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Disgust and Loathing – Live Report From Congressman Grayson’s So-Called “Town Hall Meeting”
Eyewitness | MB26

Posted on 08/17/2009 7:39:20 PM PDT by MindBender26

Disgust and Loathing – Report From Congressman Grayson’s So-Called “Town Hall Meeting”

I have just returned from Congressman Alan Grayson’s so-called Town Hall meeting on healthcare. I can not tell you how much disgust and loathing I have for him and his system. 1500 citizens were turned away, so 95 pre-selected Dems could fill a room with 126 seats. When the questions were too much for him to handle, he called them off, saying his children in attendance had to go home and to bed!

I’ll keep it simple. It wasn’t the answers that were so bad, it was the fraud and deceit that were the very foundation of the whole meeting.

Grayson arranged the meeting in a local union hall. He represents 550,000 people in Central Florida and he says he couldn’t find a hall to accommodate more than 126 people for his ONLY Town Hall on the issue. His reason? The meeting room was “free!”

The line to get in stretched past 4 blocks. There were at least 1500 people. There were young people, old people, Republicans, Democrats, vets in wheel chairs, and more. At about 7:30, those of us in the line were asked to show proof of residency in Grayson’s 8th CD. Fair enough.

We were told it was “first come, first admitted” but when the doors were opened 95 out of the 126 seats had already been taken by local Democrats who had been called there early for a 7:00 Democrat County meeting in the same room. Other Dems were seen being admitted through the back door at 7:40. The bottom line is that only 31 people out of 1500 attendees were admitted. Many of those 1500 had waited in the August Florida heat to get in. I was number 20 to get into the room. Only 11 followed.

The Q and A went as expected. The local Dems clapped and cheered every time Grayson said anything. He claimed to have read all 1007 pages of the bill, but could answer no specific questions.

If anything could be worse than the stacking of the room, he brought his three of his children to the meeting, and when the questioning began to get a bit pointed, he called it off because it was getting past their bed time!

He has no shame. I am more than angry. I am full of disgust and loathing for our so-called Representative, and very frightened and embarrassed for my country.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 111th; aar; grayson; orlando; potemkinvillage; townhall
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To: MindBender26

Congress has got to go. There is no other choice.


21 posted on 08/17/2009 8:02:52 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: MindBender26
Were cameras allowed inside the meeting hall? Hope so and that some good pictures will show the room already almost full when the “public” was allowed in.

This is the way all the DEM town halls will be. They have to because they are all afraid of us now. Obama opens his mouth and makes more Americans angry every day! And the angry folks are not all conservatives! Keep up the great work! We WILL get our country back and hold these fools in Congress accountable!

22 posted on 08/17/2009 8:03:05 PM PDT by seekthetruth ("See You In DC From 9/11 - 9/13 At Our National Freeper Tea Party Convention!")
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To: The Wizard
"we cannot be teased or cajoled into using violence (snip)Never give up, never give in, never surrender...."

And what do you do when they come for our guns?

23 posted on 08/17/2009 8:03:38 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Warning: Some words may be misspelled/ You will get over it / Klingon is my 1st language)
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To: MindBender26

What a creep. Sheesh.


24 posted on 08/17/2009 8:03:56 PM PDT by MizSterious (Impeach Barak "let them eat cake" Obama, while there's still something of our Republic to save.)
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To: exit82

It took American more than a decade to realize what the Crown was doing to us. But Americans are not going to be pushed around.


25 posted on 08/17/2009 8:04:03 PM PDT by RobbyS (ECCE HOMO!)
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To: The Wizard

That distant thunder that you may hear rolling through far-off hills is war.

War is coming. Here. Soon.

And, like my father before me, I am prepared. I am prepared to honor my oath.

And I won't be alone.

26 posted on 08/17/2009 8:04:22 PM PDT by Noumenon (Work that AQT - turn ammunition into skill. No tyrant can maintain a 300 yard perimeter forever.)
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To: Patrick1

“Any hope of victory?”

Yes, definitely. Check the story in this link.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316434/posts


27 posted on 08/17/2009 8:05:04 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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To: All
WOW It's really getting fugly for bambi and the dims out there. So why don't we have a pool on how many seats they'll lose in 2010? I think it's probably going to be a clean sweep, but who knows bambi may grow some nads and pull it out of his rectum..But the damage is done, real America has seen what liberal socialism is really all about, watching in real time sal alinsky rules for radicals at work
28 posted on 08/17/2009 8:05:13 PM PDT by 3IDVET (STEEL ON TARGET, MAKES EM RATTLED)
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To: taxtruth

Open your eyes. Grayson’s a Code Pink commie.


29 posted on 08/17/2009 8:06:16 PM PDT by kristinn (Latest FR Convention info: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318085/posts)
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To: MindBender26

“Grayson arranged the meeting in a local union hall.’

There you go. I expect to more and more of this.


30 posted on 08/17/2009 8:06:24 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Noumenon

It’s like 1993 again.


31 posted on 08/17/2009 8:08:11 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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To: guitarplayer1953

That’s when the shooting begins.


32 posted on 08/17/2009 8:10:39 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries for the American farmer.)
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To: The Wizard

I seem to agree with you.


33 posted on 08/17/2009 8:12:22 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: MindBender26

“At about 7:30, those of us in the line were asked to show proof of residency in Grayson’s 8th CD. Fair enough. “

just as it is fair to ask Obama for his birth certificate...


34 posted on 08/17/2009 8:12:55 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Obama acted stupidly...and that's after knowing all the facts.)
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To: MindBender26

Surely the GOPers have somebody decent to run against this turd.


35 posted on 08/17/2009 8:15:13 PM PDT by clintonh8r ("Seems fishy")
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To: MindBender26

This thing is breaking down on racial lines the opposite of 1876. God help us.


36 posted on 08/17/2009 8:16:35 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: MindBender26

Post an ad in the paper to the 1500 turned away at his townhall. Tell them you are hosting another healthcare townhall at the end of the Congressman’s driveway. Invite him to join you.......


37 posted on 08/17/2009 8:27:28 PM PDT by Big E
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To: Lorianne

Vote his rear out of office. Notify his office that you will go door to door to ensure he’s never elected to any office ever again.


38 posted on 08/17/2009 8:29:15 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: 3IDVET
The RATs are showing their collective asses to their constituents, finally.
We've been warning them for decades.
39 posted on 08/17/2009 8:30:19 PM PDT by MaxMax (Will the real JIM THOMPSON please pick up the white phone)
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To: guitarplayer1953

You shoot them! That’s what guns are for!


40 posted on 08/17/2009 8:45:12 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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