McCain supporters heckle early voters.
By on Oct 20th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
McCain supporters heckle early voters.
On Sunday, the Washington Times’s Christina Bellantoni stopped by a polling place in North Carolina, where she reported that a “group of loud and angry protestors” — almost all of whom were white — were shouting and mocking voters — nearly all of whom were black. Bellatoni noted that people “were shouting about Obama’s acknowledged cocaine use as a young man, abortion and one man used the word ‘terrorist.’ They also were complaining that Sundays are for church, not voting.” Watch it:
Last Thursday and Friday, more than 200,000 voters went the polls in the first two days of early voting in North Carolina.
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Don’t even think about it ClusterTim…
October 20th, 2008 at 7:01 pmFrom Associated Press
Breaking news, maybe OT, maybe relevant:
October 20, 2008 5:29 PM EDT
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A popular local TV anchorwoman who had a small part in the Bush biopic “W” was in critical condition Monday after being beaten in her home, and police said they are investigating possible motives.
KATV anchor Anne Pressly, 26, was found about 4:30 a.m. Monday by her mother, who went to the house when her daughter didn’t answer a wake-up call
October 20th, 2008 at 7:03 pmIs it just me, or are these Republicans looking and acting more like members of the KKK, or [insert name of other white supremacist group(s)] with every passing day?
This ugliness looks bad on every Republican, especially if they will not clearly come out and condemn these actions in the strongest language possible. And remaining silent to appeal to ‘your base’ makes it all the worse.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:05 pmtypical behavior, from those people
October 20th, 2008 at 7:05 pm“Sundays are for church, not voting.”
Unless the polling place was the local Southern Babtist Church I am wondering why the local KKK were not in their pew saying their prayers, singing their hymns, shouting their “Amen”s and sipping their fruit jars of White Lightening?”
October 20th, 2008 at 7:08 pmMakes one consider acquiring an assault weapon.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:09 pmDontcha just love trailerpark trash??????
October 20th, 2008 at 7:10 pmdbadass Says:
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Don’t even think about it ClusterTim…
LMAO
October 20th, 2008 at 7:11 pm“They also were complaining that Sundays are for church, not voting.”
Apparently the state of North Carolina disagrees, or they would have prohibited voting on Sundays.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:11 pmWhat’s the point anyway? These people are honestly protesting people voting?! There’s nothing more American than voting! I guess the goal is just to hassle people since there’s no chance the heckling is going to change anybody’s vote.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:11 pmMaybe the big cities up north should ship some kids from the projects down there to escort the voters to the polls.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:13 pmThis took place in Fayetteville, NC which is dominated by the large Fort Bragg there. Many residents are vets. Businesses there are dependent on the military.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:13 pmThe disdain for democracy has spread from McCain and Palin to their supporters.
Lost conservatives whom might vote for a McCain presidency are sure to flea if this sort of thing keeps up. It is becoming impossible to support this crew.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:13 pm“Sunday is not for voting”, but it is for hassling people who are availing themselves of their constitutional right to vote!
McCain and Palin have stirred up so much hate in this country it’s just a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt or killed. And they will say “It’s not our fault, we didn’t tell them to do that”. There is a special place in hell reserved for those two.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:14 pmInbreeding does some funny things to people….
….it is now the Racist, KKK members against the rest of the country it seems.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:14 pmThey also were complaining that Sundays are for church, not voting.”
So WTF are they doing? Sundays are for intimidation?
October 20th, 2008 at 7:14 pmThey look like the same kind of terrorist that bomb abortion clinics. Is John McCain going to disavow these domestic terrorists?
October 20th, 2008 at 7:15 pmVoter intimidation is … sooooooo “fifties” (along with slicked-back hair and Palin ‘dos). Which it should be: 25 to 50 with no time off for good behaviour.
