Republicans rally by boat in Foster City Lagoon as Harris accepts Democratic nomination

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News August 26, 2024August 26, 2024

About a dozen onlookers cheered a Republican flotilla event in Leo J. Ryan Park in San Mateo County. Aug. 22, 2024 (Ruth Dusseault / Bay City News)

Eight deck boats and a crowd of about 50 Republicans rallied in San Mateo County at the same hour Kamala Harris accepted the presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week.

The Republican Party chapter organized a flotilla event and picnic in the Foster City Lagoon. Tickets were $125.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.

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