WHAT??!! A Vacation T-Shirt Causes Flap at Polls.

[Blue_In_AK]

This is beyond ridiculous...

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/cyfair/news/6093076.html

Ginger Hurley could not have picked Sarah Palin out of a sea of hockey moms when she vacationed in Alaska this June.

For 10 days, Hurley fished and kayaked. She took a "flightseeing" excursion over Mount McKinley and a harbor cruise around the glaciers. She even picked up a few T-shirts. She did not visit the governor's mansion.

But by October, the association between the state and its governor, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, was so strong it nearly kept Hurley out of the voting booth.

The 40-year-old Houston Realtor was wearing one of her souvenir T-shirts when she went to cast her ballot at a Cypress polling place Oct. 26. A poll worker told her she would have to change the shirt if she wanted to vote.

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What, she asked, was wrong with her light blue cotton T-shirt, emblazoned with a moose head, fishing poles, and the words "Seward, Alaska"?

The word "Alaska," a poll worker answered.

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"I felt like I was being singled out," she said. "I don't think they would have given it a second look if it were a Delaware T-shirt."

[liberalhistorian]

1. That is, indeed, really,

really dumb, stupid and ridiculous. And going waaaayyy too far and way over the line.

[jobycom]

2. Maybe she thought the moosehead was a picture of Cheney?

No,wait, that would be the moose's butt...

[Dennis Donovan]

3. They had a similar problem with the same shirt...

...in the 1834 NY Governor's race.:D

[shireen]

4. people were wearing Obama t-shirts at my polling place

no one complained.

[bunkerbuster1]

5. Yep, purty dumb!

Fair point about a Delaware T-shirt.

[Richard Steele]

6. They thought it said "Sewer", which would be a clear reference to Sarah Palin.

Easy mistake.