I hate to make the comparison but these teabaggers so much remind me of the Nazis when they were still a regional party in Bavaria. They have very similar tactics.
NY-23: Police Called To Polling Place
by BarbinMD
Tue Nov 03, 2009 at 12:46:02 PM PST
The crazies are out in force:
It's getting ugly out there.
I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O'Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County due to overzealous electioneering (O'Neill called it "voter intimidation") by Doug Hoffman supporters.
"We've gotten reports that people are standing there, covered with Hoffman stickers and yelling anti-choice stuff at voters," said O'Neill, a St. Lawrence native who has been running the party's GOTV effort for Bill Owens in NY-23.
"Apparently, there's some woman claiming to be a commissioner," O'Neill continued. "Commissioner of what, I don't know. She's from Texas, I think, and she won't leave."
"This is not the way we roll in the North Country."
That should give the undecided voters a moment's pause.
A Republican Elections Commissioner said that is was "a routine procedure" when there is electioneering within 100 feet of a polling place, while a spokeswoman for an anti-choice group that's up there campaigning for Hoffman went with a whine:
"At least three of our volunteers have been threatened with police when they're not doing anything wrong," Yearout said. "They haven't seen any Democrats. No one for Owens."
"So, apparently, the poll workers who are Owens supporters are doing the only thing they can do: Intimidate. And they're doing that by calling the police. Nobody's been arrested because nobody's doing anything wrong."
,b>So, all of the poll workers are in the bag for Owens and are just harassing the screaming, sticker-infested out-of-towners patriots. And apparently it's an epidemic - of Hoffman supporters violating electioneering rules that is, not of sticker-cover nutcases. As far as we know. |
