Posted on 02/22/2017 3:34:49 PM PST by markomalley
Leni
24/7 of being AWAKE on finding, and inventing ways with rent-a-mob mentalities to take down MAGA and destroy the United States of America. Just look at the insane mob of sickly candidates “inspiring” to become chair of the failing DNC party !!!
Expose those funding these protestors and pretend constituents and all those promoting sedition. We know their names, now find the evidence and prosecute. Calling Jeff Sessions!
Well, this really is nothing new. Alinsky wrote about this a long time ago, and it has been a staple of union tactics for 75 years.
Leni, 2 solutions to town hall meetings being taken over by astroturfing radicals...
1. Though a change, would it be too controversial to limit attendance at these town hall meetings to in-district constituents?
2. If too extreme to limit participants to constituents, at least limit questioners to in-district attendees?
Neither of these screening methods strike me as extremely controversial as I cannot contact many of the Reps and Senators through their website comment sections as they screen for zip codes of constituents in their districts.
3. My Rep does what he calls a “telephone” town hall meetings...He has a phone call go out to constituents (I am not sure if listing is all constituents or those who signed up at his website). Upon answering, the person has the choice to hangup or listen in and ask questions. He takes one question at a time. This is what Judy Biggert used to do and he continued her telephone town hall tradition.
If the meetings are held in public buildings it may be against rental policy. Also, there would undoubtedly be prior big messes and brouhahas at entrance-ways when attempting to card everyone entering, including those with fake addresses who want to get in to perform their mini-riots.
Solution # 2...."limit questioners to in-district attendees?"
See above comment. Also, no one thinks that you can keep in-district or out-of-district plants and disruptors from rising to ask questions or make comments with or without permission from the dais. They WILL be heard despite any attempt to gavel them down.
I don't know the answer to the spread of infiltrated town hall meetings yet. Each individual elected office-holder sponsoring the town meeting has to make his/her own decision whether to continue the practice based on the tenor of the district, his/her ability and desire to handle the disruptions, screeching, cat-calling and sign-waving...and, of course, his/her own personal internal fortitude.
Leni
Hmm on other factor to consider is safety concerns—some pols have had to be escorted by security after town halls.
I wonder if they continue doing them, like at Trump Rallies, folks will need to get tickets and to provide name, address, etc. Trump rallies were at public buildings...
No easy solution~they may have to move to the telephone town hall method I mentioned.
Just a shame to have these radicals hijack public meetings—especially in a state like Iowa?!?! Tho I noted the location of Ernst’s town hall was only a 3.5 hour drive from Chicago.
The progressives prefer to demonstrate, riot, protest etc...over working in 8-5 mundane jobs. The 200-300 people attending these town halls are definitely not the silent majority, who are too busy working and having a real life.
Their goose is cooked!
We finally have a man in the WH who takes them on, and exposes them. McConnell says, Trump doing the same that Jeb, Marco or any other of the republican field would do. BS! Trump is calling them out. He is impatient with those who retard his agenda.
I doubt too that Jeb’s cabinet would look anything like Trump’s. General Kelly is certainly impressive and a bit intimidating isn’t he?
“It’s vital to see these current tumultuous “town hall” events not as stand-alone happenings, but as part of a huge war being waged on us EVERY day on every front line of the fabric of our society....while too many Americans are sound asleep or just don’t care.
The Left never sleeps!”
Exactly right. The only problem is that our people (conservatives) work. Many of the liberals, don’t. And those that don’t work (welfare recipients/students from nearby campuses and the like) are their paid or otherwise roiled up storm troopers. Their “jobs” funded by the likes of George Soros, are as rent-a-mobs sent out to riot or shout down and interfere with elected officials and conservative spokesmen and women at town hall meetings, on college campuses, at gov’t functions, etc.
This is what we are contending with, and there are no easy solutions, but something must be done. One good first start would be to feed George Soros to the wolves. Get him extradited out of this country and returned to Hungary (or to Russia) where their are warrants out for his arrest. Let him rot in a prison for the rest of his sorry life.
His sons will think twice about acting out and paying out to lib/socialist groups in this country, if they have to spend their time and money visiting their old man in a Russian or Hungarian prison, a reminder of what happens to those that cross the line into sedition.
their = there above. Wrong “their” there.
The fix:
Have the meeting on private property.
Photo ID, constituents only.
Arrest as necessary, prosecute.
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