No, No, Wait. Deplorable Is His Name.
So a guy in New Braunfels, Texas, got in trouble for trying to vote while wearing a Donald Trump hat and a Deplorable tee-shirt.
He refused to turn his shirt inside out before voting.
Mauthe was asked by poll workers to remove the Trump hat, and he complied, the man told KSAT 12 News. But when they asked him to turn his “deplorables” T-shirt inside out, he refused.
“He wanted to take a stand,” Bulverde Police Chief Gary Haecker told the Herald-Zeitung. “Unfortunately, he was arrested.”
Chief Haecker made it real clear where he stood on this issue.
“I went up there and talked to him. I told him, ‘I support you and I appreciate what you’re doing. It’s your right, but you’re going about it the wrong way here.’ The election code has very specific rules,” Haecker told the Herald-Zeitung. “These are the rules and you have to abide by the rules.”
Mauthe gave up his hat but stood firm on his tee-shirt. He was booked into jail and paid his $700. bond.
Did they do a field sobriety test?
Thanks to Paul for the heads up.
That’s because he couldn’t take off his shirt it was so encrusted with gunk because he hadn’t changed or bathed since he bought it.
1Also, they caught some Iowa republicans committing voter fraud, the kind they always accuse democrats of doing: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/trump-supporter-arrested-for-vote-fraud-claims-polls-ar-1788361492.
2That is one weird photo. I hope his blood pressure isn’t that high. He looks like he might explode and splatter any minute.
3Yes, that would be tragic.
4Fat fokker looks exactly as I expected as I scrolled down the page.
Undoubtedly his Teabagger cred and bragging rights have skyrocketed since this detention. ‘Cause Obummer, yadayada.
PS: Fail to see any New Braunfels connection here, Bulverde is ’bout twenty miles west on Hwy 46 from New Braunfels…similar places in some respects though, politically for sure, now.
Cannot see how (my) German Freethinker ancestors could devolve into this deploramiserable condition in many respects. Something poisonous got into the Edwards Aquifer-Guadalupe-Comal-Blanco-Pedenales Rivers?
5AKLynne,
6Yep, that is the posterboy hyperhypertensive face of STOOOPIDD, modern Repuke version…
Soon to be an ER guest, if the EMT vehicle isn’t stuck in traffic on Hwy 46 or 281…that would be a real pity, no?
$700 over a $4.95 hat and a 9.98 T Shirt? Boy, this guy is a real genius!
7Maggie – I’m sure he paid a lot more or them. Vendors be fleecing the rubes, dontcha know.
8Explode and spatter…. I refuse to clean up a republican mess.
9No clean up here. I don’t have sufficient disinfectant. Or paper towels. And I live too far from a toxic waste disposal site.
10“You ain’t the boss of me!”
And it’s so simple. If you want to vote with your Trump or Clinton or any other shirt on, qualify to vote by mail. For those underage for the age requirement and you look like this, I suggest biting down on the foot in your mouth and having to have your foot amputated as a result because your mouth’s got more poison in it than a whole den of rattlers. Or shoot yourself in the leg being careless with one of the Ghu-knows-howmany guns you have. Then you can sit at home with your Trump T-shirt on, your Trump hat on, your TV blaring FoxNonews, your Confederate flag or Tea-bagger flag pinned to the wall, big ol’ Colt .45 in your lap where you can fondle it, smoking a cigar and sucking down a six pack and yelling “Feminazis, take this! and “Libtards take that” every time you mark the ballot. You can have a high old time that way, and no election judge will bother you.
So simple. So easy. But you? You turned red and stuck the other foot in your Mauthe.
11@Old Quaker … Lord knows we’ve had to clean up enough of their messes and too many did include explode and splatter!!
12Explode and splatter is too gross to visualize, but it’s really funny. On the other hand the visual Elizabeth presented is all too likely while not being quite as repulsive. Either way, is pure crazy wingnut to the boner.
13(See what I did there on that last word?)
When I first read this post, I was bothered because of my free speech beliefs. But then I remembered that the rules are there to prevent overt advertising for a candidate or party IN THE POLLING PLACE.
Seems like an easy rule to follow and I understand its purpose. And then I remembered that some people are complete and utter asshats. So I feel better now. Carry on.
