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发帖数: 29846 | 1 左派专制主义：辛辛那提的公共学校系统让高中生们在上课时间乘坐校车去投票。投票
之前，左派专制精 英还给高中生们看了样本选票，其中只有民主党的候选人！
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/21/busing-students-vote-wont-happen-cincinnati-district-says/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politi
The Cincinnati Public Schools system "expressly denies" that it did anything
wrong when it allowed a group of high school students to be bused during
school hours to the Board of Elections, to be shown sample ballots that
included only Democrats, and then to vote.
And it promises never to do it again.
Thomas Brinkman, a Republican candidate for county auditor, and a group
called the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending & Taxes filed a legal
complaint after three van loads of students from Hughes High School were
bused on Oct. 13 to the Hamilton County Board of Elections. The students,
all registered voters, were given sample ballots that listed only Democratic
candidates -- "clearly with the intention of instructing [them] how to vote
," according to the complaint -- before they cast their ballots.
Then the kids were then taken for free ice cream, a move Brinkman and the
coalition said was tantamount to "bribery."
Brinkman's attorney, Chris Finney, said a teacher at the high school
coordinated with Gwen Robinson, a former principal within the district, to
allow a local church to provide three vans to transport the students to a
local polling location.
"We wanted to stop this activity, to stop the buses from rolling and the one
-sided nature of the contact," Finney told FoxNews.com. "We want academic
freedom."
On Wednesday, attorneys for the school district and Brinkman filed an agreed
order that calls for the district to "not use any personnel or property"
for advocating any particular political candidate or party.
We want these kids exposed to the full range of ideas, and this order from
the judge requires that," Finney said.
He isn't convinced, however, that the busing is limited to Cincinnati.
"We suspect this activity is going on throughout the state of Ohio," said
Finney, who was unable to provide additional details. "And it just needs to
stop."
The agreement, which was signed by Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge
Beth Myers, states that "All future efforts to transport students of the
Cincinnati Public Schools to a polling place so that those students may vote
as part of an educational activity shall comply with all policies of the
Cincinnati Public Schools and Ohio law concerning field trips for students."
But school officials "expressly" denied any wrongdoing, and Finney said a
lawsuit against the school system will continue despite Wednesday's order.
It seeks to have the incident declared a violation of Ohio law and district
policy and to have a permanent injunction issued to never allow students to
be subjected to partisan political activities during school hours. It also
seeks to have Cincinnati Public Schools pay Finney's attorney fees, or at
least $10,000. The case is scheduled to continue on Nov. 30.
"We're going to use this lawsuit to expose the depth of collusion between
the Cincinnati Public Schools and the Democratic Party, who, in a one-sided
way, seeks to indoctrinate the children for their electoral purposes," said
Finney, who alleges that some school system employees are explicitly tasked
to "turn out the vote" for Democratic candidates during election season.
"We intend to put a stop to that once and for all," he said.
Mark Stepaniak, an attorney for Cincinnati Public Schools, acknowledged that
the district transported about a "score" of students to the polling place,
an arrangement put in place by Robinson and a teacher he declined to
identify.
In previous years, Stepaniak said, students were transported using donated
bus tokens from a local YMCA. But due to budget shortfalls, the YMCA was
unable to provide the tokens this year, prompting Robinson to arrange to
have buses from a local church transport the students. He acknowledged that
the students were given sample ballots by Robinson as they exited the buses.
"In isolation, it's like, 'How'd that happen?' But the district is not
interested in partisan politics," he said. "That's not what they're supposed
to do and that's not what they did."
Stepaniak said the activity was not occurring at other schools in the
district.
"No one from the district distributed campaign material, or knew that
campaign material would be distributed or sought to advance a political
candidate," he said. "It happened the way it happened. We're now on alert to
make sure that everything's tightened down."
Stepaniak continued, "I wouldn't say it's much ado about nothing, but it's
definitely a one-off event and not emblematic of Cincinnati Public Schools
to advance a particular party or candidate.
"You can see where the worry was, but this wasn't some massive plan by the
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