Posted on 02/06/2017 8:44:25 AM PST by Theoria
For weeks, a swelling group has been showing up every Friday here at the local office of Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen to demand that he hold a town-hall meeting to answer its concerns about his fellow Republicans’ plan to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
After weeks without an answer, the congressman’s staff replied that he would be too busy, that such gatherings took considerable planning and that just finding a meeting place could be tough.
So the group, NJ 11th for Change, secured venues in all four counties that Mr. Frelinghuysen represents for times during the congressional recess this month — and constituents plan to show up even if he does not.
With congressional phone lines overloaded and district offices mobbed across the country, it’s beginning to look a lot like 2009.
That year, horrified by a new president they saw as a radical, activists took to the streets under the Tea Party banner to protest government bailouts, then stormed forums held by congressional Democrats to fight legislation that would become the Affordable Care Act.
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Problem solved.
Good. Deem them domestic terrorists.
Searching sites that list 501(c)3 groups does not turn them up. I suspect they are not organized as a legal entity, a popular tactic that makes it difficult for enemies to attack.
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