Well....yeah!
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The guy was wrong. It was not the time or the place.
Your opinion that the venue was inappropriate for political commentary doesn't negate his right to speak when and where he chooses.
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A high school football game is a place for school colors, silly chants, marching bands, awful concession food, and leaving the world's troubles at the gate.
If that's how you like to pursue your happiness...hooray!
(IMHO, football could disappear from the face of the earth and I wouldn't miss it a bit.)
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sort of like Ford crashing the Corker press conference in TN.
Huge difference. The press conference was held for a specific political party and the football game was a public event.
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There is a time and a place for everything.
True, but it is not within my authority to dictate that time or place to anyone else, just as it is not within anyone else's authority to dictate such things to me.
I'm not saying he couldn't have picked a more appropriate time or place, but I doubt seriously he was forcing the fliers on anyone. It was their choice to take or refuse it.
The point of the law in my humble opinion is so that citizens can have a place to go out in public at this time of year without having to run a gauntlet of creepy politicians getting in your face. Why would they think that anybody wants to put up with them on a Friday night at a high school football game? It's bad enough that they feel compelled to exercise their right to litter the landscape with "free speech" campaign signage, for some reason we still put up with that but God forbid you put a yard sale sign out at the end of the street...
Richardson was not arrested for expressing his views or soliciting votes verbally, but for distributing literature.