This is not only outrageous because it is a blatant violation of the law, it’s the attitude of the NAACP canvassers that makes this incident an affront to democracy.
According to Eve Rockford, a poll watcher trained by voter integrity group True the Vote, three NAACP members showed up to the 139 precinct location with 50 cases of bottled water and began handing bottles out to people standing in line. While wearing NAACP labeled clothing, members were “stirring the crowd” and talking to voters about flying to Ohio to promote President Barack Obama.
After watching what was occurring, Rockford approached Polling Supervisor Rose Cochran about what she was seeing.
“I went to the polling supervisor and let her know that it was not appropriate that they were in the building handing out water. She ignored me. I repeated my statement. She told me that she would handle it. She did nothing. I then went to the assistant supervisor and he stood up, walked over to another table and then sat down. I then walked into the waiting room and they were reloading another dolly with more cases of water,” Rockford said in a True the Vote incident report.
After handing out water and advocating for President Obama, the NAACP members started handpicking and moving people to the front of a long voting line inside the polling place according to the incident report. After multiple complaints from voters about the line cutting, Rockford received a phone call from downtown telling her to “stand down.”
“All of the sudden one of the clerks, Dayan Cohen, said that someone wanted to speak to me on the phone. It was someone from downtown. I got on the phone and she said she was from downtown and that I needed to stand down and that it was okay for the NAACP to be within 100 ft. and they could hand out water. I told her that the NAACP was inside the building, wearing the NAACP clothing and caps and were handing out water and moving people from the back of the lines to the front of the lines,” Rockford said.
At this point, NAACP members were instructed to turn their clothing inside out, which they refused to do and said they weren’t going to stop their actions inside the polling place.
The attitude of the poll workers and polling officials is unbelievable. Talk about the “integrity of the vote!”
The actions of the NAACP representatives make us look like a banana republic.
With every passing day the NAACP verges closer and closer to being nothing more than a racist hate group. What a sad end for an organization which once had such noble goals.
the Trinity Church will take over soon
Closer? They’re there.
– is being done about it? We don’t want violence!
Simply ridiculous.
For something that happened on Friday, I have my doubts as I only see it on blogs. I would expect some news coverage somewhere, but it looks like it’s just reblogging.
Yeah, I’m sure Chris Matthews will be leaping at this.
pissing in his pants,
he’s soiling his diapers besides
Well, if one is not smart enough to debate with real arguments, what’s left except insults and poll station manipulators … They should have been handing out Kool-Aid …
Are black citizens able to stand on their own two feet, or are they perpetual children unable to do much of anything intelligent without some “organizer” from a group like the NAACP there to help them?
If it is the second, why are they telling the rest of us how messed up we are?
Basically, at the end of the day I find it hard to not conclude that large portions of the black community that so many care about are communities unable or unwilling to act within rules expected of everyone else. That they, in fact, are just low class, demanding compliance from others but never complying themselves.
And considering that I am living in an area full of the new black middle class, really nice folks one generation removed from lower middle and working class, my guess is that I am not the only one not exactly enthusiastic about being dictated to by folks of middling talent (at best) who demand group solidarity and who take any reproof as some sin on your part, not error on theirs.
This supposedly happened at an early voting place in a heavily African American community. Also, the Houston Police Department has a substation in the same building complex. I seems to reason that if something like this actually happened, it would have been easy to get someone from HPD there in a matter of seconds. And is this “someone from downtown” that supposedly called? The office of true the vote aren’t downtown — they’re off Loop 610.
Completely fishy this story is.
It would make sense for the “downtown office” to be the city or county registrar. Because, despite liberal scare-mongering, “True the Vote” runs nothing, and has no authority. Registrars do, though. As for the police station–if the head of the polling location is not going to make a complaint, the poll watcher probably had no legal authority the cops were going to respect/listen to. Chains of command, and all.
Thanks for trying. We have some lovely consolation prizes for you.
The Harris County Voter Registrar is a self-proclaimed Tea Party person. Why would he or anyone in his office tell the true the vote person to stand down? How would they know that anything was happening? Why couldn’t the true the vote person go down to the police station and complain?
