Posted on 11/08/2011 9:49:20 PM PST by quantim
CLEVELAND (AP) -- An Election Day poll worker tried to bite off a voter's nose during an argument Tuesday over a campaign sign, police and election officials said.
"This is absolutely unacceptable behavior that we do not tolerate," Cuyahoga County elections director Jane Platten said. The elections board identified the worker for Cleveland police, who are seeking to arrest him, she said.
Greg Flanagan, 49, who had just voted, said he was bitten when he went to the aid of a campaign worker who was in an argument with an election employee over a sign posted near the polls.
Flanagan, left with a slash down one side of his nose and dizziness from a head butt, said the incident shocked him.
"What was going through my mind was I couldn't believe it was happening and I knew what I did was right and I shouldn't have been treated that way by another human being," he told The Associated Press.
He was treated at a hospital.
The elections board said the employee, who was assigned to make checks at various polling places, had a clean record working eight elections since 2006, but he wouldn't be rehired.
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Gives a whole new meaning to “Bite me”.
was his name Moose?
:P
Notice ap wouldn’t tell us what the sign said. In that case I’ll go on a limb and guess that the sign was IN SUPPORT of the new Union-cap law in Ohio!
One of Eric Holder’s people?
Sounds like this guy and Mike Tyson would probably get along pretty well... Seriously, who bites someone? It’s not like this guy was in fear for his life - it’s one thing to resort to biting if you’re in the middle of a knock-down drag-out fight and you’re doing everything you can to stop the other person. To be not physically threatened, and then resort to this level of violence definitely indicates someone with some pretty serious anger/violence behavioral issues.
I’m not going to assume anything in regards to which campaign, or which party the worker is affiliated with.
I DO remember that there was a liberal a few years back during the healthcare debates that bit someone though. I would say that it’s just further proof of the child-like mentality of some political activists who really DO need to “grow up”.
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