Posted on 02/22/2017 11:11:46 AM PST by No_More_Harkin
MAQUOKETA, Iowa -- The national trend of Republican lawmakers facing angry crowds of constituents arrived in Iowa today.
Tuesday afternoon Sen. Joni Ernst sat through a 45 minute town hall meeting in Maquoketa. After taking her final question the crowd showered her with boos and chants of "Do your job."
(Excerpt) Read more at whotv.com ...
Democrats: emotional (read that, righteous indignation)
Republicans: angry (read that, no justification whatsoever)
Attendees at these meetings should have to prove they’re constituents to weed out leftist interlopers.
Exactly. Set up an entry control point at least 50’ from the building and check IDs there. No ID, no entry... period.
exactly
stop having these town halls for paid protestors to get media attention
You'd think these guys would know that.
It begs the question. Are they really constituents? Are they from Iowa? Maybe some...
They are just vile in any case. Sen. Ernst was going to have a roundtable on Veterans affairs, she was a member of the Iowa National Guard. Stuff needs to get done, and these people show up and make a mess of things.
They should investigate where these folks are from, and whether they are being paid, and send them a W2 and the rest of it. So long as the lefties can weaponize government agencies, maybe the anarchists could use a big ole bite a that $hit sandwich they’ve been serving up for so many years.
Audit their asses. Whatever else they can think of. The time to play nice with these individuals ended a LONG time ago, they’ve been pulling this BS for decades. It needs to stop.
This is just like stealing votes. These guys come home to discuss things with their constituents and they don’t get that chance. These people steal time just like they steal votes.
Check voter lists for the district, those get first entry, check ID to make sure they live in the district.
What did they mean by “Do your job”? Sounds like discontented Republicans to me, but I couldn’t tell either from the video or the extremely short article who they were or what they wanted.
You’d be wrong.
My thoughts exactly!
Lots of evidence of astroturf:
https://twitter.com/townhallproject (see location, also GIF of Obama saying Thank You)
Sorry, but they sure don’t look like liberal leftists to me. They look like folks who have come in off the farm and Trump supporters who want Congress to get off their a$$es and start forwarding bills that he can sign.
THIS!!
Ticketed entry, tickets based on showing voter ID from that district
Bought and paid for by George “Sore-ass” Soros.
The Left got the GOP town hall schedules and is transporting their foot soldiers out to attend them, whether “local residents” or not.
The GOP should start making them “by invitation only” with invites given out only by registered GOPers to their friends and neighbors. Why? Since the Left is trying to stack the deck in these “public” events, it is actually more dishonest to the general public to let them get away with it and set the tone.
How do you know any of them were? Assuming you were there or heard her entire speech, what was it she said that drew the outcry at the end?
Which takes me back to my original comment: what did she say or didn't say that may have angered those veterans?
I correct my previous statement. After watching two different videos, it’s apparent that there were agitators in the back of the hall that were creating the problem. I apologize........
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In other words, the founders had intended for citizens to rely on the wide, 10th Amendment-protected powers of their state governments, not the constitutionally limited powers of the feds, for serving the needs of the people where domestic issues are concerned.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons, our property, our reputation and religious freedom [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801.
But by complaining, “do your job,” to their elected representative in the limited power federal government, these Iowa patriots are basically barking up the wrong tree. They are inadvertently helping to unconstitutionally expand the powers of the already unconstitutionally big federal government.
In fact, note that the Founding States had given the power to vote for federal senators uniquely to the state legislatures (1.3.1). The idea was for the Senate to be the voice of the state legislatures in Congress, state legislatures expecting the Senate to kill house Bills that not only stole state powers, but also stole state revenues uniquely associated with those powers as evidence by the excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions above.
But the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, that amendment giving ordinary voters the power to vote for federal senators, has effectively repealed the whole Constitution as evidenced by the crowd’s “do your job,” the crowd arguably symbolic of inexcusably widespread ignorance of the fed’s constitutionally limited powers.
If the professional progressives and their useful travelers can’t get twice that many shouters (including some real vets) in Maquoketa, they aren’t trying. It’s a short, four-lane drive from Dubuque, the Quad Cities and Clinton, and not much longer from Cedar Rapids (throw in CR’s loonier doppelganger, Iowa City). “’Quokety” isn’t nearly as nutty as the union/university/urbanite enclaves within an hour and a half.
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