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Reporting from Sarasota county, Florida.

After waving my Jeb Bush/Katherine Harris signs in one hand and American flag in the other for 2.5 hours along the highway, I went to my polling place still wearing my red "Vets for Jeb" t-shirt and voted. Some folks told me that I would be confronted for "making a political statement", but no one said boo. Florida's new touchscreen systems worked like a champ, and I was done in less than five minutes.

One thing I noticed immediately was that there were NO REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE SIGNS ANYWHERE at my precint. Very likely that the local rats stole them before sunup, but it was almost 10 AM and no resupply! So I drove up to the GOP HQ in Osprey and got a bunch of Jeb, Carlton and Bronson signs to populate my precinct. The folks running the HQ there got all defensive when I asked them what was going on, saying, "Oh, we have people doing that. We were asking for volunteers a week ago!". To which I said, "Well, you didn't ask me". Honestly, their "organization" and "communication" are very poor -- I've only been helping with a multitude of other aspects of the campaign for three months now...

I took some signs and went back to my precinct; I even souveinired two Harris signs on my way there, and there was one Jeb sign at the polls that wasn't there before. Whoopee-do. If that's their idea of taking care of things, we are hurting. In any case, I took care of business in my own way. All done.

I had to do the sign thing myself. They were supposed to do the signs last night. I'm thinking the dems removed them because there were some pubbie school board signs and Frank Farkas BUT NO CRIST, JEB, OR BRONSON FOR AGGY.

Why would someone pound some smaller races & school board pubbie signs in but not the most important ones?

Do we have to start guarding the precincts on election eve? Anyway, the place looks fine because I POUNDED SIGNS GETTING UP OUT OF MY DEATH BED for the lunch crowd and for the rush hour voters.

Guess I'll have to call headquarters to find out if they did the sign thing at my precinct. If they actually did, then DEM RATS removed them. Busted again!

I agree with you, Joe....our local Pubbies need to get a fire under them! We Freepers are setting an example I hope they will follow.

I got a call to show up at 11AM in Venice for Sign Wave with Katherine Harris.....I assumed it would be where we were last night....busiest intersection on 41.

When I got there at 11 no one in sight.....so wearing my Harris teeshirt I stood with two JEB signs for about 20 min. until the GOP Club president arrived. He told me that they all were over on the Isle near downtown.

I told him what a busy corner (by the drugstore) it was. After several honks & thumbs up for JEB; he agreed and stayed there with me until noon.

BTW when we were getting into our car this morning; a woman stopped to tell us she was going to GOP HQ to report that she overheard 2 poll workers sitting at the check-in table discussing our candidate Katherine Harris by name and saying 'I hope she doesn't win....she has a lot of money!'.
She remembered the poll workers by name (all wear name tags.

Then we went to vote and reported what she had told us to the Precinct Deputy on duty. Later we stopped at HQ and were told that by Conniw that she was calling our County Election Official to make the report. I hope those two workers are fired & never work in an election again.

I'm going to follow-up on what action was taken regarding their partisan behavior.

Manatee Co. FL update: Plucked my Jeb! sign from my yard, drove over to Pubbie HQ in Bradenton--where there were no signs to be had. Reported that a 2+ block stretch of road on either side of my precinct was loaded with 'Rat candidate signs, and nothing conservative in sight.

Nothing gained at Pubbie HQ, so I drove back to my precinct, and asked the security door man and another poll worker if there was a particular reason there were no conservative signs roadside--especially since there was a visible table in the parking lot with a huge sign, "Democratic Voter Support."

Precinct workers said no signs had been placed by conservatives, security said he had been watching all day. I asked if I could place my lonely Jeb! sign, and was enthusiastically told yes. Let's see if it is still there when I drive by again at 5:30pm.

Whew!