Cheers,
October 20th, 2008 at 7:16 pmDo civilized countries like Britain, Holland, Germany, France, have such problems voting? I know Zimbabwe has such problems.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:17 pmWhat, no unwed teen mothers to harrass? Think they changed anyone’s mind? Thy probably just reinforced the reasons for voting for the person they were voting for.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:21 pmSundays are for voting in many countries, which is one of the reasons those countries have a higher voter turnout than the US. Someday, maybe this country will catch up and realize that more people will vote if they don’t have to do it when they’re supposed to be at work.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:22 pmHow is this not a violation of one’s civil rights?
October 20th, 2008 at 7:23 pmDon’t these people have a gay funeral they could be protesting, instead?
To protest people who are exercising their right to vote has to be one of the most un-American things one can do.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:24 pmBob Says:
What, no unwed teen mothers to harrass?
Don’t bring Palin’s children into this!
October 20th, 2008 at 7:24 pmShayne Says:
Maybe the big cities up north should ship some kids from the projects down there to escort the voters to the polls.
I wonder if federal troops have to be sent in ala Little Rock to enforce the right of these Americans to vote?
October 20th, 2008 at 7:25 pmnice – real nice. I can’t wait to see what these scum are going to do when they realize that OBAMA IS THE PRESIDent OF ThE UNITED STATES !!!!!
I see mass suicides in the near future.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:25 pmThose protestors need to read the post before this one. Didn’t they know that Representative Hayes claims that Republicans are “kind people”?
Then again, perhaps Hayes meant to say “Republicans are kind of like people”. Just less civilized and not nearly as intelligent.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:27 pmMore typical behavior from “those people”.
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200881020067
October 20th, 2008 at 7:27 pmTired at #3,
It is my feeling that all but the right-wing-nuts have written off this election and are just waiting to get it over with. I predict (my record is 2 for 2: I predicted after Obama’s keynote speech in 2004 that we had just heard the speech of the next Democratic President; I predicted when gasoline hit $4.00 per gallon that we would be paying less than $3.00 for premium by election day. We filled up today at Sam’s Club in Arizona for $3.009. Close enough Granny says.) that we will see extrodinary numbers of Republican voters voting for Obama or staying home and praying for him. Case in point: my brother the Pharmacist (72) has NEVER voted for a Democrat. He and my sister-in-law (equally unmoveable) have sworn they will not vote for Obama. They have, however, booked a trip out of the Country over election day and do not plan to vote. It may just be two votes that are not for McSame but it is also two votes Obama doesn’t need to cancel their votes. Don’t believe me until November 5th and go vote to make it come true. Make it a self-fullfilling prediction, don’t tell me it can’t be done, help me do it!
October 20th, 2008 at 7:28 pmA little off topic, but good to know –
Sen. John McCain stopped in Columbia on Monday afternoon.
A crowd of about 15 people assembled outside the airport’s fence to see him descend from the plane.
Florence Phillips said she was upset at the small size of the crowd gathered to see McCain
October 20th, 2008 at 7:29 pmI’m glad to see they brought their “McCain” campaign posters
October 20th, 2008 at 7:29 pmso everyone would know who they are. Ha
never watch the show, but this is a hoot:
Family Guy: McCain-Palin Ticket Appeals to Nazis?
In case you missed last night’s episode of Family Guy, Stewie and Brian steal some Nazi uniforms (get a recap) and find a lapel button promoting the McCain-Palin campaign. Ouch!
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b64626_family_guy_mccain-palin_ticket_appeals.html
follow the “recap” link for more… the video didn’t work for me…
October 20th, 2008 at 7:33 pm#10 fletc3her:
What’s the point anyway? These people are honestly protesting people voting?! There’s nothing more American than voting! I guess the goal is just to hassle people since there’s no chance the heckling is going to change anybody’s vote.
The point is intimidation. To scare off people from voting. Keep in mind that it was in my lifetime that they did the same damn thing to keep newly enfranchised blacks from voting all across the South (they had gained the franchise in the 19th century, but until the Voting Rights Act, the striking down of “poll taxes” and “literacy tests” and such, blacks had been effectively disenfranchised). And the RW has been doing it ever since, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Rehnquist in Arizona as a young Republicaqn, and the stuff in Florida in 2000, just as examples….
Many blacks still remember the physical attacks, and most of the rfest have heard about “strange fruit” and such.
