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CHICAGOLAND: FIRST LADY CAMPAIGNED INSIDE POLLING PLACE? (Drudge Report)
Drudge Report ^ | 10/13/2010 | Matt Drudge

Posted on 10/14/2010 2:01:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Edited on 10/14/2010 3:03:12 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

FIRST LADY CAMPAIGNED INSIDE POLLING PLACE
Thu Oct 14 2010 16:19:25 ET

First lady Michelle Obama appears to have violated
Illinois law -- when she engaged in political discussion at a polling place!

The drama began after Mrs. Obama stopped off at the
Martin Luther King Center on the south side of Chicago to cast an early vote.
After finishing at the machine, Obama went back to the desk and handed in her voting key.

She let voters including electrician Dennis Campbell, 56, take some photos.

"She was telling me how important it was to vote to keep her husband's agenda going," Campbell said.

According to the pool reporter at the scene, the conversation took place IN the voting center not far from the booths.

Illinois state law -- Sec. 17-29 (a) -- states: "No judge of election, pollwatcher, or other person shall, at any primary or election, do any electioneering or soliciting of votes or engage in any political discussion within any polling place, within 100 feet of any polling place."

A top Ilinois State Board of Elections official tells the DRUDGE REPORT how Mrs. Obama may have simply been ignorant of the law and thus violated it unintentionally.
"You kind of have to drop the standard for the first lady, right?" the official explained late Thursday. "I mean, she's prety well liked and probably doesn't know what she's doing."

WHITE HOUSE DEFENDS ELECTIONEERING
When questioned about the brazen nature of Mrs. Obama's campaigning, press secretary Robert Gibbs defended the action.

"I don't think it would be much to imagine, the First Lady might support her husband's agenda," Gibbs smiled.

Developing...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
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To: maggief

Good grief! What is it with Meeshell and the belts?


161 posted on 10/14/2010 6:56:48 PM PDT by cblue55 (Envisioning when all that is left is the right.)
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To: proud American in Canada

Either she really really stupid or she thinks
she can do any damn thing she wants to.

Not surprising at all.

I want to know what will be done about it.

If it were turned around you can bet some
heads would roll so let’s get on with it RNC.


162 posted on 10/14/2010 7:04:09 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS= Obama's Mosque, taxes, painful death. Is this what you want?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"You kind of have to drop the standard for the first lady, right?" the official explained late Thursday. "I mean, she's prety well liked and probably doesn't know what she's doing."

"Ignorance" of the law is no excuse and "dropping the standard" for ANYONE is a violation on the part of the official ...

She should be issued a citation and the official should be charged with aiding and abetting [then fired].

163 posted on 10/14/2010 7:19:52 PM PDT by Lmo56 (</i><p>)
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To: kcvl
“I don’t think it would be much to imagine, the First Lady might support her husband’s agenda,” Gibbs smiled.

Hey Gibbs - Defending his agenda is not against the law. HOWEVER, doing it within 100 feet of a polling place IS ...

DUMBASS !!!

164 posted on 10/14/2010 7:28:03 PM PDT by Lmo56 (</i><p>)
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To: Fresh Wind

“So what is the penalty for this?”
“Another vacation in Spain.”

You got that right.


165 posted on 10/14/2010 7:28:03 PM PDT by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: madameguinot

I used to play bridge with some of the people who helped rig the election for Kennedy... Chicago’s earned their reputation... Sorry about what your Dad had to go through.


166 posted on 10/14/2010 7:44:26 PM PDT by GOPJ ( - - - - - - Your universe: http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/)
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To: mandaladon

Nice post!

*bookmarked*


167 posted on 10/14/2010 7:54:29 PM PDT by NeverEVERKerry (I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

arrest the wookie !


168 posted on 10/14/2010 7:59:55 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: mandaladon

0bama’s eternity will suck even worse; he’s such a puppet.

Thank you for your service. Rock on!


169 posted on 10/14/2010 8:09:43 PM PDT by MonicaG (God bless our military! Praying and thanking God for you every day. Thank you!)
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To: Windflier

Hi Windflier,

Well they’ll be reining Michelle in again...too many blunders as before. They keep having to pick up after her.

Her religious comment..”Lean spirits around us”
Her ordering Hamburger and fries...not so bad if she wasn’t harping on the public for what they eat.
Her cmapaigning in a Polling area...not good.

Honestly I can’t believe her “minders” are staying in step with what she should and not be doing....someone isn’t doing their job. Inside job to derail her to get her back off the streets?


170 posted on 10/14/2010 8:11:44 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

she must be a typical leftist female lawyer


171 posted on 10/14/2010 8:14:25 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: mrmeyer

"Hey, where you going with my boob belt?"

172 posted on 10/14/2010 8:17:36 PM PDT by The Citizen Soldier (What I want for myself, I want for everyone else. -Samuel Milton)
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To: Blood of Tyrants; PatriotCJC
Doesn’t matter. The law says that NO ONE is allowed to engage in electioneering inside of or within 100 feet of a voting precinct.

I saw this enforced at my 2008 polling place. They even got out a measuring tape and paced off the area.

173 posted on 10/14/2010 8:19:05 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
M.O.'s a hideous sow and broke the law yet I really don't think too many of those voting at the Martin Luther King Center were in opposition to her message.
174 posted on 10/14/2010 9:43:54 PM PDT by jla
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To: caww
...they’ll be reining Michelle in again...too many blunders as before. They keep having to pick up after her.

Now that Rahm is gone, who's going to get the job of reining her in? Axelrod? Valerie Jarret? Fibbs?

Bozo sure as hell doesn't have the cojones to do it.

I'll bet that Michelle had a lot to do with all of the recent departures of Obama's staff. Notice that all of these resignations came right on the heels of Michelle's disastrously timed Spain trip, and just before the November elections.

I think that all those rats had already had enough of Michelle, and with the Democrat electoral Armageddon approaching, they really had few reasons left to stay on board. They all saw the handwriting on the wall, so why continue to put up with Chewbacca?

It's just a theory, but I'd bet good money that she's created a hellish atmosphere in the White House. It's really hard to work around people like that.

175 posted on 10/14/2010 9:54:28 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Breaking the law!


176 posted on 10/14/2010 10:02:16 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: caww
I do believe that Moochelle has a mind and mouth that caters to no one. Moochelle just doesn't give a damn. Does what she wants. You know, “she/they won!”

In the end, don't known when, don't know how, but WE THE PEOPLE WILL WIN, and settle some scores.

177 posted on 10/14/2010 10:26:20 PM PDT by itssme
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To: shadeaud
“Theys BOTH livin’ large!”
178 posted on 10/14/2010 10:35:48 PM PDT by itssme
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
A nothing story, and a distraction from the hard issues which are attracting people to vote for our side. This will so easily be spun as "attacking the First lady," and Obama will be shouting about it for all he's worth.

Keep your eye on the prize, and don't get distracted by such silliness, and it is indeed silliness.

179 posted on 10/14/2010 11:06:13 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!--Dr. Strangelove)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All

Hey, it just occurred to me - in MD there are multiple signs [BIG] that warn of electioneering within 100 feet of the polling place ...

They make the pols stand outside behind yellow tape ...

I think the 100-foot rule is federal law AND the signs mandating same ...

So, how can MEESHELL claim she didn’t know it ???


180 posted on 10/15/2010 12:02:22 AM PDT by Lmo56 (</i><p>)
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