"No judge of election, pollwatcher, or other person shall, at any primary or election, do any electioneering or soliciting of votes or engage in any political discussion within any polling place [or] within 100 feet of any polling place." A top Ilinois State Board of Elections official tells the DRUDGE REPORT that Mrs. Obama -- a Harvard-educated lawyer -- may have simply been ignorant of the law and thus violated it unintentionally. "You kind of have to drop the standard for the first lady, right?" the official explained late Thursday. "I mean, she's pretty well liked and probably doesn't know what she's doing."
The White House's only comment was issued by press secretary Robert Gibbs
"I don't think it would be much to imagine, the First Lady might support her husband's agenda," Gibbs smiled.So, not only do we have a cabinet full of tax scofflaws, but a First Lady who will ignore state law when it suits her purpose.
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Elected officials of the federal government have always seemed to have the misguided notion that if you are a member of the federal government, or the spouse of a member of the federal government, that the laws that apply to mere mortal rank and file citizens do not apply to them. As a matter of recorded fact the Congress and Senate, now, have the audacity to include such language in their proposals.
I shouldn't be surprised but I am. The "ruling elite" generally get very angry when laws are equitably enforced (in other words they get prosecuted "unfairly"). After all, what would have happened to your or I?
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