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ffr

(22,669 posts)
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 01:57 PM Oct 2016

Your crazy uncle was arrested in Texas today while electioneering for Donald.

If you only recognized the fact that he is somewhat crazy and delusional, you should also recognize he was attempting to vote against everything you stand for. He hates deeply. It's not an extension to think he hates everything that you stand for.

He wore a Trump hat and ‘deplorables’ shirt to vote. Texas police arrested him. - WaPo


Silence his hatred this election. VOTE!

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Your crazy uncle was arrested in Texas today while electioneering for Donald. (Original Post) ffr Oct 2016 OP
That's him! misterhighwasted Oct 2016 #1
Yes, that happened Monday, not too far from me. Avalux Oct 2016 #2
The courts will determine if they "knew the law" or not. n/t PoliticAverse Oct 2016 #6
Its safe to wear your Dean hat now though Skink Oct 2016 #3
Baby blue pantsuits too. ffr Oct 2016 #4
He missed the Oathkeeper directive to wear a Che Guevara t-shirt... VOX Oct 2016 #5

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
1. That's him!
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 02:01 PM
Oct 2016
Brett Bartlett Mauthe arrived at his Texas polling place Monday morning ready to vote.

It was the first day of early voting in Bulverde, a tiny town 30 minutes north of San Antonio.

On his head he wore a hat supporting GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, Mauthe told KSAT 12 News. His T-shirt read “basket of deplorables,” a reference to a comment Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton made about Trump’s supporters.

Mauthe was stopped before he could cast his ballot.

According to the election code, not just in Texas but in many other jurisdictions across the country, campaigning for or promoting a political candidate within a designated space around a polling place is prohibited. In Comal County, that’s 100 feet. The crime is electioneering, reported the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung, a class C misdemeanor.

Mauthe was asked by poll workers to remove the Trump hat, and he complied, the man told KSAT 12 News. But when they asked him to turn his “deplorables” T-shirt inside out, he refused.

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Avalux

(35,015 posts)
2. Yes, that happened Monday, not too far from me.
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 02:04 PM
Oct 2016

Thankfully the people in charge at the poll knew the law and did the right thing, whether they agreed with him or not.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
5. He missed the Oathkeeper directive to wear a Che Guevara t-shirt...
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 02:28 PM
Oct 2016

or a nice Bob Marley crew-neck, you know, to better blend in with the crowd.

Easier to herd cats than to direct deep-dish loons.

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