The event took place Thursday in VA's 11th Cong. District (near DC, but not in it, contrary to what C-Span says above), represented by Cong. Tom Davis, a Republican who is pretty moderate, but may have difficulty holding his seat as the district is turning more liberal and Democratic.
The organizing group, Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, is now the group associated with John Bruhns, an antiwar Iraq Vet. (Apparently, he really was in Iraq, but I can't verify that and I'm always cautious about that description since we know that some other antiwar people have falsely claimed combat service.)
Background info, the thread with an advance announcement of this:
Burke, VA Freep Opportunity: Moonbats At It Again-Town Hall 8/23/07, 2-3pm, RINO Tom Davis To Attend
AfterDowningStreet (aka Impeachment Moonbats) ^ | Aug. 21, 2007 | Faceless Moonbat named "Chip"
Posted on 08/21/2007 4:50:28 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
Apparently the Moonbats have gotten an agreement from Virginia RINO, Tom Davis, to attend (and speak at) a Moonbat Town Hall Meeting in Burke, VA on Thursday, August 23rd from 2:00 until 3:00 pm.
The Moonbats hosting this event call themselves "Americans Against the Escalation in Iraq."
At this meeting they intend to ask questions of Davis, "regarding the Iraq war and Rep. Davis' rubberstamping of Bush's Iraq policies despite stating many times that he is against the war."
Best news of all is that they have invited you Virginians who may be interested, to attend the meeting!
Background on the moderator Bruhns
Bruhns previously was a campaign aide with the John Edwards campaign and was involved in VoteVets.org, apparently a George Soros operation. He is now with this Americans Against Escalation in Iraq group. When with the Edwards campaign, Bruhns was defending Edwards from criticism over Edwards' calls for people to use Memorial Day events to protest the war, even as Bruhns purported to disagree with that Edwards' strategy.
Shortly thereafter, Bruhns said that he was no longer associated with Edwards, but it is unclear whether his leaving the campaign had anything to do with the Memorial Day problem.
Bruhns had a tense run-in, summarized below, with FReepers when Bruhns was with the Code Pink psych-op demonstration against wounded troops at Walter Reed in 2005. More recently, he has complained about the accuracy of FR threads describing his activities.
One of the below threads identified Bruhns as being a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and he responded by denying that, but he was said to be a IVAW member in web promotions for leftist events that he attended. Considering also that he understated his participation with Code Pink's Walter Reed activities, it is unclear if he was misidentifed as IVAW or he is denying membership in the group because he now finds his prior activities embarassing as his Code Pink-supporting actions are.
Relative to the more recent online disputes with him, the following threads are relevant:
How Many Times Did John Bruhns Stand With Code Pink At Walter Reed?
Multiple Freepers' and bloggers' cameras and audio recorders | May 29, 2007
Posted on 05/29/2007 8:45:58 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
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September 16, 2005:
On this date, this "same night" thread documents Bruhns' attempts to start a fight with Freepers. On his third week (verified via photo searches on various sources) with the Code Pinkos' WRAMC protest, Bruhns stormed across the street, from the Code Pinko side of the street and started spewing profanities at bmwcyle and others (caught on audio tape by a Freeper):
Then he made a big show of pulling up his sleeve:
and revealing a USMC tattoo:
September 16, 2005 official AAR thread, posted 9/21/05.
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CLICK HERE FOR THE REST OF THAT THREAD.
John Edwards Spokesman Protested with Code Pink Traitors at Walter Reed
Thursday, May 17, 2007 | Kristinn
Posted on 05/17/2007 3:17:20 PM PDT by kristinn
John Edwards spokesman, Iraq war veteran John Bruhns, has been defending the Edwards presidential campaign from criticism over Edwards' call for people to protest the Iraq war at Memorial Day parades.
Appearing via telephone on the Fox News Channel's 'Big Story with John Gibson', Bruhns said that the Edwards campaign is backing away from the call to publicly protest the war at parades and is instead asking supporters to send care packages and to reflect on the war.
While Bruhns said that he himself did not support Edwards' call to protest at Memorial Day parades, he failed to mention that he has protested the war at a similarly hallowed setting: Walter Reed Army Medical Center where grieviously wounded Iraq and Afghan vets struggle to recover from their war wounds.
Bruhns spent several Friday nights outside the main gate to Walter Reed in 2005 with the terrorist supporting Marxist front group Code Pink after the group became notorious for taunting wounded soldiers with signs like "Maimed for a Lie" and "Enlist Here and Die for Halliburton."
Bruhns is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. IVAW called our soldiers in Iraq war criminals in testimony before the World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul, Turkey in 2005. The tribunal endorsed the terrorists in Iraq and their killing of American soldiers.
Bruhns is currently featured in a pro-surrender ad by Votevets.org that was directed by Oliver Stone.
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