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.”
Same NUtcase mental page.
Aren't pics required for a thread like this? hehe
The official "job" of protesters in DC. I don't know how they can live in DC on SSI. They must be getting paid to protest.
This worthless piece of $#!+ is sucking off the taxpayers ... I bet it will want us to pay for its dickectomy, too.
This certainly gives one answer to the question of what these freaks do for a living.
Sounds like she's one plastic bag away from being one of those street people that the Capitol Police finally got the authority to exclude after 9/11. The reporter seems to be irony-challenged.
The writer, Betsy Rothstein has a problem with pronouns. If I dressed up as a floor lamp would Betsy refer to me as "it"?
Congressional Page?
Who's paying for it?
They are. A close relative of mine who hates Bush told me how she "sponsored" someone to take a trip to DC to go and protest the war. Of course I quipped how pathetic the movement is if it has to resort to sponsorships. :)
A He/She bum on SSI? Great poster child for Code Pink and ANSWER! Will "it" be hooking up with Cindy Sheehan once "it" has it's "thingie" snipped off?
HE! The pervert is a HE. HE has a Y chromosome and no depraved surgeon can change that.
The clown in the gown.
I think it's time he/she/it got lost again.
I wonder if he/she's on disability because he/she volunteered for the sex change and is now partway through it.
What else is he going to do....I mean, who would hire a person like that?
Probably selling themselves on the street, or some other illegal activity.
Actually, No, I don't know what it means. Some of my youth was 'misspent', and I haven't always known precisely what to do with my life ... but that hasn't led me to eating huge quantities of estrogen and planning to have my johnson cut off.
That's probably not all he/she is sucking off
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