SarahPalinPlates Wrote:
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> FEDERAL LAWSUIT OVER NEVADA DMV BAN ON SARAH PALIN
> PLATES BUT ISSUING OBAMA PLATES
>
> Reno, Nevada – Is the Nevada DMV so scared of
> Sarah Palin that they’d trample on the US
> Constitution and the Nevada State Constitution to
> ban free speech and keep her name off license
> plates?
>
> Judging from a lawsuit filed Monday in US Federal
> Court, you’d think so.
>
> The case stems from the Nevada DMV’s continued
> issuance of plates such as “GO OBAMA”, while
> banning plates such as “GO PALIN” or even
> “PALIN” as “vulgar or obscene.” The
> Nevada DMV continues to implement this policy,
> banning only Conservative- or Republican-related
> plates while issuing Liberal or Democrat ones,
> despite the obvious bias of this practice, and
> rulings by the US Supreme Court protecting free
> speech even on personalized license plates. In
> what should an obvious sign of the DMV’s fear of
> public awareness of their actions, the Nevada DMV
> has admitted under oath the inconsistency of their
> actions, and that they use a secret, unelected
> committee to make decisions to ban personalized
> plates.
>
> At issue are when will the Nevada DMV be forced to
> stop censoring free speech, to alter its practices
> of using public policy to advance a particular
> political agenda, and to give up abuse of their
> positions of authority to run up legal costs for
> anyone daring to challenge them.
>
> Capt. James Linlor, of Zephyr Cove, Nevada brought
> the lawsuit after repeated requests to the Nevada
> DMV to reverse their policies and stop banning
> free speech, and several state-level hearings that
> the DMV lost. The DMV (in fitting irony) even got
> “thrown under the bus” by the Nevada State
> Attorney General’s office, which declined to
> provide representation for the DMV in their legal
> appeals.
>
> The case and examples of the Nevada DMV’s
> allegedly illegal practices are chronicled at
>
http://sarahpalinplates.com.
It only makes sense that a conservative Republican governor (the third consecutive one in Nevada) would allow the DMV under his watch to disparage conservative drivers. A shrewd ploy to stir up discontent against "big government" and get himself reelected.