Wis. candidate can't use controversial description..........Wow I wonder why!!

• Fab1b

  

  Well jees I freaking wonder why???? I normally don't even post in the Politics, let alone start a thread but come on really?
  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100722/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_ballot_expletive
  

  MADISON, Wis. – A legislative candidate from Wisconsin can't use a profane, racially charged phrase to describe herself on the ballot, an election oversight board decided Wednesday.
  
  Ieshuh Griffin, an independent running for a downtown Milwaukee seat in the state Assembly, wants to use the phrase, "NOT the 'whiteman's b----.'"
  
  But the state's Government Accountability Board voted to bar that wording, agreeing with a staff recommendation that it is pejorative and therefore not allowed.

  "NOT the 'whiteman's bitch" How did that even have to go to a board to decide? Imagine if that was the other way around what would happen to that candidate!!
• iclfan2

  

  Ha what an idiot.
• Jason Bourne

  

  I think the ACLU should step in. This is a OBVIOUS assualt on his 1st Amendment Right of free speech. I mean, if Rick Glen Strandlof can proclaim himself as a war hero, and get backed by the ACLU, this case should be a slam dunk!!!
• isadore

  She had the majority of the board for her. They board voted 3-2 to let her put that label on the ballot. But she needed 4 votes
• Fab1b

  

  isadore;430215 wrote:She had the majority of the board for her. They board voted 3-2 to let her put that label on the ballot. But she needed 4 votes

  
  I know and that blows my mind even further!!
• Jason Bourne

  

  Fab1b;430232 wrote:I know and that blows my mind even further!!

  
  That's because you are a racist! And, this is George Bush's fault. Somehow.
• Mr. 300

  

  Wow
• Fab1b

  

  Jason Bourne;430236 wrote:That's because you are a racist! And, this is George Bush's fault. Somehow.

  
  Damn figured me out
• Jason Bourne

  

  Any other typical slogans I can throw out there to pin you down, sir?
• Fab1b

  

  Other than being a bald asshole nope
• CenterBHSFan

  

  Jason Bourne;430271 wrote:Any other typical slogans I can throw out there to pin you down, sir?

  Honkie?
  
  Cracker?
  
  White Bread?
• CenterBHSFan

  

  Wonder if the NAACP will go after Ty Bowman?
  
  [video=youtube;v1ZBq1p6mOA][/video]
  
  Should there be a White House apology for this?
  
  What about special legislation?
• believer

  

  CenterBHSFan;430872 wrote:Wonder if the NAACP will go after Ty Bowman?

  NAW....The ACLU won't let 'em.