Wis. candidate can't use controversial description

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A legislative candidate from Wisconsin can't use a profane, racially charged phrase to describe herself on the ballot, an election oversight board decided Wednesday.

Ieshuh Griffin, an independent running for a downtown Milwaukee seat in the state Assembly, wants to use the phrase, "NOT the 'whiteman's b----.'"

But the state's Government Accountability Board voted to bar that wording, agreeing with a staff recommendation that it is pejorative and therefore not allowed.

State law allows independent candidates to have five words describing themselves placed after their names on the ballot as long as it's not pejorative, profane, discriminatory or includes an obscene word or phrase.

Griffin, who is black, argued her case to the five white, retired judges on the board that regulates elections. She said the phrase was protected free speech.

"It's a freedom of expression," she said. "It's not racial. It's not a slur."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100722/...NjYW5kaWRhdGU-

Freedom of speech or not? I say it is.

I'll wait for other to chime in.:popcorn:

How is "whiteman's bi#$% not racial and a slur?
That being said, it may be free speech, but it's a government document, and not allowed, anymore than you are allowed to put profane language on license plates...

nasty

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Originally Posted by 2ndthyme

nasty

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Agreed........and stoopid, very stoopid........and i meant stoopid instead of stupid, which is a higher form of stupid. What a friggin moron.

it would certainly clue people in as to what she's all about though hey, thats the beauty part of free speech

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Originally Posted by chew 'n' spit

Agreed........and stoopid, very stoopid........and i meant stoopid instead of stupid, which is a higher form of stupid. What a friggin moron.

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Well said and nasty bad 2T.