You just can't make this up.

[Marcus Bryant]

This just about says it all...

http://www.nbc5i.com/politics/3882943/detail.html

GOP Complains About School Voting Over Alleged Ice Cream Bribe
School Administrator Denies Any Wrongdoing

POSTED: 10:41 am CST November 2, 2004
UPDATED: 10:48 am CST November 2, 2004

LUFKIN, Texas -- Lufkin-area Republicans are complaining about voting by residents from the local state school for the mentally disabled.

The Lufkin Daily News reports the Angelina County GOP headquarters was told that Lufkin State School employees bribed students with ice cream. They also alleged improper use of a state van to take students to the poll for early voting.

County Republican Chairman Dale Ingle alleges the school was trying to boost Democratic efforts to fight the possible closing of the school.

But school administrator Randy Spence denies any wrongdoing. He says being a state school resident doesn't bar the resident from voting. The federally funded organization Advocacy Incorporated says Texans lose the right to vote only if a judge declares them mentally incompetent.

Spence says nearly 30 school residents are registered to vote, but only six had been to early voting. He says five others signed up to vote during regular voting today.

Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[NeoConIV]

Didn't realize desperation could be squared. Huh.

[boutons]

How are ins utionalized, mentally disabled people supposed to get the polls other than in supervised transportation provided by the ins ution?

Being ins utionalized for mental problems doesn't mean all of the inmates are totally incapable mentally or legally "mentally incompetent".

The big picture is that the Lufkin Repugs are ing about 30 max votes, 11 probable, in a state whose electoral votes have been universally ceded to shrub for months?? Sounds like the pet ness and meanness (and yes bullying intimimdation) that typifies Repug operatives in general.

[Marcus Bryant]

You're right. The GOP shouldn't attempt to question the efforts of the Demos to bribe their own base to vote.

[Hook Dem]

How are ins utionalized, mentally disabled people supposed to get the polls other than in supervised transportation provided by the ins ution?

Being ins utionalized for mental problems doesn't mean all of the inmates are totally incapable mentally or legally "mentally incompetent".

The big picture is that the Lufkin Repugs are ing about 30 max votes, 11 probable, in a state whose electoral votes have been universally ceded to shrub for months?? Sounds like the pet ness and meanness (and yes bullying intimimdation) that typifies Repug operatives in general.

Have an ice cream and "chill".

[gophergeorge]

Which reminds me...

A penguin's car breaks down in Arizona... He has it towed to a garage. The mechanic tells him it will be about an hour... Penguin sees an ice cream shop across the street and decides that would be a cool place to hang out.

He eats a soft serve ice cream cone while he is there...

Hour later, he walks back to the shop... Mechanic looks up from under the car and says... "Looks like you blew a seal." Oh, no. That's just ice cream...