GOP mannequins appear in Audubon:
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 along the White Horse Pike.

Word balloons attached to each man make mild political jokes:  Quayle’s – if spelled correctly – would say “I want to be vice president again.”

 McGarrigan’s past display was during the height of the Monica Lewinsky-Bill Clinton scandal.  A Collingswood native, McGarrigan says she has no political leanings – except to poke fun.

I’m sort of like a Jay Leno, I like to get into the funny part of all this “political stuff”, she said.

Her kids, 22 and 18 are “mortified”, McGarrigan said, only half-joking.  And Phil, her husband?

He’s used to me by now”.

The McGarrigan's gave the mannequins a test run at their home in the Pocono’s – even had them floating around in canoes.  They’ll return to the mountains next week for a regatta.

While they’re in Audubon, the mannequins can be seen in the front parking lot at Universal Electronic Supply Co on the White Horse Pike.  The display is parked inside during rainy weather