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NY. Rep. Tim Bishop's Farmingville Town Hall Meeting On Health Care Turns Raucous
Newsday.com ^ | August 28, 2009 | Staff

Posted on 08/28/2009 6:10:22 PM PDT by WhiteCastle

More than 900 residents met U.S. Rep. Tim Bishop's promise to approve only a health care bill that "improves on a status quo that is unacceptable" with a mix of cheers and boos at a packed town hall meeting in Farmingville Thursday night.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 111th; angrymob; astroturf; astroturfing; goons; grassroots; longisland; newyork; ny2010; timbishop; townhalls; townhells; uniongoons; unions; unionthugs

1 posted on 08/28/2009 6:10:22 PM PDT by WhiteCastle
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To: WhiteCastle

Whenever there are printed signs in the crowd it always makes me wonder who those people are representing. It just seems so suspicious.


2 posted on 08/28/2009 6:18:51 PM PDT by mia
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To: WhiteCastle

Two people I know were interviewed by News 12, the local TV news channel, claiming Democrat supporters were bussed in and I believe them. Bishop denies it.


3 posted on 08/28/2009 6:28:18 PM PDT by murphE ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - GK Chesterton)
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To: WhiteCastle
Raucous - that word in every title
4 posted on 08/28/2009 6:32:46 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: WhiteCastle; mia; murphE; TornadoAlley3

have you seen this? A union leader was given permission to speak. He was challenged by the crowd as to whether he was a constituent. When he admitted he was not the crowd demanded that he not be allowed to speak. Finally Bishop agreed and the guy left.

video from Bishop’s meeting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHg77X312YI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgatewaypundit.blogspot.com%2F&feature=player_embedded

Gateway has a report

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/union-leader-booed-out-of-rep-tim.html


5 posted on 08/29/2009 1:36:04 PM PDT by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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