Posted on 10/22/2010 10:19:13 AM PDT by kristinn
There are two reports that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) violated electioneering laws inside a polling place and harassed poll watchers at the Acres Home Multiservice Community Center on October 18th.
Liberty Pundits has two eyewitness anonymous sources, a poll watcher and an election clerk, who describe Rep. Jackson Lee speaking with and shaking hands of voters inside a polling place located in the same building as her district office and getting in the faces of poll watchers
KPRC 950 host Michael Berry (@28:45) interviewed Houston poll watcher Catherine Engelbrecht of King Street Patriots/True The Vote on October 19th about what was relayed to her by poll watcher Marcia Ferguson.
Engelbrecht said that the poll watcher complained to the election judge that Jackson Lee was violating the law by campaigning inside the polling place by shaking hands with voters waiting in line to vote.
Engelbrecht did not know the whole story of what happened other than the poll watcher complaining.
Liberty Pundits had a fuller account from their sources who asked for anonymity for their safety:
So the source, a poll watcher, went into the room housing the voting booths and there stood Congresswoman Lee shaking hands with voters and greeting others–clearly electioneering. The poll watcher then went to one of the clerks and asked the presiding judge to take care of it.
While this occurred, the poll watcher heard Lee loudly say to the crowd in the voting area,”I’ve heard a lot of complaints about voter intimidation by poll watchers. I am not going to allow voter intimidation.”
The poll watcher started writing the incident down.
Lee then went to the poll watcher and asked,”What’s your name? Who do you represent?”
A poll watcher is not allowed to speak in the polling area, so directed Congresswoman Lee to the presiding judge. The poll watcher said that Congresswoman Lee indicated that she wanted names to report to the Department of Justice for voter intimidation.
The presiding judge asked Congresswoman Lee to leave.
... This account is backed up by another worker there, an election clerk, who also wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. He relayed concern for his safety.
The election clerk described the poll watchers as timid. He said that they stayed out of the way, were quiet and and did not talk to any voters.
He confirms that Congresswoman Lee was, in fact, back near the voting booths and talking to the presiding judge but he did not overhear her conversation but saw her from a distance. He estimated that Sheila Jackson Lee was within 10 feet of the voting machines but was not herself voting. He also witnessed Congresswoman Lee talking to the poll watcher but again, could not hear the contents of the conversation.
The clerk corroborated the poll watcher’s report that there were consistent election law violations in the polling places.
There have been no reports in the media about this reported egregious violation of the law by by a U.S. Congresswoman.
H/t Dan Riehl and BlogHouston.net
A personal account of the Texas Congress person who is a disgrace to her District, Texas and America:
I once rode on the same plane from Reagan International to Houston Intercontinental with the poor excuse for a Congress person. She, of course, had a Business/First Class ticket, but that wasn’t good enough - she asked the person sitting on the aisle in the front row if she could sit there (I don’t know what she would have done if he had refused). Her aide had an economy seat, but spent most of her time in the First Class cabin attending to the queen’s every whim. And, the way she talked to and treated the obviously lower class, less intelligent flight attendants was embarrassing. There are reports of her verbal abuse of aides, misuse of their services, and their high turnover rate, of which I have no personal knowledge. But, after seeing her in action, I have no doubt of their veracity.
Unfortunately, the fact that she continues to be re-elected doesn’t say much for her supporters. She is a disgrace to her race, Texas, and America.
It’s really scary that there are so many people running around with barely the intellegence to sustain breathing, going to the mailbox to pick up a check, and voting democrat functionality.
It’s damned scary and disgusting. They are too stupid to know they’re bing screwed and enslaved.
And DC Bryan, she should be in jail now on NFA "conspiracy" charges, instead of the good men the Feds sent to prison or to their grave over the accursed NFA34.
I just got off the phone with her office in Houston, and they confirmed that she was at that location on Monday. So if she later denies being there, we’ve got confirmation. I also tipped the local NBC station, and will do so with the other local stations. We’ll see if this can at least get some local play.
Use your phone or get creative and invest in something like this:
Catch these idjits breaking the law then annonmously load it to the internet and watch the fun!
and doesn't that rankle your @$$.
Thanks. Good work!
This woman’s arrogance is despicable. She is a poster child for what can go wrong in a democracy/Republic.
Wow! You learned how to beat an old black woman? How awesome!
When the Republicans control the House for the 112th Congress, this question can be addressed by the Judiciary Committee/Ethics Panel of the House...
It just figures that that knuckle-dragging loudmouth would be at the center of an ugly bullying incident like this. Lee, an obnoxious cow, is as bad as Cynthia McKinney. She is a foul-mouthed, arrogant oaf.
NBC Houston said they would look into it.
CBS Houston said they are already looking into it.
Left a message at FOX Houston.
Cellphones are not allowed to be used in the polls in WI. There are 2 reasons: 1) we don’t want voters taking direction from someone outside the polls when voting. 2) we don’t want people taking pictures of ballots being filled out.
That said, I think that every election worker ought to have the ability to record wrong doing at the polls whenever it happens. By the time you report it to the authorities, the perp is gone. Or (in the worst case) you may be dead.
What an embarrassment to Texas. How DOES she keep getting
re-elected...and I hope this time is her Waterloo, as it were!
Sadly our Big cities are full of entitlement types that love socialist turds like her.
I can assure you that she did not scare off any Republican voters in the Acres Home polling place. No Republican would even drive within a mile of that area.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) is:
Black
A Democrat
A senior member of Congress
A certifiable moron
Notice the leftist meme -
wanting legal, fair elections is “voter intimidation”.
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