Posted on 08/25/2009 8:51:18 PM PDT by HokieMom
Rep. Jim Moran's town hall meeting descended into chaos Tuesday night as protestors clashed -- in one case violently -- with supporters of a broad federal health care expansion, leading the 8th District Democrat to angrily seek to evict some of the loudest demonstrators.
Moran and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean addressed a crowd of at least 2,500 at South Lakes High School in Reston, weathering hours of catcalls and heckling mixed with shouts from supporters.
Outside, a spillover crowd of protestors and counter-protesters shouted slogans at each other. A man in a Cato Institute T-shirt scuffled with a man wearing an Obama T-shirt, punched him in the face, and was shortly after kicked off the property by police officers.
Police said they were seeking to avoid arrests to help keep the crowd under control.
Inside, the scene was just as raucous. Moran -- fuming that his introduction of Dean was met with jeers -- finally lost his temper with the crowd.
"There are hundreds of people in this gymnasium who can't hear [Dean] because of a handful of people," Moran said. "These folks are not from the 8th District, they don't really belong here, and I'm going to ask them to leave."
Moran is a supporter of the $1.6 trillion House health care bill that would create a new government health option. The bill, mired in disputes among Democratic factions, has proved a lightning rod in town hall meetings across America.
The meeting hosted by Moran contrasted sharply to a town hall in Springfield held by 11th District Democrat Gerry Connolly earlier in the day.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Health Care Reform Supporters, Opponents Come Out in Virginia
http://www.news8.net/news/stories/0809/653190.html
With video, although I coudn’t get it to play.
The...(suppressing guffaws)..."esteemed" Mr. Moran is psychic? He just knows who "belongs" and who doesn't?
Wow.
Somehow, this doesn't pass the smell test.
Hey Rep Moran, all the money you rake in from people outside your district doesn’t belong there either.
Boos reign at Reston health care event (Washington Times)
Moran himself doesn’t belong here. He should go back to Boston.
Thanks for posting. I clicked on the little arrow on the video and got it to play. Love to see the fired up folks.
LOL :)
Probably a plant. We know they do it often.
Thanks! I’ll try again.
I lived in that congressional district for 22 years. There aren’t a lot of AFL-CIO people who live in it. Sure as hell aren’t any in Reston or Alexandria. I don’t know many union workers who live in $800,000 houses.
He is a psychic. I’m sure he hasn’t read the bill either, but knows that it is best for the peasants.
Why not? Whenever I feel the urge to go stomp some liberals, I put on my Hoover Institution tee shirt, grab the ol' Club For Growth, and head down to the Town Hall Meeting.
Then, when I whip the beat-down on some commie, the cops don't arrest me for assault and battery, why, no sir. They throw me off the property, don't even get my name, and nobody's the wiser! Heh. Aren't I clever?
Lots of AFSCME, though, right? Federal employees union? And NEA. They never saw a leftist program they didn't like.
Thanks! Definitely looks like the teachers union came together up in the bleachers with their factory-made signs and Obama campaign chants.
That’s a Twitter feed? I’ve never read one before. Interesting!
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