Activists crash tribute
I find this to be quite sensational... I can understand how melodrama is helpful in some situations, but this is unproductive and only serves to foster friction. I must say, it's difficult to work with elections officials that also have to face this kind of over-the-top grandstanding. (I can imagine that it would have gone down similarly even without the cameras.)
Activists crash tribute
Even as colleagues tearfully eulogized her controversial tenure as Palm Beach County's election supervisor, Theresa LePore had to fend off verbal attacks by critics who crashed the surprise tribute.
Speaker after speaker, many choked with emotion, heaped praise on LePore at a meeting of county supervisors at an Orlando hotel on Tuesday. Suddenly, two women and a man, one with a handheld video camera, burst in through an exit door in the back of the room and stomped onto the podium.
One woman, identified as Bev Harris of Black Box Voting by several supervisors, announced she was "serving" LePore with papers regarding a dispute with her office over public records.
As the crowd realized the drama was real, not part of a farewell skit as some first thought, the supervisors booed and screamed as a woman with a video camera panned the room.