08/19/2008 22:00 PACIFIC
SEATTLE, WA - ORBUSMAX EXCLUSIVE


***** DID OBAMA SUPPORTER BREAK SCHOOL POLICY AND/OR ELECTION LAW ON MONDAY AND PRIMARY ELECTION TUESDAY (8/18-8/19)? *****

The Seattle Public school system may be finding itself in more hot water, following dustups over last fall’s “Myth Of Thanksgiving”, and last summer’s “Exploring White Privilege”. A reliable source has told ORBUSMAX that at least one Obama supporter was caught openly selling Obama for President t-shirts, “on Seattle Public School premises during an official School District Training” for teachers, yesterday and today, at the Aki Kurose Middle school.

The source says they overheard the Obama supporter being told by an attendee of the training on Monday that the table display was inappropriate and may be in violation of school policy, but nonetheless the Obama supporter returned on Tuesday and once again set up the display with the t-shirts for sale. It appears school officials made no attempt to stop or remove the display either day.

(#1 - See SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS - LEVY OR ELECTION INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION, #4, at http://www.seattleschools.org/area/policies/e/E22.00.pdf - "Students, teachers, and administrators may not use school facilities to make or display election propaganda". "Signs, memoranda, or the like, stating the reasons why voters should cast their votes for or against a particular ballot issue or candidate cannot be made at school, cannot be made with school materials, and cannot be displayed at school." )

(#2 – See Seattle Public Schools Policy E02.01 on "COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES", at http://www.seattleschools.org/area/policies/e/E02.01.pdf: Certain Corporate Support or Activity Prohibited. No corporate support or activity will be permitted in the District or in the schools that: … f. Promotes or opposes any political candidate or ballot proposition )



ELECTION LAW VIOLATION?

Aki Kurose also served as an official polling place for the Washington State primary held Tuesday. The source went on to say “although the Obama display was not next to the main polling place entrance, there were undoubtedly some voters who walked by the Obama display on their way to the polls today”.



PHOTOS TAKEN OF OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT DISPLAY