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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] What's next for Kamala Harris?
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 03:51:17 -0000 (UTC)
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suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
>On 11/27/2024 1:21 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:28:48 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

>>>>The baseball cap he wore wasn't a MAGA hat.

>>>>C'mon, H.G. I don't believe for a moment that electioneering laws in
>>>>your country are significantly different than in ours.

>>>>No one can claim that a red baseball cap is an exclusive symbol of the
>>>>Republican Party. It was a college's color and had a college's logo on
>>>>it. It was absolutely not electioneering. He made the point that the
>>>>specific polling place official was acting in an illegal partisan manner
>>>>when he swapped it for a blue baseball cap with a different college's
>>>>logo and wasn't prevented from wearing it.

>>>>If the voter isn't wearing anything with a candidate's name or some sort
>>>>of partisan political slogan, then it's not electioneering. He can wear
>>>>any color he likes, even if it's colors selected by the candidate for
>>>>use on yard signs. It's words, not colors, that determine electioneering.

>>>Well then I guess I can't wear my old high school football cap to the
>>>polls either.

>>Please don't twist my words so they mean the opposite. Your high school
>>football cap wouldn't have words on it that would be electioneering.

>Neither did BTR's team hat.

Correct.