Posted on 10/19/2004 9:23:41 AM PDT by tame
Yesterday, I drove by the welfare department in Bakersfield, California to see if anyone was registering voters there (as sometimes is the case). Sure enough, there was a democrat voter registration table.
Now, hold your fire on the location. In all fairness, we Republicans have sometimes registered voters at the welfare office, though with probably far less of a natural constituency.
Anyways, I parked, walked up, and listened to a woman I will refer to as "Rat-lady" as she attempted to register voters. A woman I will refer to as Maisha came over to the table to register to vote. (Maisha may have been an employee of the Dept.)
Maisha indicated that she wanted to register as an independent, but Rat-lady told Maisha that she had to register as a Democrat since Rat-lady was working for the Democrat party.
I spoke up and told Rat-lady that she was wrong. I said that I am a Republican who registers voters for the GOP, and that Maisha can register any way she wants to.
I told both of them that it's not legal for Rat-lady to tell anyone that they "have to" register as a Democrat.
Rat-lady told me to "quit telling me how to do my job".
I said, "But what you're doing is illegal and I can report you to the elections office." [Secretary of State, etc.]
Rat-lady told me to "have at it" (which I later did by leaving a message re the incident on the voice mail of an elections official in Bakersfield).
Sometime during our exchange, and only after I said Rat-lady was doing something illegal, Rat-lady indicated that Maisha can take the registration form with her and mail it herself. I think Maisha did this, but I'm not sure.
Keep in mind this was the last day to register in California in order to be able to vote in the upcoming election.
Maisha seemed very concerned that if she did not register as a democrat, then Rat-lady would not turn in the voter registration card on time (I mentioned that was a real possibility).
Maisha also indicated she might register as a Democrat for now (if she gave the card back to Rat-lady to turn in) so she would not miss the deadline, and be able to vote in the upcoming election.
Bottom line: Maisha seemed intimidated by a very coercive Democrat.
But that's not all. Consider this irony: During the course of our exchange, Rat-lady took a stab at Republicans (since I mentioned I did voter Registration for them) by mentioning the alleged Democat voter registrations that were trashed in Las Vegas.
I then mentioned the story I read about [someone with ties to the NAACP] the rats' allegedly paying for voter registration cards with crack cocaine.
Meanwhile, Maisha was starting to laugh at the whole exchange.
Now, folks, Maisha was a black lady. And the Rat-lady seemed to want to disenfranchise Maisha's right to register with the party of her choice, or to register as an independent if she so chooses.
Do you think Jesse Jackson will be coming to fight alongside me against the 'rats in Bakersfield?
They are? ;o)
you've got mail.
JJ is too busy in Jacksonville Fl right now making sure that everyone knows no matter how much is done to improve voting methods etc, it will not make him happy!
"Jackson and Brown said the new sites and new elections office leadership won't make elections better, blistering the city's leadership in criticism painted with the memory of 27,000 invalidated votes in the 2000 election. Jackson compared the city's situation to his civil rights fights of the 1960s."
(Excerpt) Read more at jacksonville.com ..
You said it!!!!
The one i know are :o)
DemocRATs are barely viable people let alone honorable Americans...
Wow! I am shocked - - - shocked I tell you - - -!
I did something similar a couple of weeks ago. I work in Washington, DC, and live in Arlington, VA. I take Metro to and from work.
A couple of weeks ago, after I got off the subway train at the Pentagon City Metro Station, I noticed that there were several people, all wearing "Kerry/Edwards" t-shirts, holding clipboards, and shouting out to people, "Register Here to Vote!"
The thing was -- they were doing this on Metro's property. (The day I saw this it was raining very heavily, and the people who were wearing the Kerry t-shirts were standing outside the faregates of the station, but were still insdie the station.)
I went first to the Station Manager and asked if Metro allowed such activity on its property. He referred me to a rather muscular Metro Policeman nearby. I asked him if Metro allowed such activity on its property, and he said that Metro only allowed such activity near -- but not on -- its property. I then asked him to ask the people with the Kerry t-shirts to leave the station.
He did so, and as he did, I stood by to watch and see what would happen. They told him that they were within their rights -- one of the t-shirts even told him that she was an attorney, and knew what the law said, and that he had better back off.
The policeman remained polite, and pulled out a copy of what I assumed was Metro's policies on the matter. When he told them that they would need to go outside the station, I heard one of the t-shirts say, "But, it's raining!"
As I was standing observing this, one of the t-shirts came up to me and asked if she could help me. I told her that I was the person who had asked the policeman to enforce Metro's rules.
She told me that there were doing nothing wrong. I asked her how she might feel if she were to see a group of people wearing Bush-Cheney t-shirts attempting to register voters on Metro property. SHe told me that they would be in the wrong area of Virginia to do that.
Anyway, I finally left after I saw the band of t-shirts picking up their materials and leaving the station.
Righteous='in right standing with OUR LORD.'
The one i know are :o)
Thank you. ;o)
I'm glad you posted the rat-lady's actions. I'm also glad you're an active Republican lookin' out for the less than fortunate folks who are being scared by THE RAT PARTY. How despicable!!!
Now there's a Country n Western song title.
Excellent! Job well done, fellow soldier :o)
I should have taken a video camera around and taped the illegal voter registration acts [kicking myself]
hey, i might just follow up on that idea :o)
About the Metro station. I wonder why the officer didn't do it on his own -- since he knew the rule. BUT -- your action just shows that involvement is needed. So glad you did!!
Be sure and make it funny and upbeat, there's nothing that irks RATS more than joyful laughter.
This episode convinced me that it really is up to all of us to ask first, be polite, and stick around to see what happens.
I also happen to think that I might have been the only person who was not in a hurry to get home, and who chose to spend my time dealing with something I didn't think was quite right.
Good for you!! Doesn't surprise me in the least.
the officer was probably content to "let it slide" until he was approached by chs68, but then he didn't want a complaint letter sent to his superiors in case he didn't act.
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