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It appears as though the first lady may have broken the law. I know it's not much of a shocker but, after placing her early vote, while still inside the polling place, she spoke with voters about the importance of Obama having continued support.
She let voters including electrician Dennis Campbell, 56, take some photos.Illinois state law -- Sec. 17-29 (a) -- states: "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."
"She was telling me how important it was to vote to keep her husband's agenda going," Campbell said.
According to a pool reporter from the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES at the scene, the conversation took place INSIDE the voting center, not far from the booths.
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.Wow! Talk about brazen. You've got to be kidding me? She didn't know? She's well liked, so it's "okay"? There is nothing to defend here. She broke the law. Not only that but, even an average person like myself has heard for YEARS that ignorance of the law is NO excuse. It doesn't matter if she knew or not.
"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."
WHITE HOUSE DEFENDS ELECTIONEERING
When questioned about the brazen nature of Mrs. Obama's campaigning, press secretary Robert Gibbs defended the action.
"I don't think it would be much to imagine, the First Lady might support her husband's agenda," Gibbs smiled.
I find it awfully hard to believe she didn't know. All this time, we've been told how educated she is so, how could she not know something so simple and obvious?
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