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Locals pile into town hall meeting to demand response from Rubio
WSVN-TV ^ | 2/23/17 | Joe Roetz

Posted on 02/24/2017 1:46:27 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

South Florida residents attended a town hall meeting, Thursday, all with the intentions of voicing their grievances about the current administration in Washington D.C.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: astroturfing; snowflakes; vote
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1 posted on 02/24/2017 1:46:27 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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The event was organized by Indivisible Miami, who say they invited Rubio. However, Rubio’s office said they were unaware of any invitation.

Rubio’s office told 7News, “We have been fully accessible and responsive to constituents, and our staff has already met with hundreds of these liberal activists at our offices across Florida. As their manual reveals, their goal is to stage a hostile atmosphere, record themselves booing no matter what is said, and refuse to give up the microphone.”


2 posted on 02/24/2017 1:48:27 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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“Rubio was not present at the event, and a suit jacket was draped over a chair reserved for him.”

Talk to the chair libtards!


3 posted on 02/24/2017 1:49:49 AM PST by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: SoFloFreeper
#FakeNews:

This group of SNOWFLAKES organizes a "town hall", say they've invited Rubio, and then calls the MEDIA to say Rubio isn't showing up!!!

4 posted on 02/24/2017 1:50:57 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Helicondelta

Fake News even has video of Rubio at the airport.... makes it look like he is fleeing from cops.

Pathetic fake news.


5 posted on 02/24/2017 1:57:08 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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Be ready for eight years of this.


6 posted on 02/24/2017 2:19:16 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The first word of the headline is “Locals” and the first words of the article are “South Florida residents”. Do you think they are trying to frame the article to deflect attention from the George Soros-funded astroturfing that is going on?


7 posted on 02/24/2017 2:42:22 AM PST by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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ARE they "locals" ?
8 posted on 02/24/2017 2:46:25 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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This is OFA--hateful Obama's Alinsky tactics: harassing, protesting and pressuring pols w/ rent-a crowd b/c pols are not supporting the losing progressive agenda.

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Demand OFA's non-profit status be removed.

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TALKING POINTS--- An Obama-tied activist group training tens of thousands of agitators to protest President Trump’s policies plans to hit Republican lawmakers supporting those policies even harder this week, when they return home for the congressional recess and hold town hall meetings and other functions.

Organizing for Action, founded by Obama and featured prominently on his new post-presidency website, is distributing a training manual to anti-Trump activists that advises them to bully GOP lawmakers into backing off support for repealing ObamaCare, curbing immigration from high-risk Islamic nations, and building a border wall.

OFA calls on activists to mobilize against Republicans from now until Feb. 26, when “representatives are going to be in their home districts.” The protesters disrupted town halls earlier this month, including one held in Utah by House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, who was confronted by hundreds of angry demonstrators claiming to be his constituents.

The manual, published with OFA partner “Indivisible,” advises protesters to go into halls quietly so as not to raise alarms, and “grab seats at the front of the room but do not all sit together.” Rather, spread out in pairs to make it seem like the whole room opposes the Republican host’s positions. “This will help reinforce the impression of broad consensus.”

It also urges them to ask “hostile” questions — while keeping “a firm hold on the mic” — and loudly boo the the GOP politician if he isn’t “giving you real answers.” “Express your concern [to the event’s hosts] they are giving a platform to pro-Trump authoritarianism, racism, and corruption,” it says.

The goal is to make Republicans, even from safe districts, second-guess their support for the Trump agenda, and to prime “the ground for the 2018 midterms when Democrats retake power.” “Even the safest [Republican] will be deeply alarmed by signs of organized opposition,” the Obama document states, “because these actions create the impression that they’re not connected to their district and not listening to their constituents.”

“Unfavorable exchanges caught on video can be devastating” for Republican lawmakers, it says, when “shared through social media and picked up by local and national media.” After protesters gave MSNBC, CNN and the networks footage of their dust-up with Chaffetz, for example, the outlets ran them continuously, forcing Chaffetz to issue statements defending himself. (hat tip Paul Sperry, NY POST)

MORE HERE--- https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/notmypresident.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=664&h=441&crop=1

9 posted on 02/24/2017 3:01:52 AM PST by Liz (Coulters L a: the MSM's delay in reporting a perp means the less likely its a white Christian)
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Desperation tactics.

During the Obama years, the Democrats lost a net 13 Senate seats, 63 House seats, nine governorships and more than 1,000 state and local elected positions.

It's time to start winning but Democrats think they can win just by stressing their deep goodness over Trump's evil.

Democrats just aren't making the effort to appeal to their natural fun-loving base: like crackheads, the endearing Black Lives Matter and Burqua-wearing sophisticates.

10 posted on 02/24/2017 3:04:45 AM PST by Liz (Coulters L a: the MSM's delay in reporting a perp means the less likely its a white Christian)
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To: MarvinStinson

It was south Florida. They are probably locals, at least in the sense that anyone in south Florida is a “local”. It’s a hotbed of yankee liberalism down there.

I find it interesting that they hold rallies just to record themselves booing. This is what they consider to be serious discourse now.


11 posted on 02/24/2017 3:06:37 AM PST by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

These Liberals had a fake Townhall and the Fake Media covered it.


12 posted on 02/24/2017 3:26:37 AM PST by eaglestar
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Just Google “WSVN News anchors arrested” for a rich history into WSVN and it’s employees.

Rick Sanchez is one of them-DUI Manslaughter


13 posted on 02/24/2017 3:30:00 AM PST by eaglestar
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To: SoFloFreeper

Soros is basically bussing in agitators to agitate agitatedly at these town halls. It’s all fake. Reps would do well to not dignify them, either by acknowledging them or showing up


14 posted on 02/24/2017 3:30:14 AM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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Exactly. The farce is that the south Florida media dutifully follows these snowflakes like obedient dogs. I can tell you that a legitimate grass roots Tea Party spoke up regularly against Obama’s statism. The Tea Party didn’t receive favorable coverage.


15 posted on 02/24/2017 3:33:19 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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If they wanted Rubio to be present, they should have made the event a Foam Party.


16 posted on 02/24/2017 3:35:10 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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I don’t understand why Cubans are not screaming about Obama cutting off the old “make it to shore”...welcome to the USA.


17 posted on 02/24/2017 4:36:38 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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#fakeprotesters...


18 posted on 02/24/2017 4:55:00 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: SoFloFreeper

At some point consevatives are going to have to organize counter protests -if Obama sends 100, conservatives should aend 1000. Know that the Organizer’s plan is send protesters to every event for photo ops..


19 posted on 02/24/2017 5:12:17 AM PST by richardtavor
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Rubio’s staff made an EXCELLENT response to this, calling out the Indivisible activists by exposing their tactics. They don’t want to meet privately with legislators, they want press coverage, so their meltdowns can be televised nationally.

I emailed Senator Rubio to thank him for the way this was handled, even though I am from Pennsylvania. We need to support all our legislators as they continue to take a beating from the left.

Other legislators can take a lesson from how this was handled. I also think all townhalls should require ID to get in, to make sure they are constituents.


20 posted on 02/24/2017 6:20:05 AM PST by Old_Grouch (69 and AARP-free. Monthly FR contributor.)
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