"Hey, where you going with my boob belt?"
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...
Good grief! What is it with Meeshell and the belts?
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.
"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].
Hey Gibbs - Defending his agenda is not against the law. HOWEVER, doing it within 100 feet of a polling place IS ...
DUMBASS !!!
“So what is the penalty for this?”
“Another vacation in Spain.”
You got that right.
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.
Nice post!
*bookmarked*
arrest the wookie !
0bama’s eternity will suck even worse; he’s such a puppet.
Thank you for your service. Rock on!
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?
she must be a typical leftist female lawyer
"Hey, where you going with my boob belt?"
I saw this enforced at my 2008 polling place. They even got out a measuring tape and paced off the area.
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.
Breaking the law!
In the end, don't known when, don't know how, but WE THE PEOPLE WILL WIN, and settle some scores.
Keep your eye on the prize, and don't get distracted by such silliness, and it is indeed silliness.
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 ???
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