Michelle Obama campaign stop at Fla. school riles local GOP

First lady Michelle Obama speaks during a rally at the VFW Post 1503 on June 7 in Dale City, Va.

/ BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImages

(CBS News) Some Republican members of a Miami school board are fighting a scheduled visit Tuesday by first lady Michelle Obama to recruit volunteers for the president's reelection campaign, the Miami Herald reports.

In her first official campaign swing through Florida, Mrs. Obama will meet with supporters at the Barbara Goleman High School in Miami Lakes before addressing an arena at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. A recent Quinnipiac University poll shows President Obama with an edge in the critical battleground state over GOP challenger Mitt Romney, 45 percent to 41 percent.

But at least two members of the Miami-Dade School Board have pushed back against the first lady's earlier stop, suggest holding a political event at a high school constitutes a conflict of interest.

Carlos Curbelo asked the board attorney to reexamine the event's legality, opining that Mrs. Obama's use of the school "explicitly to benefit the president's reelection campaign is inappropriate and sends the wrong message to our students, employees, and to taxpayers."

Another member, Renier Diaz de la Portilla, said the venue choice is "downright wrong," and called for the event to be cancelled.

"Don't these liberals have boundaries?" Diaz de la Portilla said in a statement. Although school board seats are nonpartisan, Diaz de la Portilla is running as a Republican for a Florida congressional seat, and Curbelo has worked before as a GOP operative.

Watch an excerpt from the first lady's Miami speech in the video to the left.

School Board attorney Walter Harvey defended the event as being entirely legal since the district doesn't spend money on it, and employees are not allowed to attend if they are on the clock. The campaign is "essentially renting the facility," Harvey said.

Meanwhile, across the country Tuesday, Romney will also be holding a campaign event at a high school in Colorado, another swing state.

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Moveon_Misfits July 10, 2012 5:28 PM EDT
Were you Zann-Zel?
Was the site manager being petty again?
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Yes - I'm Zann-Zel - they kicked me off while I was on vacation! I hadn't been here in two weeks! So I have NO idea why they kicked me off! And when I tried to get back in, every form I tried of Zann-Zel got kicked back!

[DaveFe]

Boo Hoo...GOP crying again. Losers...get used to losing cause Obama wins again.

[A_Canadian_Opinion]

Wow, an attorney showing common sense!

[marychgo]

What an extraordinary collection of silliness!

A large proportion of high school seniors are already 18 years old; between now and November, an even larger percentage of high school seniors will turn 18 and become eligible voters. That's why BOTH the Obama and Romney campaigns are scheduling their candidates and major surrogates for presentations at high schools.

If you don't like that, older folks (including me), tough! An 18-year-old voter has as much right to consider the issues and the candidates as someone who's 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, or 80 years old! More power to them! I'm GLAD the candidates are appealing to the nation's youngest voters!

[expatriate2]

Bush couldn't handle a high school, he had to read My Pet Goat while the world fell apart. George Nero Bush. Not much difference with Romney except he'll never find a running mate as evil as Cheney.

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by Shallow_Rs_Are_CRET-_-Ns July 10, 2012 2:34 PM EDT
LOL!...Moveon forgets that the majority of today's "Red States" were actually once "Blue States". They "flipped" overnight, when Lyndon Johnson (another awesome Democrat) signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and especially after he signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The same group of people (or their descendents) that "flip-flopped" from blue to red back then, are the same group of people or their descendents) voting for "Mr. Flip-Flop" (aka, "Mr. Etch-A-Sketch") today. It's in their genes to "flip-flop"...LOL!

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Aww come on Shallow, you know deep down you are a Dixiecrat at heart like Lyndon Johnson who enslaved blacks with his Great Society Programs. He and the Democrats both from the North and South for destroying the black family structure by replacing a father with a welfare check and the root of most of blacks problems with crime, drugs, alcohol illegitimacy, high rates of incarceration and the rest.

Is that was was so awesome about this shameful man dishonest man? His personal life was also a disaster.
Those red state have quite a few Democrats in Congress as well. We had Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton for famous examples exploiting blacks with social programs for votes.

Face it Shallow slavery, Jim Crow Segregation and the KKK are your heritage whether you like it or not.
You are one of those descendents.
LMAO!

[jackdawson4all]

And NOW the republicans want to listen to teachers and defend their rights? lol.... oh republicans, you amuse me.

[crashdummy38]

I would hope that student attendance is voluntary and not mandatory for Obama's brainwashing presentation.

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And what about for Romney's brainwashing presentation at the Colorado school....on the SAME day??!! LMAO!!!

[Martha12345]

She needs to get back into the kitchen and bake her husband a pie !

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I always wonder about people who make such remarks....don't you ever start to wonder what might be IN the pie? ya know...sugar, eggs, fruit, arsenic...

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Meanwhile, across the country Tuesday, Romney will also be holding a campaign event at a high school in Colorado, another swing state.
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LOL!
Gasp! Don't these republicans have boundaries???

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Hey Ranger! : )
I was starting to wonder what happened to you!

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Oh! Sorry to hear that Ranger! Hope you get to feeling better soon!