Posted on 07/31/2009 8:00:40 AM PDT by Indy Pendance
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A group of retirees who refused to leave Sen. Dianne Feinstein's West Los Angeles office until she talked to them about health care reform has been arrested.
Los Angeles police Sergeant Rich Brunson said Thursday that at least eight people were being taken into custody and would likely be booked for trespassing and released.
Cate Engel, a spokeswoman for the group California Alliance for Retired Americans, says the activists - all between 55 and 87 years old - wanted to talk to Feinstein about strengthening Medicare and using the program as a model for health reform.
The group arrived at Feinstein's office around noon and refused to leave her conference room until their arrest more than six hours later.
A call to the office seeking comment was not answered.
Ummm.. was she even in her LA offices when this happened? I thought I saw her in D.C. footage last night...
Now we've got martyrs in the health care battle!
Geezers will show us the way...
Only the beginning! Pissed off seniors have less to loose. Anyway, you get better food and health care in jail.
Off to re-education camp for these old fogies.
Geezers Rock!!!!!!!!
i was thinking the same thing ... this has public relations disaster written all over it. If President Bush were still in office the MSM would have been on it like white on rice nothing but crickets from the MSM now though, can’t embarrass Beloved Leader
Why are the races of the seniors and the cops missing?
Were they profiled as bitter clingers?
the govt is not interested in senior health care. they want to give us end of life information. they want you to pay social security benes in and Not collect.
They better speak up, and soon.
Otherwise, they will get counseling instead of medical care,
and a six month wait for treatment that would have saved their lives.
Sounds like the police acting “stupidly.” (Is ‘stupidly’ even a real word?)
Rather than call the Senator they called the cops.
This could have been handled so much better.
Get arrested for the cause.
It makes the news!
I fear, it’s a done deal.
And people like my in-laws, who think this is marvy but have big costly diseases, will be snowed on meds and gone.
I have a libinlaw approaching 70.
I told her this program would kill her in the near future.
She denied it, and kept stating how it will be wonderful to have free care.
Call me optimistic, but I dont see the SRM or Congress convincing seniors that mandatory end-of-life counseling every 5 years (annually for your chronically ill in laws) is such a great govt benefit.
Nonethless, you might tell them you are considering investing in the next growth sector of the senior health industry- govt-run Hospice care.
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