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Houston woman's Obama T-shirt serves as voting 'dress code' reminder
KHOU.com ^

Posted on 10/22/2010 11:20:35 AM PDT by mandaladon

HOUSTON -- A voter who went to the polls Thursday at an early voting location south of the Texas Medical Center served as this mid-term election’s reminder to keep your politically themed clothing at home.

"This is ridiculous,” Tamika Francis told 11 News as she stood outside the Fiesta grocery store at Main and Kirby, where she had just been denied the right to vote.

“That’s not going to roll with me. Is it going to roll with you?” she asked her mom, who had traveled to the polling location with her.

The problem is that Francis was wearing a 2008 Obama election shirt. It has photos of the first family during the campaign accompanied by the phrase “Our President Obama.” The presiding elections judge told her she could not vote, nor could she help her disabled mother vote, until she either turned the shirt inside out or covered it up to hide the message and photos.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: democrats; elections; obama; texas; voting
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To: HIDEK6
“That’s not going to roll with me. Is it going to roll with you?” Does anyone here speak jive? I'd like to have a translation.

"One is not amused, my dear."
21 posted on 10/22/2010 11:38:10 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: mandaladon
This is the type person that can vote, not smart enough to know your not allowed to wear any type of party clothing, stickers etc. now you know why the country is in the shape its in, she voted for the clown on the shirt.

And she got indignant about being rejected because she feels entitled and is not keen on this silly abiding by the rules nonsense.

22 posted on 10/22/2010 11:38:19 AM PDT by Allegra (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: mandaladon

Is it this Tamika Francis?

http://www.myspace.com/488446065

Shawna-kay Tamika Francis?

If so, then she’s still one year too young to vote.


23 posted on 10/22/2010 11:39:29 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: Cicero

That don’t roll with ME.


24 posted on 10/22/2010 11:40:50 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: mandaladon

I know that poll watchers and other “official” persons can’t wear partisan paraphernalia, but it’s news to me that “mere” voters are prohibited.


25 posted on 10/22/2010 11:54:29 AM PDT by PA BOOKEND
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To: mandaladon
“That’s not going to roll with me. Is it going to roll with you?” she asked her mom

It said her Mother was disabled, was she in a wheelchair?

26 posted on 10/22/2010 11:55:44 AM PDT by OCC
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To: HIDEK6
*“That’s not going to roll with me. Is it going to roll with you?”
Does anyone here speak jive? I'd like to have a translation.*

Unfortunately, Barbara Billingsley just passed away...

27 posted on 10/22/2010 11:58:06 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: PA BOOKEND
I sure as hell hope you don't vote.
No further comment.
28 posted on 10/22/2010 11:58:51 AM PDT by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: PA BOOKEND

Oh yeah that’s been the law in many states, if not all, for quite a number of years. Otherwise every voter that walks in the door would know what it’s like to be the U.N. guy passing out rice after an earthquake.


29 posted on 10/22/2010 12:00:13 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: OCC

Why assume a physical handicap?


30 posted on 10/22/2010 12:02:42 PM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: mandaladon

I’m all for making it harder to vote. People like this wouldn’t be voting at all if they had a single day to vote and had to stand in line to do it.


31 posted on 10/22/2010 12:03:23 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: HIDEK6
"Does anyone here speak jive? I'd like to have a translation."

Darn - and Barbara Billingsly just passed away last weekend - now we'll never know what that girl was sayin'..............

32 posted on 10/22/2010 12:04:56 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: PATRIOT1876
Unfortunately, Barbara Billingsley just passed away...

Good thing I scrolled down before I replied.

I was sad when I read about it, and then about Tom Bosley within a couple of days.

Even though they were actors and largely a fabrication of writers, their characters were family icons. There aren't many like them today.

33 posted on 10/22/2010 12:06:42 PM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: rahbert

What I’m picturing is the alternate and much more forceful way of expressing disagreement. Rather than rotating your head back and forth, look forward at all times as you swing your chin toward one shoulder and then the other, like your head is short and rapidly swinging pendulum.

The best I can offer is a few too-short glimpses here and there from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVrNV_5LhNE&feature=related


34 posted on 10/22/2010 12:10:47 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jiggyboy
One year, I was the GOP poll watcher when the Dem counterpart (a union hack) showed up with one of those jackets with a white background decorated in red and blue jackass silhouettes.

I was in a plain denim shirt and could easily have lodged a protest. But I didn't because it soon became apparent that the jackass guy was ramping up GOP turnout. Some of our voters even went home to drag their kids or aged parents back to vote.

35 posted on 10/22/2010 12:35:34 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: jiggyboy
I early voted yesterday in Tennessee, and the local candidates had a combination tent city and three-ring circus set up outside the early polling place, right up to the 50-foot limit. This voter was turned off, not on. Fortunately my favorite candidates weren't there. Probably working.

36 posted on 10/22/2010 12:45:48 PM PDT by Genoa
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To: mandaladon

Most states have laws against clothing like this and any political talk in line at the polls.I had to tell people to take off their pins or turn their shirts inside out if they wanted to vote if they got mouthy about it we called the police.It’s the law.


37 posted on 10/22/2010 12:53:58 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: jiggyboy
With no effort whatsoever, I can see every "walk like an Egyptian" head pivot, finger-wag, and hands-on-hips lean-in.

Oh, no you DIH-unht!

38 posted on 10/22/2010 12:57:39 PM PDT by Sloth (Civil disobedience? I'm afraid only the uncivil kind is going to cut it this time.)
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To: ValerieTexas; txhurl; basil; SwinneySwitch; austinaero; lormand; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; Xenalyte; ...

Probably sheila jackson lee voter too.


39 posted on 10/22/2010 1:02:19 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Remember in November. Clean the house on Nov. 2. / Progressive is a PC word for liberal democrat.)
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To: All

*off topic...

Did anyone see that other link, after following the thread link?
**
The lady wasn’t dead but they had written her off as such and were ready to harvest her organs (b/c she was an organ donor)

Thank goodness she showed signs of brain activity last minute.

http://www.khou.com/news/Woman-makes-miraculous-comeback-from-brain-death-diagnosis-105533163.html

Sorry, to slide off topic but the story was rather shocking/frightening to me.


40 posted on 10/22/2010 1:04:27 PM PDT by Irenic
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