Also, there is nothing at all about this on any of the local blogs. true the vote only has links to townhall and brietbart on it’s website — no orginal reporting.
Why might that be, Anony?
It is entirely reasonable to postulate the following:
1) As has been proven time and time again in the federal bureaucracy, just because the head of an agency is of the non-Democratic persuasion does not mean that political mindset holds sway monolithically through the agency. Or that it holds sway at all, anywhere. It is a common enough phenomena, so no arguments over the subject.
After all, it was official state of Ohio policy that record searches and record releases be done for official purposes only. That still did not prevent the problem “Joe the Plumber” had, because someone made their own judgment call, despite policy from higher authority.
2) Benghazi happened, and the “original reporting” on that has been lacking. Absence of proof cannot be used as definitive proof of absence, especially if you are using lack of “journalistic” coverage as your standard. There is a story. It can be proved or disproved. You have done neither, and since the second was your goal, keep spinning. Someone might believe you.
3) As far as the cops–once again, by the story, a legal authority has told her to “stand down” (a popular thing for Democrats to tell people these days, it seems). The poll watcher in question will not get very far with the cops, as both local and central authority have said there was no issue, and we can presume that would stop action cold (esp. As we can logically speculate that the cops will defer, not being experts on election law). Thus the cops would not act–or it is at least a reasonable assumption.
This story to be still has all hallmarks of being true, or of potentially being true. You, of course, may continue to spin away, because we all understand the damaging nature of this.
Have a nice day.
Actually, in Harris County, the County Clerk runs the elections. And yet there is nothing in this article from townhall that it was either the county clerk or the registrar or any of either’s employees who was on the phone call. You seem to be filling in a lot of blanks with information from memory from other places and not anything about this early polling place or the local authorities responsible for it. You don’t know that it was a legal authority that called — you added that in on your own.
The townhall article claims this imformation is from a true the vote incident report. That is an online form if you look at their website. Why doesn’t the organization that the incident report originated from have it available online? Why didn’t the townhall article link to it?
Although there has been response as I write, I offer this as a coup de grace to at least one of the arguments above–the lack of police action.
If this is to be the standard, then I would say that 99% of the voter disenfranchisements of the Jim Crow South never happened, and the Civil Rights Act was unnecessary, because if those affected by local or central poll workers not following the law had just gone to the cops….
In repsonse to Clayton’s of 2:50–we wishes to attack on lack of detailed specifics now, even though his original argument said there was no way it could be true, because True the Vote’s offices were not “downtown”. That was his brilliant Sherlock Holmes deduction, and now he wants to try to impeach someone else on “filling in blanks”.
“he wishes”, not “we wishes”. Too Gollum-ish.
Success! You all finally got the woman involved on tv. Yeas Eve was on the local news tonight.
You win. Let’s hear the celebration!
This seems like a perfect example of something that could have been proven easily via video, like the video of the New Black Panther intimidating voters in Philadephia in 2008. A video like that would likely go viral, at least outside of the MSM. Even if Holder’s DoJ would have done absolutely nothing about it, that video would have helped energize Romney voters in numbers that would have far exceeded whatever advantage the NAACP activists obtained from their flagrant illegality.
It would sure be interesting to know who called from downtown to tell everyone, even the True the Vote representative, to stand down.
This case screams out for criminal charges.
and so they follow His example.
who sez the blacks can’t learn?
What does it matter? All those naacp black folks are going to vote for Obama anyway. All that happened was that some black folks got some free water. No big deal.
Harris Cty has always been bluer than blue, but the rest of Houston will vote Red and cancel the Dems without question. The same holds true for a small sections of Dallas/Ft Worth and of course Austin is very liberal, but overall, TX is a Red State.
I predict Romney will carry Texas.
NAACP = Neolib Assortment (of) Antagonizing Collectivist Proles. — Hope they lose, lose BIG!
Hey, we’re those UN election monitors? Turning a blind eye, of course.
Celebration time, come on!