Posted on 08/07/2009 8:15:59 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
The audience was loud but civil—and their anxiety over health reform was very real.
As he entered the auditorium of the Mardela Middle and High School on Tuesday, a surprised Frank Kratovil waded through a sea of constituents. The first-term Democratic congressman had been told by aides that maybe two or three dozen residents would attend the “Congress in Your Corner” town-hall event in this Eastern Shore town of about 360 people. Instead, more than 250 people showed up.
The crowd repeatedly burst into wild cheering, but not for Mr. Kratovil. The cheers were for residents who gave the congressman a piece of their mind over what’s happening in Washington.
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There has been enough of these townhall meetings, in my mind, to make it hard to believe that this Healthcare bill, at least in it’s present form, could ever pass. This is a national phenomena. Congress would have to be suicidal to pass this monstrosity.
What is his district like? 250 people in a town of 360!
I am suprised they did not bring the tar and feathers.
I agree completely with you!!!
Kratovil is one of the most endangered dems in the country. He won a close race only because the rino (who lost to a conservative in the primary) endorsed him.
No mercy!! Pour it on. WE have won but we must now push the enemy into the sea and salt their cities so nothing will grow for a hundred years!!!
Do NOT ease up. This is what they are hoping. One of Alinsky’s rules is to always keep the pressure on.
Wow. Thanks for that info.
I'm so proud of the people I am seeing in the videos of townhall meetings.
maybe he should have just told those constituents to get the hell out of the way!
What is not surprising is that some congresspeople are learning from earlier meetings and hearing what is happening in other districts...
That they are going to screen people coming into the events towards the end of the recess period and keep those of us with opposing positions out of their “townhalls”...
Gene Green (D-TX-29) has been public about this new strategy...Even though he is not my representative, he is still a Texas delegate, and I am an American...So if he wants to discriminate against me becuase I have a difference of opinion, then I believe if I cannot attend a future event of his, I believe it might be interewsting to lay a lawsuit on him for his discriminatory practices...
We’ll just have to see what happens I suppose...
Wow, I’m wondering if this was in this morning’s WSJ or Monday’s. Mine is crumpled on the floor of my office ... across town.
Fifteen months.
Kratovil is one of the most endangered dems in the country. He won a close race only because the rino (who lost to a conservative in the primary) endorsed him
I’m more than ready to vote against him.
I hope you’re right.
However, most of the reps are saying it’s not really their constituents and they’re going to vote for the monstrosity come hell or high water.
Frank Kratovil serves a socially conservative rural/suburban district, and is a good instance of the Democratic party enlisting an ostensiblly conservative, and well presented candidate in the Heath Shuler mode, hence the blue-dog label.
Among the many twists here, he can listen to his constituents who I guarantee, regardless of their own personal healthcare situation, are overwhelmingly very very wary of centralized government administration of healthcare.
Or he can go back to Washington DC and be arm-twisted by Rahm Emmanuel, Pelosi, and the Party, with promises of support, political security through public spin, and conviction that this bill is the "solution".
Putting one's self in that position, the arguments for the freemarket, distributed solutions need to be powerful enough to counter the conceptually degenerate (even tho the bill is a thousand pages) path of centralization with which he is going to be battered (from the Party).
Unlike the Senate, the House cannot easily muster the closed conspiratorial decisions on contentious issues, so Frank Kratovil's vote is going to be very representative of his imagination, good sense, and loyalties.
I am looking for some photos of these town hall meetings. I want to see the swastika’s myself.
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