Don’t think for a moment that an angry, screaming mob across the street will not be on the mind of a single mother, perhaps with her children, walking to the polling station….
Cheers,
October 20th, 2008 at 7:33 pmWhile insulting and harrassing voters,these extremists did not forget to remind voters that it is Sunday,it is a church day.
Did these extremists attend a rally by Palin or McCain the night before?
October 20th, 2008 at 7:33 pmSunday’s not a day for voting but it’s ok to harass people doing their civic
duty.
Teh stoopit.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:34 pmIt burns.
Crusty Old Bastard, don’t tell people to vote Nov 5th! That’s a Republican dirty trick.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:34 pmWhat would happen if large groups of non-white protesters went into voting sites in white neighborhoods and behaved like these goons?
October 20th, 2008 at 7:34 pmI do not think that the police would passively observe as they surely would forcibly disperse.
“Sundays are for church, not voting.”
The ignorant people who said this should heed their own words, because I imagine that in their faith, Sundays are for church, not protesting & intimidating people to keep them from a democratic right- voting. Also, Sundays are not the religious day for many people, you narrow-minded bigots. Is this the type of “freedom” Bush/Cheney/McCain/Palin promote– freedom to be harassed when you exercise your freedom to vote?
October 20th, 2008 at 7:36 pmAnd more bad news for the ReichWingers -
“Obama had an estimated 100,000 people come out to see him at the St. Louis Arch on Saturday. (was re-estimated to be 175,000 by the police)
In suburban St. Louis today, McCain had a crowd of about 2,000.
McCain was stumping in the metro D.C. area on Saturday afternoon — a much larger population center than St. Louis — McCain had somewhere between 4,000-6,000 people.”
I really don’t see how McCain has a chance at all….unless it is rigged again by election machines.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:36 pmbuckie – are you in columbia?
October 20th, 2008 at 7:37 pmThe hecklers said “they don’t open the DMV on a Sunday so I can register my car”. Someone should have said “the DMV is open more than one day per year”.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:38 pmWell I’m sure they are helping mccain get elected. Not!
October 20th, 2008 at 7:39 pm#28 muzz:
nice – real nice. I can’t wait to see what these scum are going to do when they realize that OBAMA IS THE PRESIDent OF ThE UNITED STATES !!!!!
A lot of them will go crazy and do (or try) stoopid sh*te. The good news is that they’ll be flushed out into the open. The bad news is that we’ll have to expand (and pay for) prisons to hold the worst of them. The really bad news is that one of them might even succeed, like Timothy McVeigh … or as John Hinkley nearly did.
Cheers,
October 20th, 2008 at 7:39 pmMost in Fayetteville spend Sundays drinking beer and watching NASCAR or the NFL.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:40 pmkaty Says:
buckie – are you in columbia?
Seattle, Washington
October 20th, 2008 at 7:41 pmIn any case like this, the local authorities should be called in immediately to determine whether the “voting protesters” have a permit for their activity – if not they should be dispersed, detained, or otherwise quelled.
Just remain calm and call the cops on’em folks.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:43 pmWho organized this group? The Klu Klux Klan? The American Nazi Party? Mossad? All of them working together? I thought it was illegal to put bags of garbage in the street.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:43 pmKeith Says: “Crusty Old Bastard, don’t tell people to vote Nov 5th! That’s a Republican dirty trick.”
Keith,
You damn sure must be a Rethuglican ’cause you done took my statement out of context. However, you may be right! What I was trying to say was: “Go vote for Obama now and on November 5 we can all shout: “CONGRATULATIONS, PRESIDENT OBAMA!
October 20th, 2008 at 7:44 pmI just watched a McCain/Palin campaign stop on C-Span, and saw Hank Williams Jr. singing about them, and working “socialism,” “hot,” and “terrorist” into his routine.
He should be ashamed. His father would slap him silly, for ever campaigning with a republican.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:46 pmI was in a very very peaceful protest in Fayetteville once, protesting the School of the Americas (Torture Training Academy) and the police were constantly videotaping us.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:47 pmCrusty Ole,
October 20th, 2008 at 7:49 pmMy sorry, I thought you were telling people to vote Nov 5th. Rethugs were making phone calls and leaflets like that in ‘04. I like Kucinich and Nader, myself.
