Do not support “the old Jewish lady”
Cross posting from the Minnesota Forum
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10593076
from a strib story yesterday
http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/267264381.html
The Minnesota Supreme Court sided with Rep. Phyllis Kahn’s campaign Tuesday in a dispute that led to the reassignment of a Minneapolis election judge last week to keep her away from voters until a city investigation is completed.
The case is the latest in a bitter battle between the longtime legislator and her opponent Mohamud Noor, whose mobilization of Somali-American delegates led to Kahn’s failure to receive the DFL endorsement. A primary election will take place next month.
The campaign filed a petition with the court on July 7 claiming that election judge Fadumo Yusuf asked voters in Somali at City Hall — where hundreds of Somali people have been casting absentee ballots — whether they were supporting “our Somali brother” or “the old Jewish lady,” and seeking her removal. State law requires election judges to be neutral.
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Now there are many reasons to oppose Phyllis Kahn. She has been around forever and some would like a change.
And the Somalis are not the only group in the country that would like to have one of its own elected.
But for an election judge to use this phrase... one has to wonder where she got it from.
