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NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates Obama

Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:13 pm
by ChopperDoc
NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates for President Obama

Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall

Nov 03, 2012 05:46 PM EST


HOUSTON, TX - Friday afternoon at an early polling place located at 6719 W. Montgomery Road in Houston, NAACP members were seen advocating for President Barack Obama according to volunteer poll watchers on location at the time.

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. Their behavior and actions to move people to the front of the line continued for the rest of the evening. Texas State Representative Sylvester Turner, a former Texas NAACP leader, was also seen outside the building talking with voters.

“The NAACP basically ran this poll location and the judges did nothing about it,” Rockford said.

Re: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates Obam

Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:16 pm
by scorpionmain
SMH

NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates Obama

Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:38 pm
by o3rugby1
Proabably at a KFC

Re: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates Obam

Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:42 pm
by Tyler
o3rugby1 wrote:Proabably at a KFC

take your bullshit elsewhere

Re: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates Obam

Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:48 pm
by etownguy
NAACP
N****** Against All Caucasian People

NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates Obama

Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:50 pm
by o3rugby1
Sorry to offend u

NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates Obama

Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:50 pm
by o3rugby1
I have a huge problem with the NAACP running polling stations.

NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates Obama

Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:50 pm
by o3rugby1
Sorry for the tripple post only hit it once.

Re: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates Obam

Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 11:00 pm
by etownguy
nice triple post...

And I would like to add I have zero issue with the color of a persons skin what so ever, what I have a issue with is the attitude and actions that person makes. NAACP has had a long history of hating anyone non-black they are one of the worse racist groups in existence.

Re: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates Obam

Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 11:09 pm
by jackalo626
NAACP is by definition practicing racism by only helping people based on skin color. I was segregated in school from the athletes I hung out with by a program called "men of quality". Nothing like having 5 classes together with multiple black guys and then being split up solely based on color. Not a fan of govt funded segragation organizations.

Re: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates Obam

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 5:40 pm
by Toddstang
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NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates Obama

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 7:31 pm
by o3rugby1
And frisbee golf

Re: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates Obam

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 9:24 pm
by inthewaterky
And boating