[taxesareforever]

Richardson has vowed to return this coming Friday night and continue handing out campaign literature.

Good for him. The indoctrination centers don't want anyone influencing their indoctrinees.

[dayglored]

>> Richardson has vowed to return this coming Friday night and continue handing out campaign literature.

> Good for him. The indoctrination centers don't want anyone influencing their indoctrinees.

Yeah, but isn't getting arrested at this point sort of counter productive? If he disagreed with the school-board policy and the state statue, he should have started on that tack weeks or months ago, not a week before the election. Now he only looks foolish, spending time dealing with an arrest.

[TWfromTEXAS]

Rats ass. If you allow campaigning in schools, and Texas doesn't, the liberal teachers will have a field day. Here if you're running, or work there, there is no campaigning on school property. A voter however can push the limits by wearing campaign buttons which I did my SR year.

Odd how some will support a law breaker as long as he's a "R".

[Jomini]

Richardson's campaign has been in touch with the US Justice Department today and will seek a temporary restraining order against the School Board from having him arrested again at this Friday's Northside -- Southside rivalry game.  The School Board has back pedaled today and now states that no General Statute / law was violated but instead his actions were an "infraction" of School Board policies. 

(Richardson is emulating the successful tactic of Senator Richard Burr in handing out campaign literature at high school football games with his platform on one side and referee signals on the other.)

Richardson is a member of the County Commission that was sued by the School Board a few months ago for budgeting "only" a 7 per cent increase in funding instead of the 15 percent the School Board requested.  The subsequent County Commission appeal of the Superior Court verdict against them has frozen funding at the previous year's level until the appeal is heard.

The three School Board members up for reelection are facing strong challenges and are expected to be defeated next week.  In addition the School Board violates its own policy by distributing campaign literature to teacher's mailboxes for candidates that have been endorsed by the teacher's union.

Subpoenas will be issued later in the week and those involved compelled to testify under oath.  In addition Richardson is mulling the possibility of requesting the protection of the Federal Marshal at Friday night's game.  He contends that political speech is the most protected form of free speech and is unlikely to back down.

J