As I described once before, a friend of mine was once asked to remove a button with the Polish Solidarity Union logo when entering a polling place. You aren’t supposed to wear anything witin a hundred feet which can even be loosely described as electioneering. So why is Linda McMahan, CEO of the World Wrestling, uh, I don’t know what the “E” stands for, allowed to distribute free WWE paraphernalia at polling places on election day?
Will the oil companies be giving out free gallons of gasoline to defeat Prop 23?
And of course there’s Prop 19!
6 comments
Comments feed for this article
October 28, 2010 at 4:20 pm
tra
From what I read it sounds like the merchandise giveaway will have to take place outside the exclusion zone of 100 feet (or 75 feet, or whatever it is in Connecticut). But people will be allowed to wear WWE clothes or pins or whatever when they go in to vote.
Frankly, I don’t think any of this is going to help McMahon in any significant way with her expensively-self-financed-but-seemingly-doomed campaign. But I suppose all the news coverage does provide some free publicity for her company…well, “free” if you don’t count the millions she’s pissed away, Whitman-style.
October 28, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Anonymous
e stands for entertainment. kinda like you,e.
October 28, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Eric Kirk
Is that like supposed to be an insult or something?
October 29, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Sally
on commondreams.org today, there is a story about McDonalds inserting brochures *with their employee’s paychecks* (!) recommending that they vote for certain candidates (all republican) along with the comment: “If the right people are elected we will be able to continue with raises and benefits… If others are elected we will not.”
Certainly NOT legal!
October 29, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Eric Kirk
Oh yeah, those wage and benefits packages McDonald’s offers – so worth fighting for!
November 1, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Eric Kirk
The DOJ says it isn’t legal.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/vince_mcmahon_smacks_doj_for_warning_over_free_wwe_gear.php
It seems that I remember the Saturn Cafe in Santa Cruz offering free cookies to those who went to the restaurant with the proof of voting slip. Was that illegal?