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Meet Midge, the protester in pink (Code Pink Protestor Is A...SHEMALE!!!)
The Hill ^ | March 27, 2007 | Betsy Rothstein

Posted on 03/28/2007 1:51:45 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Getting arrested is becoming blasé for Midgelle Regina Potts.

Born Mitchell Eugene Potts, Midge changed her name last year to reflect her belief that she is a woman.
She has been arrested five times in Washington.

There were the two times protesting in front of the White House, another at the Supreme Court, another at the Senate Gallery and still another at Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) office when she sat reading the names of dead soldiers. She has a date in court on May 15.

“They’re all misdemeanors,” she says, passing the arrests off as just another day in the life of an anti-war protester.

In recent weeks, Potts, a member of the anti-war crusade group Code Pink, has turned herself into a splashy presence on Capitol Hill and a known quantity in most congressional offices. She attends high-profile hearings and sits in prime TV spots right behind key witnesses such as Valerie Plame.

Potts, 38, is still pre-op, but has begun hormonal therapy to become a woman. She hopes someday to have the surgical procedure that will fully make her a woman. For now, she dresses the part and dyes her long hair blond (with pink Manic Panic highlights for Code Pink) and wears a face full of peachy-pink blush, pink lipstick and blue eye shadow. She isn’t as attentive to her nails — they are red and chipped.

As she walks with ease in her white sneakers through the Russell Building to the Hart Building, Potts attracts stares and whiplash glances wherever she goes.

On the day we met last week, she wore blue jeans and layered mismatched pink tops and a clashing rainbow scarf. Perched on her head is a pale-pink pillbox hat (do not think Jackie O). On the hat is a sticker that reads, “Defund the war.”

Potts leads the life of a professional protester. Living on Social Security disability, she protests full-time. She comes to Capitol Hill each morning between 7 and 8 and leaves around 5.

In 2002, before the war in Iraq had begun, she came to Washington and joined a month-long anti-war vigil in front of the White House. In 2006 she ran in the primary against then-House Majority Leader Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and garnered 7 percent of the vote.

During the interview, she spots some women in pink across the way and says urgently, “I have to talk to my friends.” The women, one of whom is wearing a gaudy pink rubber crown, are delighted to see her. The trio discusses who should attend Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) press conference.

Born in Springfield, Mo., Potts was raised primarily in Oak Park, Calif., until she was 14. She attended Kickapoo High School in Springfield — the same school, she brags, as Brad Pitt.

In the early ’90s she was in the Navy and was sent over to the Persian Gulf on a ship. Potts says she was honorably discharged because of physical and emotional problems: “I was kind of lost for a couple of years, you know what I mean?”
In 1996, she says, she attended the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and began going on peace walks.

So what does she want to accomplish right now, right here on Capitol Hill?

“I am here to protest against the war and what I feel is American imperialism,” she says, explaining the bond she feels with the other Code Pink ladies who live together in a three-story house five blocks from Union Station. “It’s really nice because we’re all on the same page.”


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To: PJ-Comix

He/she/it can't hold down a job like everyone else, but he/she/it sure can live a very active life of left-wing freakery. Well someone PLEASE investigate that fraud-ridden racket known as Social Security Disability? (This does NOT apply to those in wheelchairs, mentally challenged etc,. but many of these "disability" claims are ridiculous!)


21 posted on 03/28/2007 2:02:05 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: ArrogantBustard
"...but that hasn't led me to eating huge quantities of estrogen and planning to have my johnson cut off."

Hey, thanks for letting us know you still got your pecker...LOL!

22 posted on 03/28/2007 2:02:11 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: ArrogantBustard

"pay for its dickectomy, too"

Allow me to correct your medical terminology. It's called a chopadickoffamy.

You may thank me later.


23 posted on 03/28/2007 2:03:13 PM PDT by trimom
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To: ArrogantBustard
Potts leads the life of a professional protester. Living on Social Security disability, she protests full-time. She comes to Capitol Hill each morning between 7 and 8 and leaves around 5.

Your post kind of fleshes this quote out. We are very much funding our own destruction.

24 posted on 03/28/2007 2:03:28 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: pnh102
"I quipped how pathetic the movement is if it has to resort to sponsorships."

Perhaps we could start outsourcing our protests to Iran. We live in a world where paying proxies makes us feel better about ourselves without the inconvenience of actually committing ourselves to something. It's all about the off sets...

