Chelsea Clinton channels 2007 Julie Hamlin -no campaigning on federal property!

Came across this small news story regarding Chelsea Clinton campaigning on federal property in Puerto Rico while scouring the Washington Post online Saturday afternoon while watching the first two games of the NCAA Men's Lacrosse tourney on ESPNU.

(I took particular note of how tenacious the UVA Cavaliers were in coming back to beat the Maryland Terps 8-7, with 31 seconds left in overtime in their quarterfinal game in Annapolis, their second game in a row won by one goal, after defeating UMBC 10-9 last weekend.
Next up for UVA, Syracuse in the Saturday 12 Noon semi-final up in Foxborough, with top-seeded Duke taking on Johns Hopkins in the 2:30 game, a rematch of the 2007 and 2005 NCAA title games, both of which the JHU Blue Jays won.
They've already sold over 40,000 tickets for next weekend's game; hope there's no rain.)
http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3402330&categoryId=2491548&n8pe6c=3 )

The story and the principle behind the Chelsea story made me recall my HBB post of March 12, 2007, below, regarding Julie Hamlin and a friend of hers campaigning for city commission votes in the U.S. Post Office branch off of Hallandale Beach Blvd. and Layne Blvd., while I was in line. If only I'd had my digital camera with me then!
Election Day picks; Julie Hamlin's campaign tactics

Hamlin went on to place third in the March 2007 Hallandale Beach City Commission race for the two seats available that went to Keith London and William Julian.
London led the way with 1,077 votes, Julian placing second with 942 voyes, and Hamlin
edging out Hallandale Beach native and community activist Terri Dillard for third place, 759-695.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051402020_pf.html

Chelsea Clinton denied access in Vieques
The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The U.S. Navy has denied Chelsea Clinton permission to campaign for her mother on a former bombing range on a small Puerto Rican island.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign wanted to use the land Wednesday as a setting to discussthe candidate's clean up plan for the region and call to give some areas to local residents.

But Navy spokeswoman Lt. Lara Bollinger said no one is allowed to campaign on federal property.

Chelsea Clinton is making her second campaign visit to Puerto Rico in the last three weeks. The U.S. territory has 55 delegates at stake in its June 1 Democratic primary.

The Navy closed the range in Vieques in April 2003 following years of protests after two errant bombs killed a security guard.

Election Day picks; Julie Hamlin's campaign tactics

On election day this Tuesday, I'm planning on voting for two candidates for HB's City Commission whom I first voted for two years ago, because they seem to share at least some of the same civil outrage and sense of purpose that I have in abundance: Arturo O'Neill and Keith London.

I spoke to London's mother about a month ago ago, telling her about our mutual concerns, as well as all the egregious incompetency ensnaring this town -for probably close to a half-hour!- while she was doing a lit drop for Keith in my father's neighborhood.

Arturo's sister-in-law left a message for him on my voice mail earlier this week.
He has a website but I can't seem to find an email address.
http://www.arturo-oneill.com/About_Arturo.html

Any fair-minded person could see that this town definitely needs a Hispanic presence on the City Comm., to not only reflect the changing demographics and break the condo hold on the city, but for some more fresh ideas.
Just some of the many reasons I voted for him two years ago.
Could the other candidates, other than London, not be more oblivious to that need?

Yesterday, following up on previous reports I made, I discovered EVEN MORE garbage from The Beach Club condos going onto the beach and nearby access roads, including large chunks of asbestos and insulation.
Yes, I took photos with my trusty Canon camera!

I also followed-up my prior visits and found that now all three of the main sinks in the North Beach Men's restroom are broken.

From Thanksgiving 'til ten days ago, two of the four there were broken.

SHOCKER: Now it's three, with only the one in the handicapped stall working.

Three months!!

That's your HB government in action.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg!!!

Yes, another Joy Cooper/Mike Good/Bill Julian success story!

I'm really mad at myself for not having placed the mountains of information I've accumulated on the blogs in time for Tuesday's election, but "Que sera, sera" as noted political analyst Doris Day once put it.

By the way, yesterday afternoon at the Golden Isles branch of the U.S. Post Office, while I was there to follow-up a complaint about the safety of the parking lots in the HB branches -esp. the one on US-1, a longstanding bete-noir of mine!- I saw and heard HB City Comm. candidate Julie Hamlin -dressed in a green fringed Hamlin t-shirt- and some gal pal of hers -dressed in a white t-shirt and red shorts- campaign and I'm a very political person, having been involved in both national, state and local races here in Florida as well as Iowa, Indiana and Virginia, but nobody I know would ever consciously think it was, well, kosher, to campaign and ask people stuck in line at the Post Office, a govt. bldg., to vote for a candidate.

Yes, the rules are different here, as that old Miami tourism advertising campaign accurately put it!