Democrats Avoid Constituents on Memorial Break
From the The New York Times on June 7, “Democrats Are Skipping Town Halls to Avoid Voter Rage”
“If the time-honored tradition of the political meeting is not quite dead, it seems to be teetering closer to extinction. Of the 255 Democrats who make up the majority in the House, only a handful held town-hall-style forums as legislators spent last week at home in their districts.
In New Hampshire, where open political meetings are deeply ingrained in the state’s traditions, Representative Carol Shea-Porter’s campaign Web site had this message for visitors: “No upcoming events scheduled. Please visit us again soon!”
Ms. Shea-Porter, a Democrat, attended a state convention of letter carriers on Saturday, but she did not hold a town-hall-style meeting during the Congressional recess. In 2006, when she was an underdog candidate for the House, she often showed up at the meetings of her Republican rival, Representative Jeb Bradley, to question him about Iraq.”
Comments beneath the article suggest that people are still of the erroneous notion that our tea parties are financed by the ‘rich’ (one of many Pelosi lies) or that we are violent or racist (not one incident to support that idea) or that there is no attempt to socialize the private sector, the educational system, the media and now the internet for a complete authoritarian dictatorship by the current administration, 34 of whom belong to a communist organization within the legislature?
How sad to be so brainwashed! It is amazing that anyone believes that tea parties are orchestrated by insurance companies who are actually on board with Obamacare, or financed by the GOP, who couldn’t get a protest together if their life depended on it!
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