REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE WANTS HOLDER TO MONITOR VOTER INTIMIDATION

U.S. Rep. from Texas, Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston) is apparently trying to leverage two things in her favor while reaching out to Attorney General Eric Holder - she's black and she's a Democrat. Perhaps she was further emboldened by how the New Black Panther Party case of voter intimidation was handled by Holder's department. Lee is calling on Holder to send people to her district to monitor what she is calling instances of voter intimidation. I'm not making this up.

Via POLITICO:

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) is asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether tea party groups are intimidating black and Hispanic voters in her district.

Jackson Lee has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to send poll monitors to her district on Nov. 2 to make sure the King Street Patriots, a local conservative voter turnout and tea party group, aren’t stopping people from voting.

“Many of these incidents of voter intimidation have been occurring in predominately minority neighborhoods and have been directed at African-Americans and Latinos,” she said in the letter. “It is unconscionable to think that anyone would deliberately employ the use of such forceful and intimidating tactics in 2010 to undermine the fundamental, constitutional right to vote.”

The Politico article goes on to say that the King Street Patriots are openly welcoming such visits. In fact, in light of what was revealed last week, Lee may be overplaying her hand as there are written accounts from poll watchers in her district that she herself was electioneering at voting booths in her district.

Via Liberty Pundits:

Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Houston) violated election laws when, on Tuesday, October 19 [corrected: date was wrongly noted as the 18th], she entered into Acres Home Multiservice Community Center, walked to where the voting booths were looking for the poll watchers, greeted voters there, and then found and confronted the poll watchers before being directed to, and then asked by, the presiding judge Bernard Gurski to leave the area.

Let's get this straight. An elected official is electioneering at polling stations within her district, is asked to leave for violating the law, and then that same elected official complains to the U.S. Attorney General that voter intimidation is taking place.

Huh? It gets better. Lee apparently tried to confront the alleged voter intimidation first hand while electioneering illegally at the polling station:

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.

Perhaps we are witnessing some unintended consequences for the leadership of the Justice Department after they so egregiously dropped voter intimidation charges against the Black Panthers. A U.S. Representative allegedly breaks election laws and is attempting to intimidate those who upheld those laws through the U.S. Department of Justice.

We're about to see if Eric Holder has any limit at all to how low he'll go.

h/t tot Gateway Pundit

VIDEO: TAMIKA TURNED AWAY FROM POLLS FOR OBAMA SHIRT

Tamika Francis attempted to participate in early voting at a Fiesta grocery store in Houston and was turned away because she had a Barack Obama t-shirt on. She was told it either goes inside out or goes away. She didn't accept it and called local television news reporters from KHOU out to have her story told. Tamika obviously stuck around until they showed up. I'm not saying she DID call them but odds are good.

She then attempts to make the argument that because Obama is not in the election, she should be allowed to wear the shirt. Uh, not so much. Indignant, Tamika demanded that the Harris County Clerk show her the law that prohibits such a thing. Hector de Leon obliged by citing Texas Election code 85.036, which says:

“...during the time of an early voting polling place is open for the conduct of early voting, a person may not electioneer for or against any candidate, measure, or political party in or within 100 feet of an outside door through which a voter may enter the building or structure in which the early voting polling place is located.”

Tamika was at the Fiesta store with her mother. Did it seem like the camera was focusing on the mother's walking cane or is that just me?

Via KHOU:



h/t Gateway Pundit

HOUSTON: WIFE OF OIL EXECUTIVE A BOMBING VICTIM

This story, though tragic, is made potentially far more important in light of the public anger at Big Oil that has been fueled and exacerbated by the Obama administration; the BP oil spill response, though totally bungled and encumbered by the White House, has also served to inflame tensions. It is not yet known if the package containing a bomb - left at the door of a home owned by an oil executive and his wife - was placed there because of the oil connection.

The potential exists but is not confirmed and it should not be assumed that's what happened until a suspect is identified.

That said, an updated report from KTRK provides a bit more information, saying that the bomb consisted of tacks, nails, and batteries. It sounds reminiscent of the kind the Weather Underground would make. It will be interesting, to say the least, if this turns out to be a leftwing lunatic who specifically targeted the wife of an Oil Executive. If that ends up being what happened, it will be interesting to see how it's handled. Hopefully, not like the case of Kenneth Gladney or the Black Panthers was dealt with. The woman was targeted because the box had her name on it. The only question now is, why?

Via KTRK in Houston:



Here is an updated report from KTRK

VIDEO: MAN ARRESTED FOR POSTING OBAMA JOKER POSTERS

Folks, welcome to the slippery slope. If you post a poster of Obama as the Joker (like the one below), you might be arrested if you do it in Houston. I don't know what Houston law is but this definitely seems a bit extreme.

Perhaps you're only allowed to post Obama posters approved by the NEA in Houston?




























h/t to GATEWAY PUNDIT