The Return of Gladys Kravitz
October 23, 2012
The New Yorker has a story this week about the Right’s efforts to systematically disenfranchise likely Democratic voters through “voter fraud” legislation, even though the type of fraud being targeted is virtually non-existent.
One African American woman, Teresa Sharp, went to Ohio’s Hamilton County Board of Elections to contest a specious challenge to her family’s eligibility to vote:
Sharp told me, “It was like a kangaroo court. There were, like, ninety-four people being challenged, and my family and I were the only ones contesting it! I looked around. The board members and the stenographer, they were all white people. The lady bringing these challenges, she was white, and reminded me of Gladys Kravitz”— the nosy neighbor on the sitcom Bewitched.
Jane Mayer is a very good reporter – she’s the one who outed 24 showrunner Joel Surnow as a torturephilic wingnut – but I feel like she missed a crucial follow-up question in this story.
The question, of course, being: which Gladys Kravitz? Alice Pearce, or Sandra Gould?
The Classic TV History Blog 
October 23, 2012 at 2:28 pm
It’s gotta be Alice Pearce.
Be grateful the board members didn’t remind her of Harry Morton(s).
Rich
October 23, 2012 at 2:35 pm
I actually Googled the voter fraud harridan (her name is mentioned in the article), and if the photos I found were indeed of the same lady (I wasn’t completely certain), then I thought she was closer to Sandra Gould. Who knows. Of course, if you think of Sandra Gould instead of Alice Pearce when you think of Gladys Kravitz, then maybe you don’t deserve to vote after all….
October 23, 2012 at 3:15 pm
They were both the same woman. Samantha used her magic to alter her appearance as a test before she changed Darrin, to make sure the alteration would unnoticed by those who knew her. At least that’s how it plays in Toobworld…..