Determined Texas Woman, 92, Votes in Ambulance (Straight Dem Ticket)

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

Determined Texas Woman, 92, Votes in Ambulance

Tue Nov 4, 4:22 pm ET

SAN ANTONIO – Betty Owen is 92 and after a stroke four years ago, needs a feeding tube and can't walk. But she was determined not to miss Tuesday's election. She arrived at her polling place on a gurney in an ambulance, where an election judge and support worker climbed aboard with an electronic voting machine and let her cast her ballot.

"And you have voted," precinct judge Sam Green said after Owen pushed the red button finalizing her choices. "You know, you look so pretty in that red dress."
Owen grinned, the San Antonio Express-News reported in Tuesday's online edition.

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Owen, a Marine Corps veteran who served in World War II, cast her first ballot for Wendell Willkie, a Republican running against Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. She became a Democrat after voting for John Kennedy in 1960. She cast a straight Democratic ballot Tuesday.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081104/ap_on_fe_st/odd_vote_in_ambulance

[sakabatou]

1. Well, whoever she votes for

I applaud her efforts.

[ThatsMyBarack]

2. WOW!!!!!!!

Is there anything people WON'T do to elect Obama president? :patriot:

[avebury]

3. BRAVO !!

[Tempest]

4. All kinds of uplifting stories coming out about this election

And they're all about Obama.

[Soylent Brice]

5. WAY TO GO BETTY!!!

FUCK YEAH!!!!!

[ACTION BASTARD]

6. Makes this Marine proud! Semper Fi!

This is what God & a few good Marines produce on Paris Island. Hard FUCKING Core!

[tblue37]

7. I posted this story a few hours ago, but it dropped like a stone.

I thought it was so uplifting that people would love to see it. I was wrong, I guess.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7758352&mesg_id=7758352

[boilerbabe]

11. You weren't wrong--it's a great story!!! n/t

[northofdenali]

8. OK, Hissy, you made me a liar in my post on your gift vid -

You got the only TWO tonight! What a story! What a woman! What a HELL of a Democrat! :thumbsup:

[Hawkeye-X]

9. Are you still bald, Hissyspit?

Want to borrow my laptop?

[silverojo]

10. That spunk reminds me of my own aunt Betty

In 2006 she literally voted against Arizona's J.D. Worthless from her hospice bed. Had she lived, she'd be voting for Obama, whatever it took.

Betty Owens is a true American hero! :patriot:

[awoke_in_2003]

12. K&R. nt

[alittlelark]

13. She had to vote on an ELECTRONIC MACHINE?

Sad.

Really, that is sad.


But KUDOS to her for demanding her vote!!!!

O8) :party: :dem: :yourock: