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Arkansas Ross, Mike Telephone Town Hall Meeting12/14/2009   7:00 PMPhone: 877-269-7289 PIN: 14573NA, NA Indiana Souder, Mark Telephone Town Hall Meeting12/15/2009   7:30 PM888-559-4668NA, NA Maryland Edwards, Donna Coffee/Discussion12/19/2009   8:30 AMMayorga Coffee8040 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring Coffee/Discussion12/19/2009   10:30 AMDigital Beanery10258 Lake Arbor Way, Mitchellville Telephone Town Hall Meeting12/15/2009   7:15 PMSign up on website http://donnaedwards.house.gov/index.htmlNA, NA New York Murphy, Scott Meet and Greet with Constituents12/14/2009   9:20 AMAdirondack General Store899 East Shore Drive, Adirondack (Town of Horicon) South Carolina Spratt, John Telephone Healthcare Town Hall Meeting12/15/2009   7:00 PMCall office to sign up 202-225-5501NA, NA Washington Murray, Patty Telephone Town Hall with AARP12/16/2009   11:30 AMRegister at http://aarpwatelephonemtgwithsenatormurray.eventbrite.com/NA, NA

Arizona Kirkpatrick, Ann Telephone Town Hall Meeting12/8/2009   5:10 PMNANA, NA California Garamendi, John Town Hall Meeting12/5/2009   10:00 AMSolano County Supervisors Chambers675 Texas Street, Fairfield Town Hall Meeting12/5/2009   1:00 PMAntioch City HallThird Street and H Street, Antioch Town Hall Meeting12/5/2009   4:00 PMWalnut Creek City Hall1666 North Main Street, Walnut Creek Sherman, Brad Town Hall Meeting12/6/2009   3:30 PMJohn Burroughs High School1920 W Clark Ave, Burbank Thompson, Mike Telephone Town Hall Meeting12/9/2009   7:00 PMPhone: 877-269-7289 PIN: 13293NA, NA Colorado Perlmutter, Ed District Office Open House12/5/2009   11:00 AMA/B Atrium First Floor12600 W. Colfax Ave, Lakewood Florida Posey, Bill Town Hall Meeting12/6/2009   2:00 PMLevelz Nightclub4250 W New Haven Ave, Melbourne Kansas Moran,...

Union Violence: An African-American is beaten up at a political rally by thugs shouting racial epithets, and after three months his assailants are charged with the moral equivalent of jaywalking. Why wasn't it a hate crime? The beating of Kenneth Gladney by people wearing the purple shirts of the Service Employees International Union outside a Missouri health care town hall meeting three months ago met all the classic definitions of a hate crime. Time was, the beating of a black man outside a protest rally, and the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators, would be headline news. Gladney was working...

California Royce, Edward Town Hall Meeting11/30/2009   5:00 PM Orange County office1110 E. Chapman Ave., Suite 207, Orange Sherman, Brad Town Hall Meeting11/30/2009   5:00 PMJohn Burroughs High School1920 W Clark Ave, Burbank Town Hall Meeting12/6/2009   3:30 PMJohn Burroughs High School1920 W Clark Ave, Burbank Kansas Moran, Jerry Listening Tour Discussion11/30/2009   11:30 AM Moran will be walking down Main Street and visiting businessesMain Street, Scott City Listening Tour Discussion11/30/2009   1:30 PM Moran will be walking down Main Street and visiting businessesMain Street, Dighton Listening Tour Town Hall Meeting12/5/2009   3:30 PMSouthwest Plains Regional Service Center - West Conference Room900 West Lark Avenue, Sublette Maryland Hoyer, Steny Telephone Town...

Guest speaker Dr. Clifford L. Fry will speak at the Town Hall on Health Care sponsored by the Harris County (Houston, TX) Conservative Congressional Campaign. Dr. Fry is the Executive Vice President of RRC, Inc. an economic policy consulting group in College Station, Texas. A native Texan, Dr. Fry received his Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University in 1972. He is a former Chairman of the Department of Finance at the University of Houston. He has also published a variety of research papers in leading finance and economics journals. In addition to his position at RRC, Dr. Fry has...

California Royce, Edward Town Hall Meeting11/30/2009   5:00 PM Orange County office1110 E. Chapman Ave., Suite 207, Orange Sherman, Brad Town Hall Meeting11/30/2009   5:00 PMJohn Burroughs High School1920 W Clark Ave, Burbank Connecticut Larson, John Town Hall Meeting11/24/2009   Time UnknownGoodwin College Auditorium, River CampusOne Riverside Drive, East Hartford Kansas Brownback, Sam Healthcare Town Hall Meeting11/24/2009   1:00 PMCentral Olathe City Hall100 E Santa Fe Street, Olathe Moran, Jerry Listening Tour Town Hall Meeting11/23/2009   11:30 AMWilmore Community Building Corner of Railroad and Taft, Wilmore Listening Tour Town Hall Meeting11/23/2009   1:30 PMThe People's Bank117 S. Main, Medicine Lodge Listening Tour Discussion11/30/2009   11:30 AM Moran will be walking down Main Street...

CARNEY ANNOUNCES TOWN HALL MEETINGS Four Listening Tour Town Hall meetings to be held Monday and Tuesday All Invited to Attend Washington, D.C.—Congressman Christopher P. Carney has announced four Listening Tour Town Hall Meetings for Monday and Tuesday to be held in Susquehanna, Pike, Wyoming and Bradford counties. He will be available to discuss issues affecting our community, including actions Congress is taking to reform our health care system, help our economy and support our veterans. In addition, Congressman Carney will have staff on hand to help with casework issues, including veterans’ benefits, Social Security and Medicare payments. “Listening to...

VOLUNTEERS NEDED – Compiling List of Upcoming Town Hall Meetings It seems that many Democratic members of congress will try to avoid attending town hall meetings with their constituents over the holiday recess so they do not have to endure the public fury and ridicule they experienced at these meetings over the Summer, and if they do hold town halls they will try to keep it quiet so only their supporters know when and where they will be. With this in mind I am currently creating a list of ALL town hall meetings that are being scheduled for all members...

It was a town hall, but this time Barack Obama was not in Iowa or New Hampshire. There were no hay bales, no bunting and no activists with questions about universal health care, clean coal or legalizing marijuana. This forum, after all, was being held in a nation controlled by the Communist Party. Instead of being greeted by voters mulling their options, Obama on Monday met with several hundred well-dressed, attentive and relentlessly on-message students, handpicked by Chinese authorities for the occasion. They listened attentively, nodding in agreement at some of his answers and laughing at his jokes. Most of...

U.S. President Barack Obama has held an unprecedented question and answer session with Chinese students in Shanghai - China's commercial capital. Mr. Obama pushed the importance of freedom of information, while at the same time calling for greater cooperation between Washington and Beijing. This was the first town hall meeting by a U.S. President in China. And it amounted to a delicate balancing act for Mr. Obama. He opened the session with university students by striking a professorial tone, talking about the history of relations between Washington and Beijing, and the importance of working together to tackle global challenges. Mr....

Senator gets an earful on economy, healthcare. BY SUZANNE ADAMS KINGMAN - U.S. Sen. John McCain was treated to a packed house of feisty Mohave County residents Friday afternoon at the County Administration Building. Most of the comments centered on the economy and healthcare, but McCain also spoke of the troops, the Fort Hood shooting and Social Security. "We Republicans have to reestablish our conservative principles to the American people," McCain said. "I see a degree of activism, a degree of involvement and a degree of anger out there that I've never seen before in the years that I've served....

The auditorium at Kofa High School was packed to the rafters Thursday night by hundreds of people who wanted to hear what Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had to say about health care, and the current situation in Afghanistan. After a brief opening statement, members of the audience were eager to field questions and get some answers. "I love to listen. This is my favorite. I would rather be at town hall meetings than at anything else," McCain said. "Listen to them, listen to the people, that's what it is supposed to be all about. I tried to make my remarks...

Here is a video report on Florida Democrat Rep. Allen Boyd's Town Hall Meeting held in Panama City last night, where about half his audience decided to walk out in frustration over what they said was his unwillingness to give any straight answers to questions. Boyd had postponed the Town Hall Meeting from August. He did vote against the Health Care Bill passed by the House of Representatives this past Saturday. . . . (VIDEO)

In the battle over sex education, Planned Parenthood claims the high ground in providing accurate information and protecting reproductive health. Their homepage states, “We deliver comprehensive and medically accurate information that empowers women, men, teens, and families to make informed choices and lead healthy lives.” As a physician who has spent hundreds of hours with young people with sexually transmitted infections, I’m on a one-woman mission to expose the falsehood of those claims. Planned Parenthood’s sexual health education is not comprehensive or medically accurate; to the contrary, this eminent, federally funded organization endangers lives by withholding critical biological truths. Consider...

BlowOutCongress Live Online TownHall Meeting Tuesday, November 10 7:30 p.m. CT

Republicans will enact the health reform proposal they unveiled this week if they take back the House, Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) pledged Thursday. Appearing on the Republican National Committee's (RNC) online town hall, Boehner and other House and Senate leaders said they sensed momentum behind GOP efforts to halt Democratic health reform legislation, which is set for a vote on Saturday. "If we get in the majority after the election, I plan to enact our healthcare plan," Boehner said during the town hall.

This afternoon I am invited to participate in a townhall meeting conference call. Wanted to solicit ideas from my Freerepublic friends and what I should ask the Senator.

U.S. Sen. John McCain said Friday that Americans are in the toughest times he can remember and that President Barack Obama hasn't brought the change in Washington that he promised. The Arizona Republican spoke at a town hall Friday to a couple hundred people at Mesa's Central Christian Church, reiterating many of the same arguments he's made in recent similar events. McCain took to the stage with standing ovations and an aim to address key issues affecting Arizonans, such as the economy, health care reform, the war in Afghanistan, among other things.

MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Sen. John McCain says Americans are in the toughest times he can remember and that President Barack Obama hasn't brought the change in Washington that he promised. McCain spoke at a town hall Friday to a couple hundred people in a Mesa church, reiterating many of the same points he's made in recent similar events.

Democrats are getting closer to agreeing on a health care reform bill, but there are still town hall meetings held across the country where people can go to voice their opinions on the issue. At times, the meetings have been heated. On October 30 and 31, Senator John McCain will discuss issues affecting Arizonans, including the economy, health care reform, and the war in Afghanistan in Town Hall meetings. Town Hall Meetings: Oct. 30, 2:00 pm Central Christian Church 933 N. Lindsay Rd., Mesa, AZ Oct. 31, 10:00am Skyway Church of the West Valley 14900 W. Van Buren St., Goodyear,...

Conservatives are sick and tired of being taken for granted, misrepresented, and talked down to by the same "elite" Republicans in Washington who hopelessly screwed everything up during the Bush years. Everybody knows exactly whom we're talking about here. The same snobby, elitist, stuffed shirt, squishy, poll-obsessed Country Club Republicans who went to D.C., forgot who put them there, wasted the incredible opportunity they had to change this country for the better, and are now pointing the finger at everyone except themselves for their mistakes. Here are five messages for those people: We're not going back to the Bush years:...

As the health care debate raged on across the country, U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise continued to attack proposals supported by President Barack Obama at a town hall event held Monday in Slidell, pushing instead an alternative bill to end frivolous medical lawsuits and create health care competition across state lines. "I oppose this bill," he said to applause from the more than 200 who attended the event at Slidell Junior High School. "I strongly think we need to make reforms to health care in this country but I think we need to be very careful to fix the things that...

Better late than never:Democratic Rep. Dina Titus will do this week what most Nevada lawmakers ably avoided during the long hot summer of Tea Party protests: She will host an open town hall forum on health care on Monday. The freshmen congresswoman had publicly promised her constituents in August that she would return to her Southern Nevada district in fall with a full-fledged forum. Titus is keeping good on her word with an event from 7-8 p.m. on Monday at Temple Ner Tamid, 55 North Valle Verde Drive in Henderson. Yes, questions will be taken and answered.Good for Rep. Titus...

Here is video from Obama's town hall meeting today where he took a question from a little boy who asked Obama "why do people hate you? They supposed to love you." (Video)

If there's anything Lindsey Graham does for the Republican party, it's that he reminds his constituents that political principles are more important than winning. In these videos, Graham simply has no shame as he continues to defy principle for compromise in the name of "winning." Since when did morality become all about winning? Regardless, the last time I checked Mr. Moderate John McCain didn't exactly excite voters in last year's presidential race other than to vote against Democrats. Honestly, I'd rather have one Republican in office who actually stood behind the Constitution than a super majority made up of two...

(snip) McCain took five questions about health care, and heard from several other people, including one who challenged his conservative credentials and several who said they deeply opposed Obama policies and expansion of the government into health care or other facets of personal life. (snip) The only note of disagreement came from Gabriela Mercer, a naturalized citizen from Mexico who repeatedly challenged McCain’s conservative credentials, saying he has not represented Arizona on immigration issues. McCain defended his record and said he recently won an award for tight-fisted spending. (snip)

Please consider taking time out to attend either one of these two simultaneous Town Halls across the Delaware River. 1. BOB CASEY SIDEWALK TOWN HALL – Senator Casey (D-PA) did not hold one August Town Hall in this region. Let's tell him what we think of Obamacare and his recent vote on Acorn funding at our own Sidewalk Town Hall. When: Friday, October 9, 12 Noon – 2 PM Where: 2000 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 2. BOB MENENDEZ SIDE WALK TOWN HALL – Senator Menendez (D-NJ) also skipped the August Town Halls and recently voted against the Bunning Amendment to...

Here is video of a raucous Town Hall Meeting at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood, New York, where Democrat Congressman Steve Israel faced a skeptical crowd as he tried to make the case for the Democrats' Health Care Plan. Israel was asked a simple question: "Why can't we just fix the part of health care that is broken, when what is needed is tort reform?" The crowd went wild at the question! Rep. Israel then condescendingly tried to lecture the crowd about why tort reform is not a good thing! The crowd remained raucous throughout his attempted answer. ....

Sen. John McCain will hold a town hall on health care from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Sahuarita school district auditorium, 350 W. Sahuarita Road. Doors open at noon. Parking is available behind the school district administration building, whose driveway is west of the varsity baseball field. Parking also is available off the driveway to the middle school and primary school, which is the first driveway east of Rancho Sahuarita Boulevard. The format and other details will be made available Tuesday, McCain’s office said.

The congressman began the rare meeting with voters in his district by apologizing for being late. He had taken a wrong turn in Jackson, GA, on his way to Covington. Wrong turns by politicians in Washington are becoming a common occurrence, and no one in the primarily conservative crowd seemed to be surprised. Marshall then admitted that his lack of direction may have come from the fact that, out of the 100 town hall meetings he granted over the last two years, only four have been done in Newton County, the conservative portion of his district. That leaves 96 meetings...

In the latest incident of violent rhetoric against the president, an anonymous user of Facebook posted a poll on Saturday asking if Barack Obama should be assassinated. Administrators of the online social networking website took down the poll on Monday, but not before it received 730 responses to the question, “Should Obama be killed?” The identity of the poll’s author is not known, nor are the responses to the poll, which was posted using third-party software unaffiliated with Facebook itself. The incident came to light after the Secret Service received a tip and contacted Facebook. Threatening the life of the...

Rep. John Carter (R-Tx), a member of the GOP House Leadership and a former judge, informed us in a blogger conference call that he will be hosting a virtual townhall tonight at 7:30 p.m. Eastern and will be taking questions from members of the public. CSPAN will broadcast floor speeches covering the status of certain legislation on issues such as ACORN hearings, Obama's Czars, auditing the Federal Reserve, and the Democrat abuses in running the House of Representatives. After that, Rep. Carter will return to his office, fire up the web-cam and take questions from the public by email or...

Candidate for KY US Senate Dr. Rand Paul held a "Town Hall" meeting on the topic of Health Care. Although some questions from the audience delved into other unrelated topics. In the meeting he tried to get across his ideas for free-martket solutions to reforming Healthcare. Video of the event can be found here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2231277

"A National Townhall on Health Care Reform" examines the moral, ethical, and financial dangers of President Obama's health care plan. Join our stellar lineup of Congressional leaders and policy experts as they dissect the dangers inherent in the President's proposed plan, and answer your questions on the President's plan and some alternative approaches.

This woman commented on my blog twice because she was offended I incorrectly labelled her a LaRouche Democrat. This a woman with a laundry list of left-wing lunacy long enough to circle the equator - and has made the Boston-area press because of it. But she's all bent out of shape 'cuz some little-known blog accidentally affiliates her with the LaRouchers. Whatever ...

This is footage of Dan Rostenkowski when trying to pass the "Catastrophic Health Act of 1989". I don't know if these people were called any of the names that we are being called now but these old folks were definatly upset. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qre7DzEtxyc&feature=fvw

Free People Need No Leader Throughout the summer’s town halls and protests, a passing question has been raised again and again by the media and their consorts: who is this movement’s “leader?� The assumption behind the question reveals something interesting about the questioners’ perspective. To ask this question, the questioner must believe that average people require a “leader� to tell them what they do and don’t want, what they must or mustn’t do and where they must or mustn’t do it. While it’s certainly true that we who resist federal intrusion into our every action must have representatives, free people...

The bounce from Barack Obama’s speech last week to Congress continues to amplify … to Obama’s detriment. Rasmussen now reports that opposition to ObamaCare has reached its highest level yet, at 56%, while only 43% support it. Majorities now believe that health care would get worse and more expensive under Obama’s overhaul of the American health-care system: Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide now oppose the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the highest level of opposition yet measured and includes 44% who are Strongly Opposed. Just 43% now favor the proposal, including 24% who...

The San Diego County Sheriff's Department Tuesday responded to 10News' report about a new sonic weapon known as a Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD. The technology has been used in Iraq to control insurgents, and now it is in the sheriff's department's possession.On Monday, members of the American Civil Liberties Union spoke with 10News, and they expressed outrage that local law enforcement had the device and that they had brought it to recent town hall meetings in case things got out of hand. Kevin Keenan, of the ACLU, said, "We think that local law enforcement shouldn't be using military...

United States of America- All across the nation yesterday town hall meetings were bombarded with protesters wishing to express their displeasure with the presidents agenda for health care reform as well as his general disdain of individual liberty and property. Without the benefit of an audience with the head of the executive branch most of this anger was directed against local congressman. Despite this effort, however, many experts wonder how effective these demonstrations will be. This substantial query, it must be noted here, is in hard deference to the quality of these protesters. Many experts in the field are skeptical...

 

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Whatever your philosophy, there was something for almost everyone in Sen. Lindsey Graham’s performance Sunday at a town hall meeting at the University of South Carolina that drew more than 350. “I’m a free-market guy with a heart,” said Graham, a South Carolina Republican serving his second term in the Senate. Graham — using simple language and folksy stories about his upbringing, in which government handouts helped his struggling family — explained for almost two hours his complex political views on equally complex political issues.

Did the August town hall protests have an effect on Congress? Enough so that at least one Blue Dog Democrat admitted it convinced him to oppose the public option in the health-care overhaul bill. Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR) announced his opposition this morning, crediting his constituents for his moment of clarification: Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), the Blue Dog congressman who battled with Democratic Party leaders for much of July before reaching an agreement on health-care reform legislation, said Tuesday that he could no longer back the government-insurance option included in the bill he voted for before the congressional recess. “I...

WASHINGTON -- The armies of "tea party" conservatives who packed town-hall meetings last month to oppose President's Obama's $1 trillion government healthcare plan are bringing their protest movement to the Capitol Saturday to urge its defeat. Those who thought the hundreds of April 15 tax-day rallies across the country were a flash-in-the-pan phenomenon had better think again. It is a grassroots movement that has been gathering strength ever since, fueled anew by pending bills in Congress to enact a historic expansion of the government's power over the nation's private healthcare system. The tea party's march on Washington will come three...

Here is video of a man being booed when he asked a question in Spanish at a town hall meeting. (Watch Video)

inspired by the DHS Report, and angry Townhall Mobs.

Here is video of a man named Scott Weber, who confronted Democrat Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersy at a Town Hall Meeting. He is interviewed about his experience on Fox & Friends. Weber's told Pascrell that the "Public Option" would lead to "socialized medicine" and is "positively un-American." Weber said the crowd was so raucous because Pascrell and other speakers had droned on, killing all the time, and the people attending became very restless. . . . (VIDEO)

Rep. says to journalist student "This is my town hall meeting, I set the rules."