25 posted on 03/28/2007 2:04:44 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: ElkGroveDan
Sorry, sorry. I'm an old-fashioned gal and find it difficult to refer to anyone in a pillbox hat as "he."

"Well, you must tell me, baby

How your head feels under somethin' like that

Under your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat"

Dylan was brutal.

26 posted on 03/28/2007 2:05:42 PM PDT by 3AngelaD
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To: PJ-Comix
Potts leads the life of a professional protester. Living on Social Security disability, she protests full-time. She comes to Capitol Hill each morning between 7 and 8 and leaves around 5.

Somebody really needs to review that disability case.

27 posted on 03/28/2007 2:06:51 PM PDT by Fierce Allegiance (There are 2 types of Rudy fans - the uninformed or anti-conservative TROLLS who do not belong on FR)
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To: PJ-Comix

Why do people feel compelled to go along with this man's delusions by calling him a "she"? You can't make a man into a women with cosmetic surgery, any more than you can make a horse into a zebra by painting stripes on it.


28 posted on 03/28/2007 2:09:32 PM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: dynachrome

Check out link for Midge potts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge_Potts


29 posted on 03/28/2007 2:09:39 PM PDT by spotbust1 (Procrastinators of the world unite . . . . .tomorrow!!!)
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To: PJ-Comix
She'll never know the joy of growing a new life inside her, then scrambling it's brains and vacuuming it out....
30 posted on 03/28/2007 2:10:05 PM PDT by Uriah_lost ("build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must." -Fred D Thompson)
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To: PJ-Comix

There was a pic of this guy on one of the GOE threads. Almost as ugly as Madea Benjamin or Gael but with a killer 5 o'clock shadow.


31 posted on 03/28/2007 2:10:44 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Uriah_lost

I cant think of a better reason to bring back firing squads.


32 posted on 03/28/2007 2:12:54 PM PDT by JessieHelmsJr
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To: spotbust1

"Check out link"
I am right sorry that I did.


33 posted on 03/28/2007 2:16:07 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: PJ-Comix

"Living on Social Security disability, she protests full-time."

There is a lot of exploitation of SS benefits, by doctors that will deem somebody disabled.

In this case, mentally ill, I suppose.

It is a scam.


34 posted on 03/28/2007 2:19:10 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: dynachrome

I know. I was trying to find the information on Drudge about her, but can't find it.


35 posted on 03/28/2007 2:20:13 PM PDT by spotbust1 (Procrastinators of the world unite . . . . .tomorrow!!!)
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To: dynachrome
Is this "it"?Image and video hosting by TinyPic Or this?Image and video hosting by TinyPic I have so much trouble telling them all apart!!
36 posted on 03/28/2007 2:20:54 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX (Bible Thumper and Proud!))
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To: pillut48

That critter on the left does not look female to me ...


37 posted on 03/28/2007 2:21:59 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: PJ-Comix
It ran in the 2006 Missouri (7th district) Republican primary against Roy Blunt...wtf.

According this,

There she lays out a platform in favor of a debt-free America, energy independence, term limits, a "People’s Veto" and direct democracy.
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Potts served on the USS Yosemite in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Shield after the first Iraq war. She says she favors a strong national defense but wants to end the current Iraq deployment and reinforce U.S. borders against illegal immigration.

wtf x 10. A pro-borders Gulf War I era veteran, transgendered welfare bum who wants "direct democracy" (tyranny of the majority), favors defense spending, and wants Bush impeached? Less a stopped clocked than a random number generator.

38 posted on 03/28/2007 2:23:35 PM PDT by M203M4 ("More guns" is often a very good answer.)
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To: M203M4
wtf x 10. A pro-borders Gulf War I era veteran, transgendered welfare bum who wants "direct democracy" (tyranny of the majority), favors defense spending, and wants Bush impeached?

The face of the modern liberal movement.

39 posted on 03/28/2007 2:26:01 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: pillut48
Here's more-- Image and video hosting by TinyPicImage and video hosting by TinyPicImage and video hosting by TinyPic I had to save these to share them here, I feel so dirty now! [debates taking computer hard drive to car wash to clean it up]
40 posted on 03/28/2007 2:26:56 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX (Bible Thumper and Proud!))
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