"damn this button...I have a 2:30 at Hot chick-a-latte"
Posted on 05/20/2008 10:02:38 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- The poll worker who called a polling place "Obama's house" in front of a television news crew apologized -- then accused the local TV station of altering its footage to incriminate her.
Kim Minor also told the Vanderburgh County Election Board that her "tight pants" were partly to blame for the remarks broadcast by WTVW-FOX7 and posted on YouTube.
Afterward, Election Board members Tom Massey, David Shaw and County Clerk Susan Kirk voted 3-0 to turn over WTVW-FOX7's unedited tape of the incident to the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor's Office for investigation.
Bob Walters, news director of WTVW-FOX7, called Minor's remarks "totally ridiculous" and her theory of videotape manipulation impossible for the local station.
Minor, a Democrat, and Republican poll worker Leon "Big Man" Collins, who called the polling place at Zion Missionary Baptist Church "McCain's house," told the Election Board that the incident on May 6 was not intentional.
"I cannot express the mistake that I made," Minor said. "... I've got no excuse for it, I'm not going to try to make an excuse for it. I made a mistake."
In WTVW-FOX7's broadcast, Minor is shown saying, "This is (Barack) Obama's house," chanting Obama's name and asking who in the polling place supports the Illinois Democrat. Collins says it is "(John) McCain's house."
When Minor asks who supports Obama, she looks over her right shoulder -- where the tape shows the voting machines were stationed -- and appears to be counting people.
"One, two, three, four, five," she says, pointing around the room.
But facing the Election Board on Friday, Minor accused WTVW-FOX7 of altering its tape of the incident to make it appear voters were present when they were not.
"I think Fox 7 cut out some of this here, and put this here, because when this was going on, it was nobody in there, it was just us workers, the watchers -- that's all that was in there," she said. "There wasn't no voters in there. When Fox 7 showed it, they showed voters back there at the polls. It was nobody in there."
After the meeting, Kirk said the point is moot because the presence or absence of voters has no bearing on illegal electioneering in polling places.
"The statute says there is no electioneering within 50 feet of the polling place, period," she said. "It does not say if there's no voters in there, if it's just poll workers, this and that."
Walters said Hollywood moviemakers may be able to insert people who weren't present into a scene, but "in the world of local TV, it doesn't exist."
"You can't add somebody into a shot," he said. "We'd have absolutely no reason to do that."
Minor also told the Election Board that her remarks in the polling place could be attributed to her ill temper on a bad day. She said she had been annoyed when a poll worker under Collins' charge left the church without authorization to get some food, when food was already available.
"My pants were too tight," she said. "I mean, you know, they were, like, cutting into my side. And I couldn't leave to go change my pants."
"... Maybe a little stuff had built up in me, and that's when I went too far."
"damn this button...I have a 2:30 at Hot chick-a-latte"
I went to vote one time and a poll worker had a sample ballot laid out with the incumbent U.S. Senator’s name circled.
When I asked why the Senator’s name was circled, the fool said, “So people will know how to vote.”
I called the Election Board and they basically said “So?”
Where did she get her education?
I guess she represents the new standard for liberal journalists.
“Wilbur Mills”
Bwaaa! I met his “girlfriend” Fanne on Poipu Beach about 10 days after the scandal broke. Wilbur was hidin’ her out on the island. She was,,,,an Argentine Firecracker for sure!
“Tight Pants”
Squeezed the brain, did it?
(Go Wings!)
Thanks for the confirmation ;-)
She takes English lessons from Obama’a wife.
Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty.
The BS excuse?
why is it when I read this I started hearing James Brown singing “Hot Pants” in my head.
So is that what she said? That’s all? “Obama’s house?”. Fired for that?
Madness.
Obviously this particular polling place must be Obama’s house if there weren’t any fat, white, tobacco chewing sheriffs with dogs and shotguns to keep the poor honest Democrats out.
Obviously this particular polling place must be Obama’s house if there weren’t any fat, white, tobacco chewing sheriffs with dogs and shotguns to keep the poor honest Democrats out.
To #35... Shoot, I dont remember the 60s, 70s 80s and some of the 90s. Now in my mid 50s Im starting to not remember last week.
As a former poll worker, both who made those comments should atleast not be allowed to work again at the polls and at worst both be prosecuted for voter intimadation. No political speak is to be allowed inside of the polls, period. I get really upset when it is allowed to happen and next time it happens I am complaining!
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