Posted on 08/23/2013 4:33:30 PM PDT by Lakeshark
We arrived precisely at one o'clock, the scheduled time for the meeting, following a giant Harley decorated with American flags in to the parking lot. We were surprised to have to wait in line for ten minutes to get in to the hall as they had underestimated the turn out. There was a member of some lefty alliance with a table sporting enviro-weenie stuff that we (conveniently for them) had to pass by, but once we got in it was standing room only, about two hundred of us standing. Dr. Benishek was giving a canned summary of his activities when we got in, we missed most of it, all but five minutes. He spoke about a few generic things, then the questions began, questions that you submitted via cards, and were picked randomly. I started to fill one out, but being late into the building, decided not to. As it turned out, the questions I wanted to ask were brought up by others.
It was clear there were some lefties in the group that wanted to heckle, from the applause given to his answers, it was about 90% conservatives there, with any where from 5-10% libs. It got interesting right away with some guy right behind me starting to yell, turning beet red and apoplectic, and yes, the guy was clearly a lefty agitator. Someone next to him asked for the police to come and throw the guy out, one came up to him, and he shut up. We think he slinked out since he was ineffective.
The questions and attitude from the crowd were decent, Dr. B was asked about defunding Obamacare, spineless Republicans, spending, budgeting, illegal immigration, gun control, how to defeat the democrats, and a few other things (like if he could be more bi-partisan, a lefty question).
His answers were generally good, satisfying to most conservatives. The applause was strongest for his answers on illegal immigration, gun control, and the attempts to repeal Obamacare; on these issues he's clearly conservative.
All in all, it was impressive he appeared, he got a clear consensus that his concerned constituents near Traverse City were conservative, not liberal, heck, not even moderate. Most of us were pushing him to the right, the lefties that came were not able to disrupt, thanks to so many conservatives glaring at them.
We came away thankful we had a decent congress critter, Dr. Benishek may not be a firebrand, seems to have a few moderate stances, but he's decent, somewhat conservative in most of his beliefs, and certainly one we will support. If your congress critter has one of these, we highly recommend you go. Chastise them if they are a democrat or a RINO. Support them if they are trying to do a decent job as Dr. Benishek appears to be doing.
He is getting fat as a DC lobbyist. Not shabby for a former cop.
Oh, and nice that he held one. Been a real dearth of meetings this summer. Seems many of our elected representatives don’t want to hear from their constituents.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Why is someone in Illinois commenting about something he knows nothing about?
I think he meant Stupak...
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