As Village Awaits President, New, Old Tributes Surface
COOPERSTOWN
In all the “craziness” of the 2008 election, James Dean, saw opportunity. “Barack Obama was the only sane voice we could find,” he said. “And he’s still the only sane voice.”
Dean, now also a Cooperstown village trustee, printed up a bumper sticker that read “I’m Sticking With the Sane, Intelligent Guy!” and launched them on his website, The Sane Guy, “I said what I thought, and I thought someone else might like them.”
He was right.
He sold hundreds of the $2 stickers through both the 2008 and 2012 elections, often 10-20 at a time. “I sent some to Massachusetts,” he said. “Ellen Weir and Melinda Hardin bought some and were surprised that they came from Cooperstown!”