Keith Says: “I like Kucinich and Nader, myself.”
Keith,
No offense was taken! I was just thanking you for your response. I would have been happy with Dennis but old Ralphie Baby has the same problem as McSenile and I do: we have eaten too many birthday cakes!
October 20th, 2008 at 8:01 pmWere there any arrests made in connection with these federal crimes?
Plus, the machines are already failing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/20/florida-voting-machines-b_n_136342.html
October 20th, 2008 at 8:02 pmOops! That should be “failing”.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:02 pmI just voted for Obama/Biden – and every other democrat on the ballot. It feels good……
October 20th, 2008 at 8:05 pmCrusty, Nader seems pretty mentally sharp to me. McCain doesn’t know what his position on anything is supposed to be from one minute to the next. A lot of desperate lurching.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:06 pmIsn’t this kind of behavior illegal at a polling place? This is pure voter intimidation.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:14 pm(sigh)
‘Cause Nothing says “America” and “Democracy” like Intimidating Voters…
Hope Sen. McCain is proud of his base.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:23 pmIsn’t this kind of behavior illegal at a polling place? This is pure voter intimidation.
This is why they send people to other countries, to be sure the election is democratic with no voter intimidation. It appears some Americans need some help with the concept of democracy.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:26 pmYes, Who Lied Today, I believe that intimidating voters at a polling place is a federal offense. Although I suppose it’s possible that the Chimp put through a signing statement to protect “real Americans” from prosecution.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:26 pmThis is all the angry conservative crackers have. The base of the party – the 10-20 percent who would take a bullet before voting across party lines – will stoop lower and lower until election day. They know deep down that their party is toast – but all they can do is throw infantile temper tantrums. Let’s hope that is the extent of their actions.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:29 pmHope Sen. McCain is proud of his base.
Honestly, I believe McCain regrets getting the nomination. The look on his face when he is in a town hall setting and someone spews the ‘Obama is a terrorist’ or ‘muslin’ or whatever falsehood, is very telling. Of course, he could show great leadership by repudiating these people and telling them to stop the nonesense – but I don’t think he has the leadership skills to do it. His campaign has gone down the wrong road and he can’t stop it now.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:31 pmThese people didn’t just show up spontaneously. Somebody is organizing them. Why didn’t the reporter ask?????
October 20th, 2008 at 8:31 pmThese people are more than likely unemployed and are being paid by the Repubs by the hour.
They’d rather be sitting on a couch drinking beer and watching teevee, but their mommies made them go out and get a temp job.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:33 pmRedneck theme song:
Just the good ol’ boys,
Never meanin’ no harm,
Beats all you’ve ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born.
Straight’nin’ the curve,
Flat’nin’ the hills.
Someday the moutain might get ‘em, but the law never will.
Makin’ their way,
The only way they know how,
That’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.
Just good ol’ boys,
October 20th, 2008 at 8:33 pmWouldn’t change if they could,
Fightin’ the system like a true modern day Robin Hood.
I am from North Carolina and having two stories like this saddens and disgusts me!
Since when has it become legal to harass people standing in line to vote? Why weren’t the authorities called?
The third big story not reported on is that many tires were slashed on cars belonging to people attending an Obama rally in NC. Not a few but 30 cars!
The republicans are so fu*king responsible for inciting people to act like this, especially Biblespice.
I am writing my attorney general and asking for an investigation and police protection for people who are voting. Anybody can send Roy Copper an email, just go to the North Carolina site.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:44 pmAnd then there’s this lovely news story about the bear cub that was shot, Obama campaign posters stapled around it’s head and dumped at Western Carolina University…
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200881020067
At what point will the UN step in to monitor our election?
October 20th, 2008 at 8:53 pmNC atty general contact:
http://www.ncdoj.com/default_contactus_form.jsp?sectionid=ag&subsectionid=general
October 20th, 2008 at 8:55 pmso now we know
where the trolls
have gone.
