Texas Cops Confiscate Anti-Republican Yard Sign After Threatening Property Owner
by Colin Kalmbacher | 10:43 am, October 6th, 2018
A political yard sign in Central Texas was confiscated by local authorities last week after it upset the feelings of a Republican Party official in the Lone Star State.
The sign in question was homemade and didnt offer support for any particular candidate. Rather, the signhand-painted in red, white and bluefeatured an elephant with its trunk up a womans skirt. The woman in the painting had word bubble with the word Help. The sign was captioned, Your vote matters.
Other signs in the same yard promoted Democrats running for state and local offices, including gubernatorial candidate Lupe Valdez, agricultural commission candidate Kim Olson, U.S. House candidate Julie Oliver and U.S. Senate candidate Beto ORourke.
Current Texas Agricultural Commission Sid Miller took note of the sign and posted about it on Facebook. In a post, Miller made an unsubstantiated allegation that the sign was an attempt to depict the daughter of Supreme Court nominee and alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh.
After Millers Facebook post drew attention to the sign, Republicans called for Stanfords arrest.
Local police then visited Stanfords home. No arrest occurred but the sign was taken by police. Police told me to remove the sign or they would take it and would arrest me, Stanford said. So I let them take the sign.
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