But they didn’t say anything about a chicken wearing a human suit!
Voters dressed in chicken costumes won’t be allowed inside Nevada polling places this year.
State election officials on Friday added chicken suits to the list of banned items after weeks of ridicule directed at Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden. The millionaire casino executive and former beauty queen recently suggested that people barter with doctors for medical care, like when “our grandparents would bring a chicken to the doctor.”
Democrats responded by setting up a website, “Chickens for Checkups,” and by sending volunteers in chicken suits to her campaign events.
Lowden is in a 12-way primary race to decide Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Republican opponent. She had been the front-runner in the race, but was in a virtual tie for the lead in a recent poll.
Under the new rule, chicken costumes will be banned along with political buttons, shirts, hats and signs within 100 feet of polling places. Washoe County Registrar of Voters Dan Burk said such a costume would be an “inappropriate and obvious” advocacy message against Lowden.
To paraphrase Glenn Beck:
First they came for the guys in chicken suits, but I wasn’t a chicken. Then they’ll exterminate them. It has the same end goal as Nazi eugenics.
100 feet? That’s not going to make any difference. 700 feet could be useful.
So…
Clucking like a chicken while you vote is okey dokey?
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What about going to vote dressed as Colonel Sanders.
“…that people barter with doctors for medical care, like when “our grandparents would bring a chicken to the doctor.” ”
So, with your insurance co-pay you only have to bring a leg and a wing.
Thank you. I’m here all weekend. Be sure to tip your waitress.
this picture of chicken is making me laugh, very funny.
I can see the reason for this ban. The polling place is for voting, not campaigning.
Come on! This is good political debate. GOP has to lighten up. Stupid politics has to accept irony. To ban people from wearing chicken suits – what century and dictatorship are you in!!!??? I am sad to see the US has lost its ideals. You behave more and more like East Germany. USSR is still a bit off…. Too many totalitarian principles being implemented.
It’s pretty pathetic when these “Tea Bagger” Republicans, can’t come up with a better candidate to run against the democrats, than some other clueless, out of touch, Sarah Palin wannabe. Former beauty queens and casino millionare? Why stop there? Recruit the mafia to run for office. AGAIN! I’m sure all the Republicans were satisfied when the career criminals were running things. They left the rich and pampered alone. They knew better.