Pissing Off The Prudes
After much research and the miracle of modern journalism, I have discovered that this story is true.
In New Hampshire a woman went to vote in the primary on Tuesday wearing a teeshirt that said, “McCain Hero, Trump Zero.” I don’t know this for a fact, but I think she was trying to start something. I mean, it kinda seems that way. And, holy cow, did she ever.
The election clerk told her that she could not wear that shirt in a voting center. The woman pointed out that another voter was wearing a large American flag on her shirt, the appropriated symbol of the lying, cheating, killing, stealing, sexually perverted, nasty political party. Well, she didn’t say that. I did.
Well, let the weirding begin:
Scafidi said at that point, the woman asked him if he wanted her to take her shirt off, despite not wearing anything underneath.
“I said, I’d rather she not,” Scafidi said. “But she took it off so fast, no one had time to react so the whole place just went, ‘woah,’ and she walked away, and I let her vote. She could’ve just gone into the hallway and turned it inside-out.”
She voted and put her shirt back on as she left the booth. Let’s hear it for Lady Godiva of Extner, New Hampshire! She got her very cool teeshirt saying in newspapers across the country.
In all good fun, the poll workers just let it be.
Scafidi said as bizarre as the incident was in the moment, poll workers mostly laughed it off and continued about their day after she left the polling location.
“If she felt it was her right, more power to her,” Scafidi said. “We all laughed about it as things were winding down, so I don’t know if it was a set-up, but I’ve never experienced anything like that.
Everybody stand up and do a thumbs up toward New Hampshire.
Thanks to el Lagarto for the heads up.