A Hillary-minder? 'It Takes a Village' Quilt Ticks off Voter
St. Philip's Lutheran Church in Fridley, MN said it's an African proverb, not a Hillary Clinton quote, but agreed to flip up the quilt after county and city officials got involved.
Updated (5:30 p.m.): Sometimes, it takes a complaint. Voters at a church in Fridley, MN are no longer marking their ballots under a quilt with the slogan "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child" after a citizen complained it made her think of President Obama's secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. After Anoka County and City of Fridley officials got involved, leaders at St. Philip's Lutheran Church agreed to fold up the quilt so the voters couldn't see the offending message. The church's part-time maintenance staffperson and a member of the congregation moved two voting stations and used a ladder to lift hook the bottom of the quilt to the screws holding the top edge to the wall. Whose Quote on Quilt? A Fridley woman who would only give her …
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Dennis
7:17 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012
If I was raising children, I would not want Becky living in my village. more ›