the highest ranking in Yahoo's search as the first one listed. There also follows many other references to the Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican that can be seen in other sites. Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican was admittedly a viewed as a form of negative political campaigning, its real intention was to get people up off of their apathetic bottoms and vote. Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican got people annoyed enough to get active in their own local and national politics. It was interesting and amusing in 1991 to see just how many Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican shirts were being worn on the streets and how many Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican bumper stickers were gracing the rear bumpers of cars in traffic. It is still interesting to see that Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican is still alive and well and selling on <a class="user" href="http://www.cafepress.com/designermite/1012916&quot;&gt;http://www.cafepress.com/designermite/1012916&lt;/a&gt; in the form of shirts, stickers, dog shirts, greeting cards, posters, calenders, postage pals, track suits, tiles, coasters, messenger bags, BBQ aprons, pillows, clocks, mugs, and stein. Then it only made sense to have the equal opportunity for Republicans with the version of Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Democrat. The most important thing to remember concerning the intention of Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican and Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Democrat is to get out and vote.

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