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Polling Poultry: Nevada Bans Chicken Costumes During Upcoming Election

It appears that officials will not allow free range chickens to roam on election day in Nevada. Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden has been ridiculed for her comment about how people used to barter for medical care. Critics have suggested that she was looking back fondly on the way “our grandparents would bring a chicken to the doctor.” Now, officials have banned chicken suits at polling places to stop critics from ridiculing Lowden.

Various activists have been campaigning against Lowden under the banner “Chickens for Checkups” and followed her with people in chicken outfits.

Washoe County Registrar of Voters Dan Burk banned the outfits as “inappropriate and obvious” advocacy in polling places. In fairness, most states do not allow open campaigning in polling places, though large chicken costumes have not been a common problem.

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74 thoughts on “Polling Poultry: Nevada Bans Chicken Costumes During Upcoming Election”

  2. Elaine:

    I don’t know what to think of Gretchen Carlson, I think the John Stewart piece might be right. Although she does seem a little off. I don’t know anything about “Chicken Sue” but I do find it funny.

    The Little Red Hen definitely was a capitalist story, she got to eat all the bread she made. If it was a communist story she would have been forced to give over half the bread away, in our system she would be forced to give 30% away and would have had to follow EPA and FDA rules so the bread may not have even been made.

    In a Fascist state the little red hen would have turned her bread into bombs and attacked the pigs 🙂

  3. Byron,

    Like Sarah Palin and Gretchen Carlson–Sue Lowden has “beauty queen” brains. I know, I know…Carlson graduated with honors from Stanford and studied at Oxford. Still, it doesn’t prove she’s the brightest bulb on the string of Christmas lights. I’m not impressed with the gray matter or common sense of any of these women.

    Sue Lowden is a ditz…in my book! I’ve been wondering what wall she’s been seeing the writing on. She believes in the “tenants” of chicken coops. I’m not sure what “tenets” she believes in though.

    The Little Red Hen was not an example of the free market–she was an example of someone who reaped the rewards of her hard work. She didn’t sell her bread in the marketplace–she ate it fresh from the oven…after she sowed the seeds, watered the plants, picked the wheat, etc!

    😉

  4. Now, officials have banned chicken suits at polling places to stop critics from ridiculing Lowden…

    Someone is begging to be egged…

    If you want to stop critics from ridiculing Lowden, you better shut her up.

  7. eniobob:

    that was very good. Does he advise the Obama administration on economics?

  8. Elaine M.,

    An inspired verse … I do love it when these politicians get your creative genius going.

  9. I know where these ideas are coming from and I am prepared to unmask the source:

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  11. Seems to me she was referring to the past. And she was correct, people did bring things to the Dr. for payment.

    If I were a doctor I might take chickens or 40 lbs of beef for an office visit. Or some good pies or beer. I wouldn’t have to buy it myself. I also need yard work done. Sounds good to me although I doubt they will take a chicken for an MRI.

    The way the economy is going (and we can thank Harry Reid somewhat), that may be the only thing we can pay the doctor with. I suggest you order from this website to get ahead on your Rx money:

    http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/index.html?aid=home&gclid=CNWKhZTa66ECFV195Qod51BVJQ

    I predict the flim flam man will lose to Chicken Sue by at least 15 points, Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow notwithstanding. At least she is willing to pay her debts, there is no dishonor in that.

    Chicken Sue is ahead of her times and sees the writing on the wall. 4 years of congressional democrats have almost killed the goose so chickens are all that is left.

    The Little Red Hen was a chicken to. She was also a good example of the free market. Hopefully Chicken Sue believes in the same tenants.

    http://extension.usu.edu/aitc/lessons/pdf/little_hen.pdf

  12. Man, you caint say anything nowadays without it going viral immediately.

    Sue!, Sue, sue…

  14. FFLEO,

    Honestly, that was my second choice, but there seems to be a lack of Mingus’s “Eat that Chicken” on Youtube.

    Just in case someone things Cab is a little too… pop.

    Here’s Big Mama’s version of Little Red Rooster.

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ycw4uaXPRU&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0]

  17. Good one PaulT.

    JsyS. Only if the egg is rotten or addled…like most IRS agents.

  18. Now see, without Ms. Sue’s inspiration, we would not have gotten all of these corny “jokes”, poems, nor would we have heard that jazzy, swingy, 1940s big band sound–a song I must admit that I have not heard before.

    Truth be told, I bet Gyges, being a musician, probably has heard this song before.

  19. Barter transactions are taxable as income. If your doctor takes a chicken as payment, does he/she have to send an egg to the IRS?

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