^
October 20th, 2008 at 8:57 pmOT, but Olberman’s special comment tonight is blistering.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:59 pmThurs and Friday, Obama will suspend his campaign to visit his sick grandmother in Hawaii.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:06 pmI pray for the JM hecklers to try to start with me. A signature beating will be in order.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:18 pm@Fan of Man
How dare you paint the Duke boys with the same brush you paint McCain supporters! ;)
October 20th, 2008 at 9:37 pmHow dare you vote early, we can’t intimidate you at the polls and turn you away on that 1 day
October 20th, 2008 at 9:40 pmok, buckie… i just wondered… have friends there…
October 20th, 2008 at 9:55 pmhwo is that even legal? are they a certain distance away from the actual polling station or something? I know it’s all too easy to just tee off, but what a disgraceful bunch.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:12 pmWho Lied Today? Says:
OT, but Olberman’s special comment tonight is blistering.
He said he’s probably going to be doing one, though not as long, every night until the election. Unless he starts doing them in the middle of the show, there won’t be very “happy tosses” to Rachel Maddow at 9 PM.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:19 pmI would have called the cops if I had been running that polling place. Technically they are outside the 100 foot limit, but they are actively harassing voters, which, at least in CA, is illegal. Don’t know the NC rules but would suspect they are similar.
So tired of this idiotic behavior. I wish McCain would stop “being proud” of these jerks and tell them to knock it off.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:33 pmIsn’t voter intimidation against the law in North Carolina?
October 20th, 2008 at 10:49 pmlivelong and prosper—Isn’t this kind of behavior illegal at a polling place? This is pure voter intimidation
It’s illegal unless they stay a certain distance, kind of like at the family planning clinics. Don’t count on Blinky or Winky saying anything about it or the police doing anything substantial either because if you hold your breath you will turn red (since you’re already true blue).
Yet they will harass me if I get my yard sign any closer to the polling place (my backyard touches the parking lot, obviously I live inside town) so isn’t that a bunch of poo? I made sure they can still see it prominently, though :) I’m gonna get my house egged this year, I can already tell. Ah well, it’s a small price to pay but I am keeping a close eye on my dogs, just in case.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:57 pmElections for Iraq!
For Americans foreclosures.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:07 pmSundays are for Church, not protests.
Goes both ways.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:33 pmSouthern Poverty LC hate map:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp
what didn’t happen: Fayetteville’s black hate/separatist chapter of the Nation of Islam harassing white voters.
I guess there are all crazy sorts of hate out there, whew!
October 21st, 2008 at 12:08 amif sundays are for church not voting, why weren’t their whire trash asses on their knees in church begging jeeebus for forgiveness?
October 21st, 2008 at 5:56 amI think this is illegal in most states, but I am not sure. There are laws in place about bars being open, how close you can be to a polling station, etc. Where were the police in these situations? Oh right, sorry, they were allowing anti Obama stuff because he’s a Negro..silly me. I forgot how white trash a nation I live in.
October 21st, 2008 at 6:35 ammuzz Says:
nice – real nice. I can’t wait to see what these scum are going to do when they realize that OBAMA IS THE PRESIDent OF ThE UNITED STATES !!!!!
I see mass suicides in the near future.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
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I’m more worried about homicides, frankly. These people are unhinged, bitter, racist, gun-toting whackos. I’m more than a bit afraid of what they’re going to do when Obama is President.
October 21st, 2008 at 8:21 amBostonian Queer in Dallas Says:
I think this is illegal in most states, but I am not sure. There are laws in place about bars being open, how close you can be to a polling station, etc.
October 21st, 2008 at 6:35 am
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I don’t know the law in Florida, but in Virginia it’s 40 feet. That’s definitely close enough to heckle.
October 21st, 2008 at 8:22 amThey also were complaining that Sundays are for Jim Crow, not voting.
October 21st, 2008 at 8:45 amSo, are these more “kind” Republicans? Hasn’t the Dixiecrat wing of the GOP realized that Jim Crow is dead and buried?
