Posted on 10/22/2010 11:20:35 AM PDT by mandaladon
HOUSTON -- A voter who went to the polls Thursday at an early voting location south of the Texas Medical Center served as this mid-term election’s reminder to keep your politically themed clothing at home.
"This is ridiculous,” Tamika Francis told 11 News as she stood outside the Fiesta grocery store at Main and Kirby, where she had just been denied the right to vote.
“That’s not going to roll with me. Is it going to roll with you?” she asked her mom, who had traveled to the polling location with her.
The problem is that Francis was wearing a 2008 Obama election shirt. It has photos of the first family during the campaign accompanied by the phrase “Our President Obama.” The presiding elections judge told her she could not vote, nor could she help her disabled mother vote, until she either turned the shirt inside out or covered it up to hide the message and photos.
(Excerpt) Read more at khou.com ...
And she got indignant about being rejected because she feels entitled and is not keen on this silly abiding by the rules nonsense.
Is it this Tamika Francis?
http://www.myspace.com/488446065
Shawna-kay Tamika Francis?
If so, then she’s still one year too young to vote.
That don’t roll with ME.
I know that poll watchers and other “official” persons can’t wear partisan paraphernalia, but it’s news to me that “mere” voters are prohibited.
It said her Mother was disabled, was she in a wheelchair?
Unfortunately, Barbara Billingsley just passed away...
Oh yeah that’s been the law in many states, if not all, for quite a number of years. Otherwise every voter that walks in the door would know what it’s like to be the U.N. guy passing out rice after an earthquake.
Why assume a physical handicap?
I’m all for making it harder to vote. People like this wouldn’t be voting at all if they had a single day to vote and had to stand in line to do it.
Darn - and Barbara Billingsly just passed away last weekend - now we'll never know what that girl was sayin'..............
Good thing I scrolled down before I replied.
I was sad when I read about it, and then about Tom Bosley within a couple of days.
Even though they were actors and largely a fabrication of writers, their characters were family icons. There aren't many like them today.
What I’m picturing is the alternate and much more forceful way of expressing disagreement. Rather than rotating your head back and forth, look forward at all times as you swing your chin toward one shoulder and then the other, like your head is short and rapidly swinging pendulum.
The best I can offer is a few too-short glimpses here and there from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVrNV_5LhNE&feature=related
I was in a plain denim shirt and could easily have lodged a protest. But I didn't because it soon became apparent that the jackass guy was ramping up GOP turnout. Some of our voters even went home to drag their kids or aged parents back to vote.
Most states have laws against clothing like this and any political talk in line at the polls.I had to tell people to take off their pins or turn their shirts inside out if they wanted to vote if they got mouthy about it we called the police.It’s the law.
Oh, no you DIH-unht!
Probably sheila jackson lee voter too.
*off topic...
Did anyone see that other link, after following the thread link?
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The lady wasn’t dead but they had written her off as such and were ready to harvest her organs (b/c she was an organ donor)
Thank goodness she showed signs of brain activity last minute.
http://www.khou.com/news/Woman-makes-miraculous-comeback-from-brain-death-diagnosis-105533163.html
Sorry, to slide off topic but the story was rather shocking/frightening to me.
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