14Sandridge says: Cannot see how (my) German Freethinker ancestors could devolve into this…
Jane Jacobs spoke to this phenomenon:
“Higgins (a town in N.C) had not always been backwards. In the early 1700s, as Jacobs noted in Cities and the Wealth of Nations, its founders, three English brothers named Higgins and their families, possessed a wide range of knowledge and skills. By the 1920s, the brothers’ descendants had lost nearly all of (their skills), apart from making molasses.
Jacobs felt some of the causes were corruption, tyranny, homogenization, cultural drift and atrophy.
15http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/the-prophecies-of-jane-jacobs/501104/
@Sandridge
16Bulverde is in Comal County. New Braunfels is the county seat of Comal County. After he was arrested PD Bulverde transported Mr Mauth to the Comal County Jail where he posted a $500 cash bond after being charged with “ELECTIONEERING AND LOITERING NEAR POLLING PLACE”.
forget the sobriety test. make him take the field stupidity test.
17Wonder if the Trump campaign will reimburse him?
Elizabeth Moon – problem is, none of that stuff’s nearly as much fun if you’re not doing it in public, proving to all and sundry what a Real Amurrkin you are. Your wife shakes her head and heads out the door to Walmart, the dog whimpers in his sleep and rolls over: it’s like you’re not really accomplishing anything important, ya know?
18Micr, Thanks for the clarification, I don’t usually follow any ‘media’ type links (that msn one, KSAT ch12, etc) because of all the webpage crap they feed your browser.
I know NB and Bul very well, NB is one of my many ‘hometowns’. I know Comal and Hays, Blanco, etc., counties well. The fam and I still visit up there, have to get a Naegelins Bakery and Granzin BBQ fix periodically…and various other things to do.
Didn’t you have a place there?
Nevertheless, the lede in is very misleading (to me anyway). Dumazz didn’t do anything in New Braunfels, he committed the crime in Bulverde, a completely different town some distance away. The BPD could have taken him anywhere (strange they don’t have a local hoosegow, or a JP?), still Bulv is where the action was.
19Bad press for New Braunfels at the least, dumazz must not even live around there if he’s attempting to vote in Bulverde.
“So a guy in New Braunfels, Texas, got in trouble…”
@Sandridge
I’m assuming the electioneering offense was a class B misdemeanor so PD Bulverde had to ship him to the County Jail so he could be arraigned and post his bond. I suspect PD Bulverde has a lock-up and not a jail.
Yeah we have several connections to greater SA as well. There’s a grandboy growing up too fast in SA, my father-in-law owned a week-end place in NB on Mather St where we spent a lot of down time in the late 70s and early 80s, and I have a financial interest with some cousins in 1200ish acres running 600ish Beefmaster cow-calf pairs near Carrizo Springs.
We try to stop in Marble Falls for pie and some times at the Czech Stop and at a couple places in Hico when we go 281 as opposed to the hell that is IH35.
20@Sandridge
Oh and for pastries at the Exxon on US67 and Barnard in Glen Rose 🙂
21Micr, There ain’t no better baked goods in TX than Naegelins…
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Rick, I wuz jes writing rhetorically. I know how they have been brainwashed the last 40-50 years, all across the board. The slimy Repukes are very slick and the average bear just doesn’t pay attention too well. Molasses, hell, I’ll bet those Higgins were down to making mostly shine…
Hooo, boy! Just look at him. I was at the Safeway today packing my groceries into the car when in the side door of the store strides – and I do mean strides – this guy’s brother who was separated from him at birth. This one was wearing a black T-shirt with neon colored letters saying God-awful things about Hillary! And his dam fists were clenched as if he were ready for a fight. Yeah! Into a store dominated by female shoppers and hired help. The one thing that popped into my psych trained mind was on word: “wifebeater”. This is what a wifebeater would wear in public. Have no idea what happened to him or to the store as I vamoosed ASAP! And glad of it!
23From the look of him, all his hot air went to his upper extremities in the form of steam and cooked whatever was left of his brain. Hope the little gizmo valve on the top of his head does not beat him to death or simply fly off. That could be dangerous to anyone in the area.
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