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Union Thugs Block Protesters From Kathy Castor(D-FL 12) Town Hall Meeting (Videos Included)
Stuck On Stupid ^ | August 7, 2009 | George

Posted on 08/07/2009 9:46:53 AM PDT by Quaker

Kathy Castor

Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL) had a town hall meeting in YBOR City just east of Tampa August 6, 2009. It sounds like Castor had this meeting planned to exclude protesters that were in opposition to the ObamaCare health care debacle.

I received this e-mail from my County Republican Chairman:

Here is an eyewitness account of someone who was there last night and wanted me to get this out:

“I was one of the first people in the forum.

(Excerpt) Read more at stuckon-stupid.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: bustunions; castor; democrats; florida; healthcare; kathycastor; tampa; unions; unionthugs; yborcity
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I wish I could have made it to this meeting.
1 posted on 08/07/2009 9:46:54 AM PDT by Quaker
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To: Quaker

I don’t recognize this country. Obama has taken this country to the $hitter faster than anyone could imagine. The hate level and thug tactics used by this Administration is second to none in American history.


2 posted on 08/07/2009 9:55:16 AM PDT by Always Right (The Brown Shirt Media © is coming!)
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Union goons were allowed in beforehand to occupy the front row, via the handicapped entrance.

The line in the sand is being drawn.

looks like bad stuff is coming down the pike. I would very much like to participate and have my voice heard, but I would also like very much to not get my @$$ handed to me by a union thug.

3 posted on 08/07/2009 9:57:36 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns
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This reminds me of the post here yesterday by the FR member (I think her name was bereford...?) who tried to attend a Townhall by Doggett in TX. She is a General’s widow and had access to the meeting site because she is already in the computer. She took a picture of her late husband in uniform and had an anti healthcare plan slogan on it.

She got there early and sat down in the room. Then 2 Obamabots approached her and ushered her out because they said she couldn’t have the sign on “Federal Property”. The forced her up against the wall in the hallway and finally forced her all the way outside in 106 degree heat. She marched up and down in front of the meeting outside in the heat and suffered heat stroke. She is still recovering this morning. I’ll post the link when I find it.

Our government has been taken over by THUGS!


4 posted on 08/07/2009 9:59:06 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Quaker

Man, none of those guys has missed a meal lately, have they?


5 posted on 08/07/2009 9:59:31 AM PDT by silverleaf (If you can't be a good example, at least don't be a horrible lesson)
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To: Quaker

Representative Castor’s hosting of SEIU thugs, ACORN crooks and Planned Parenthood goons prior to the event and then giving them almost exclusive seating priority to the exclusion of grass roots concerned citizens is a clear indication of who she truly represents ... and it is not Real Americans and the Constitution. I will be actively working henceforth to support her unseating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


6 posted on 08/07/2009 10:00:32 AM PDT by Beowulf
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To: I Buried My Guns
looks like bad stuff is coming down the pike. I would very much like to participate and have my voice heard, but I would also like very much to not get my @$$ handed to me by a union thug.

You may have to consider buying a shovel.

7 posted on 08/07/2009 10:00:46 AM PDT by Pete
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To: Quaker

Can SOMEBODY tell me the legality of the PRESIDENT calling on Union thugs instead of the POLICE or National Guard to monitor and maintain order at these events if he’s so concerned?

Somebody? Anybody?


8 posted on 08/07/2009 10:03:16 AM PDT by J40000
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Unions are no more that Nazi SS and they have always been that way. The law allows them to beat people up so there is nothing one can do about being assaulted by the Nazi Union Criminals. And of course they are all left wing Democrats.

Vote them all out of office so we can reclaim our country.

9 posted on 08/07/2009 10:05:00 AM PDT by YOUGOTIT (I will always be a Soldier)
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SEIU, Weather-Underground Union thugs, call and tell them...it is on.

Service Employees International Union
Mailing Address:
1800 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Telephone:
National Capital Area: 202-730-7000
Toll-free: 800-424-8592


10 posted on 08/07/2009 10:06:17 AM PDT by roses of sharon (It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt: Hoffer)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
bereford101's experience with Doggett I hope that I was correct in my synopsis of all she's written here.
11 posted on 08/07/2009 10:06:20 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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Union members are NOT law-enforcement! Not in THIS country. The government HAS jurisdiction over law enforcement. LEGITIMATE law enforcement!

They CANNOT use these people to do this!


12 posted on 08/07/2009 10:07:35 AM PDT by J40000
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"I wish I could have made it to this meeting. "

Send it in to flag@whitehouse.gov

13 posted on 08/07/2009 10:08:39 AM PDT by YHAOS
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To: Always Right

I see video of that and think “Is that Iran they are showing” then I realize, OH MY GOD this is taking place in AMERICA. America, Iran, Venezuela, I can’t tell the damn difference anymore. Scary to say that but it’s true. Obama and his minions are DESTROYING this country piece by piece


14 posted on 08/07/2009 10:09:22 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Zero and the donks turning to violence, with Brownshirts coming to the fore for the democrat socialists. And some idjit on another thread said that comparisons between the donks and the national socialists aka Nazis were ridiculous...


15 posted on 08/07/2009 10:35:19 AM PDT by piytar (Take back the language: Obama axing Chrystler dealers based on political donations is REAL fascism!)
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To: J40000

They CANNOT use these people to do this!

Sorry but they are using these Nazi SS Union Thugs to do this!

From Drudge: “AFL-CIO head: ‘We want your help to organize major unions to counter the right-wing ‘Tea Party Patriots’”
They have already started to assault anyone who wants to protect our freedom at the meeting and since Hitler was a left wing Democrat it is normal.


16 posted on 08/07/2009 10:37:42 AM PDT by YOUGOTIT (I will always be a Soldier)
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To: J40000

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” — BH0


17 posted on 08/07/2009 10:39:32 AM PDT by green pastures (Soylent green? More like solvent green: health care reform to kill folks and 'save' social security.)
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To: I Buried My Guns

This is from their playbook. Here is a summary of what they are going to try to do to silence us:
1) bring more people to events than we do;
2) arrive earlier than we do and sit up front to be very visible to cameras;
3) study venue staging ahead of time to plan strategy
4) be more visible than we are and situate their signs where cameras are;
5) assign 3-5 people to approach each reporter to “shape the narrative;”
6) interrupt us and “refocus” the meeting;
7) don’t debate us and prep their side with questions;
8) repetition of their talking points is key to their strategy;
9) organize their own town hall meetings and choose a venue that is difficult for us to attend; put protesters in the back; make us submit questions and select the questions to be asked; collect all signs and leaflets that are not the ones they provided;
10) assign people to greet reporters and enter and leave the meeting with them to minimize the chances we will have to speak to the reporters.


18 posted on 08/07/2009 10:40:12 AM PDT by Melian ("An unexamined life is not worth living." ~Socrates)
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To: Quaker

“If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated.” - George Orwell, 1984


19 posted on 08/07/2009 10:42:36 AM PDT by green pastures (Soylent green? More like solvent green: health care reform to kill folks and 'save' social security.)
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To: Quaker

A union thug tries that with me and they will get a 2x4 upside their head. I don’t care how burly these thugs think they are, I will not sit idly by and allow these goons to become the enforcers for the Thought Police.


20 posted on 08/07/2009 10:55:27 AM PDT by Azzurri
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