October 21st, 2008 at 8:48 amRemember a couple of years ago when the Voting Rights Act was about to expire and Republicans all said there was no point in renewing it because it was no longer needed?
October 21st, 2008 at 8:50 amClusterTim obviously didn’t read #1
October 21st, 2008 at 8:51 amI would vote McCain if the guy holding the socialism sign could properly explain socialism to me.
October 21st, 2008 at 8:59 amReminds me of the song Stevie Nicks sang on the Fleetwood Mac album “Rumours” – “Landslide.”
October 21st, 2008 at 9:07 amPersonally I can’t wait unrtil Subnday when I’ll go to the game (on Sunday) and tell the repugNUTs out there supporting McPimp to STFU! I LOVE Sundays!
October 21st, 2008 at 9:10 amI thought the Voting Rights Act prohibited anyone from interfering with exercise of your right to vote. Seems that heckling someone as they wait in line to vote should fall within that category. First comes heckling and mocking those who wish to vote. Then comes physical attacks. Then we’re back to the Deep South voter supression tactics of not so many years ago.
October 21st, 2008 at 9:13 amThe voting poll where I vote was once in the local rod and gun club. There was a target practice range directly across the street from the entrance to the poll and on election day, the terrorist Republicans would show up with BIG guns and spend the day shooting off these guns in an attempt to intimidate voters. It didn’t work. The voting poll has since been moved to another location.
October 21st, 2008 at 9:17 amThe Voting Rights Act makes the use of such tactics a federal crime. Before 1965, these thugs would just string up a couple of the darkys outside the polling place to send a message. Then the local judge would dismiss any charges that might be brought against the offenders.
October 21st, 2008 at 9:18 amThere is no early voting in Pennsylvania which means that there will be extremely long lines on November 4. Here’s hoping that no fights break out while people wait in line to vote. The Obama campaign is prepared to handle any problems.
October 21st, 2008 at 9:20 ammarkusmarkus Says:
Reminds me of the song Stevie Nicks sang on the Fleetwood Mac album “Rumours” – “Landslide.”
October 21st, 2008 at 9:07 am
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I believe that was on “Fleetwood Mac,” not “Rumors.” Though there was a cassette combining both albums that was released in the early 1980s. If you remember that, you’re old. :)
October 21st, 2008 at 11:18 amhussein toasterhead Says:
“I believe that was on “Fleetwood Mac,” not “Rumors.” Though there was a cassette combining both albums that was released in the early 1980s. If you remember that, you’re old. :)”
and if you remember the original Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green, then you’re really, really old!
Oh Well! :)
October 21st, 2008 at 11:51 amI just voted for obama! First time to vote in a presidential election and it felt great. Hopefully it actually counts.
October 21st, 2008 at 12:29 pmI’m in Columbia… McCain didn’t really do a good job of letting people know he would be here until the very last minute. Of course all he did was stop and eat some bbq.
When Joe Biden was here and the other time when his wife, Jill, came to town I got text messages at least a day ahead of time letting me know.
McCain is prolly all like… “whats a text message?” :)
October 21st, 2008 at 1:18 pmAs someone noted above, the location is a military town.
Should this make me wonder if any of the protestors were troops ?
October 21st, 2008 at 2:54 pmAs far as doing something about it, may I encourage everyone to contact the Tourism Bureau and Chamber of Commerce / Visitors Bureau to let them know how this forms your image of the state and the possibility that you would visit there ?
http://www.visitnc.com/
October 21st, 2008 at 3:08 pmThis is not exactly how the local paper reported this event. I am from this town. I have also contacted the state Attorney General’s Office. I will get a chance to see the Republican party chairman (Ralph Reagan) from Fayetteville tomorrow night at election headquarters. I will personally tell him how stupid he was to participate in and encourage this protest.
He made a statement in the paper that said early voters are uninformed voters. Thanks to Ralph Reagan I was only encouraged to go vote early!
Not everyone in this town is redneck, racist or a NASCAR fan. And actually I prefer a nice Merlot over a beer. But tomorrow night I have a nice bottle of champaign saved for a special occasion.
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