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  • Texas town has some odd ideas about free speech

    03/05/2010 10:04:40 AM PST · by SoonerStorm09 · 13 replies · 817+ views
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | March 4, 2010 | Bud Kennedy
    Lots of Texans waved political signs for candidates Tuesday. Chris Howe was locked up for it. In a story that sounds like something from behind the Iron Curtain, Watauga police jailed Howe, 29, for holding a campaign sign on public property. He supported Debra Medina. But it wouldn't matter if he supported Kinky Friedman. What matters is that an American city has put a man in jail for free speech. Since 2000, Watauga has specifically outlawed political signs on public property. It's part of your typical city ordinance restricting garage-sale signs and other litter. Somehow, police and city attorneys stretched...