Kami Garcia Quotes
I almost ran you down, remember? I have to be nice to you, so you don't have me arrested.
Garcia, Kami, and Margaret Stohl. Beautiful Creatures. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
He controlled a Shiite political party with its own armed militia.
Kami Garcia is an American writer. She is known for writing young adult fiction and graphic novels for DC Comics.