Woman Ticketed For Anti-GOP Bumpersticker (Campaigning Illegally) WTF?

[matcom]

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- A Kansas woman said she was ticketed for having political bumper stickers on her car.

On Wednesday, Sara Keiser was cited in connection with campaigning illegally because she parked her car at Metcalf South Mall, which is a polling place during elections.

The law states that no one can campaign within 250 feet of a polling place.

Keiser said she wasn't at the mall to vote or to campaign. She was there to go to work.

"I work here. My office is upstairs. I'm here every single day," Keiser said.

She said someone going to the mall to vote noticed her car parked out front and called police.

"They contacted all kinds of people in Kansas government about what to do. Apparently at one point, they were thinking about towing my car," Keiser said.

The car wasn't towed, but an officer wrote her a ticket.

"The officer seemed as confused as I did and a little uncomfortable," she said. "(The ticket) stated that my car is a campaign vehicle, which obviously took me aback."

She said she prefers to park close to the front doors of the mall, but now she must park around the corner and out of sight of the polling place.

Keiser didn't receive a monetary fine, but she must report to court in November.

http://www.wftv.com/politics/10173251/detail.html

[NewWaveChick1981]

1. That's a total stretch and is utterly ridiculous.

:grr: And why is a mall a polling place anyway? And how many other cars with political bumperstickers had parked in the same area she did during that time??? :grr: I'll bet if there had been a pro-Repuke sticker and/or anti-Dem sticker, nobody would have complained at all.

So does that mean when I see cars parked in front of churches that are used as polling places that any and all cars with Repuke stickers on them are also in violation of the "no campaigning" law and will definitely receive tickets too????

[Kerrytravelers]

2. If these are the new rules, I'm turning repukes in!

:woohoo:

[DrDan]

3. this is Overland Park

I used to work there

what a bunch of cretins

[johnnie]

4. I should have opened my mouth in 2004

At my polling place a fireman had a tee shirt that said "Firemen for Bush" or something like that and I just blew it off. I guess I should have made a scene.

[Lowell]

5. Don't forget to vote the poll while you're over there

right now about 88 percent say the law is stupid.

[Robb]

6. I think it's a fine law

Just applied rather poorly here.