Meet The Parlocks!

Yep, you counted correctly!
10 kids!
I guess Elizabeth (Mom) is taking the picture.
She must be a real trooper!
What a happy family.

Phil sells real estate...

Phil Parlock Phone: (304) 634-3931
email: phil@callmcguire.com

Phil specializes in the sale (and lease) of Commercial, Industrial, and Farm properties in the Huntington West Virginia area. He also sells residential homes, houses, residential lots, and rural acreage. He has nearly 20 years of widely varied experience in real estate including Sales, Negotiations, Commercial/Industrial Appraisal, Residential Appraisal, Eminent Domain, and Real Estate Assessment.

Phone Phil for any of your retail, office, commercial, industrial, agricultural, farm, acreage, or residential needs in the greater Huntington West Virginia area. If you are selling your house, home, or commercial property, or if you are looking for a buyer's agent, contact him at any time on his cell phone or at his e-mail address.

Phil enjoys spending time with his large family, gardening, hunting, fishing, and tinkering with cars. He is active in his church, with the Boy Scouts, and is on the Executive Committee of the local branch of the NAACP. LINK

But bad things happen to good people Phil and his children...

Poor Phil! Poor Phil's Little Daughter!
What a terrible thing to do to an innocent family!
And shame on the Herald-Dispatch photographer for not capturing the actual grabbing of the little Parlock girl's sign!

Here's another picture:

Poor Phil! Look at his face! He's so sad!

In fact, he's so sad that it doesn't occur to him to protect his daughter against an attacker!

And he's so sad that it never occurs to him to comfort his daughter!

And he's so sad that it never occurs to him to get his daughter as far away from her attacker as possible!

Now that's some real sadness there, Phil!

I sure hope that attacker can be identified!

Hm.

He looks familiar...



I wonder why Phil just stood there while the photographer captured the sad look on his face.

Here's the Herald-Dispatch's account:

Edwards greets supporters at airport
By JIM ROSS - The Herald-Dispatch

John Edwards finished his two-day tour of West Virginia and Ohio by waving to about 200 supporters before boarding an airplane at Tri-State Airport. --snip--

A Republican family attended the rally to show support for the Bush-Cheney ticket. Phil Parlock, a Barboursville resident and strong Republican, said his family was accosted by some Kerry supporters.

"We do it peacefully and quietly to show respect. And, we don’t want to get kicked out of anything," Parlock said.

After standing on the tarmac with the Kerry supporters, Parklock and three of his children moved down to the airport road near a parking lot exit.

With Parlock were sons Phil II, 21, and Alex, 11, and daughter Sophia, 3.

Parlock said a Kerry supporter yanked a Bush-Cheney sign out of Sophia’s hands, making her cry. As they stood along the road later, someone threw the ripped-up remains of the sign at them as they passed.

Poor Phil! I'll bet his face looked really sad!

Hm.

This makes West Virginia Democratic-Party-Union-Workers look really mean, doesn't it?

Color me skeptical...

Ahem.

Charleston Daily Mail (West Virginia)
October 28, 2000, Saturday
SECTION: News; Pg. P1A
LENGTH: 861 words
HEADLINE: Signs for Bush taken at rally, father, son say
BYLINE: SAM TRANUM

Phil Parlock didn't expect to need all 12 of the Bush-Cheney signs he and his son Louis smuggled in their socks and pockets into the rally for Vice President Al Gore.

But each time they raised a sign, someone would grab it out of their hands, the two Huntington residents said. And sometimes it got physical.

"I expected some people to take our signs," said Louis, 12. "But I did not expect people to practically attack us."

The two said they didn't go to the Friday morning rally to start trouble.

"I came to support Bush and try to change some people's minds," Louis said.

Gore's West Virginia campaign said Bush-Cheney signs were not welcome, but physical confrontations to eliminate them would not have been condoned.

Parlock, a real estate agent, thought it would be at least as educational for his son to spend the morning at the Gore rally as it would have been to spend the day at school. So the two got in the car and drove from Huntington, arriving in Charleston about 9 a.m.

Parlock said he was a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign. He is listed on the West Virginia Bush-Cheney Web site as the Cabell County contact for the campaign.
But he said he came as a supporter, not a campaign worker. His visit to Charleston was "unencouraged and unsanctioned," he said. The idea was to show that there was another option besides Gore.

"My opinion of the press is it always shows the liberal viewpoint," he said. "And we have to struggle to show the other side exists."

He and Louis brought a supply of Bush-Cheney signs and smuggled them into the rally. They stuffed plastic ones in their socks and pockets and folded paper ones inside Gore-Lieberman signs. --snip--

Parlock and his son, clad in white button-down shirts and ties, took their place in front of the Capitol steps and waited. As the rally got going, they started raising their signs and people immediately began stealing them, Parlock said. --snip--

Parlock said a group of people wearing T-shirts and jackets with the United Mine Workers of America logo took away many of their signs.

"I didn't see anything like that," said Ted Hapney, an international representative for the United Mine Workers. "I wouldn't do that. We don't condone any type of violence."

Another incident involved Louis and a teenage girl he and Parlock said they met at the rally. They said they didn't know who she was.

"She walked up and said 'I'll get on your shoulders and hold a sign,' " Louis said.

While she was sitting on Louis' shoulders waving a Bush-Cheney sign, a man who identified himself as a volunteer for the Gore campaign tried to pull the sign out of the girl's hands, Parlock said. He pulled so hard that Louis and the girl fell over. --snip--

As workers cleaned up the debris from the rally in front of the Capitol after the rally, Parlock sat next to a pile of ripped up Bush-Cheney signs he had collected. He said he thought the people who took his signs went too far.

Still, he said he'd do it again.

And he thinks it was a good educational experience for Louis, too.

"You can't get this kind of a lesson in school," he said.

Writer Sam Tranum can be reached at 348-4872 or by e-mail at samt@dailymail.com .

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LOAD-DATE: October 30, 2000

Wow! Poor Phil! And Poor Phil's Son!

Imagine the odds of Evil Union Workers grabbing Bush/Cheney signs from you and your your child more than once!

But Wait! There's More!

Copyright 1996 Charleston Newspapers
Charleston Daily Mail (West Virginia)
August 27, 1996, Tuesday
SECTION: News; Pg. P3C
LENGTH: 342 words
HEADLINE: DOLE SUPPORTERS FIND IT ROUGH AT CLINTON RALLY
BYLINE: The Associated Press

HUNTINGTON - Some Clinton protestors say the president's supporters shouted them down and kept their signs from being seen as the president kicked off his re-election campaign.
Others said they had no problem getting through the gates with signs promoting Bob Dole's Republican candidacy.
Phil Parlock's experience was less calm. The Huntington man said he was knocked to the ground by a Clinton supporter when he tried to display a sign that read "Remember Vince
Foster," the deputy White House counsel who committed suicide in a Washington, D.C., park. His death has become the subject of much debate among Clinton opponents.
"It must have been a strict Democrat who did this," Parlock said, feeling the red abrasions on his face. "Everyone with the exception of him was real peaceful about our protest."
Parlock said some of the crowd tried to make other anti-Clinton
demonstrators feel unwelcome. He estimated that about 150 Dole supporters attended the rally, but their signs couldn't be seen for most of the rally.
"I came to show that not everyone from Huntington is going to vote for Clinton," Parlock said.
LOAD-DATE: August 28, 1996

Don't worry, Poor Sad Phil!

Now you'll have a few days of media celebrity and a ton of stuffed toy elephant crap from you fan club at freerepublic.com!

My question: Why hasn't Phil been investigated for child endangerment?

As for the newspaper editors, friendly photographers, and freepers who keep feeding Phil's need for media attention, Barnum had a name for you.

Suckers.

Thanks to my friends (rezmutt, jchild, et al) ! You guys rock!