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Just got a robocall from his office this evening (Aug 24)...... Altmire Invites Constituents to Town Hall Meeting on Health Care Reform on August 26 August 18, 2009(???) (PITTSBURGH, PA) -- Today, U.S. Congressman Jason Altmire (PA-04) announced that he will hold a town hall meeting on health care reform in Farrell on Wednesday, August 26 at 4:30 p.m. The meeting will be held in the auditorium at Farrell Area High School, located at 1600 Roemer Boulevard in Farrell, PA. Doors will open at 4 pm. If anyone knows applicable town meeting sites could you please post this there. BTW,...

The President of the United States will meet directly with New Hampshire voters to discuss health care reform on Tuesday -- before three of New Hampshire's four members of Congress do. Rep. Paul Hodes is the only member of New Hampshire's congressional delegation to have met face-to-face with New Hampshire voters on this issue since the House went home for its August recess last weekend. He discussed health care with members of the Kendal at Hanover retirement community on Tuesday. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter plans to hold a telephone conference call with constituents (called a telephone town hall meeting), several hour-long...

So where did that crowd intent on heckling Congressmen Jim McGovern and Richard Neal during their UMass town hall style meeting on healthcare come from? It appears that the crowd was made up of many of the same supporters of the Worcester Tea Party movement, at least according to morning callers to WTAG. Additionally, calls for attendees went out before the meeting on freerepublic.com, where one posting from a “Ken” stated, “We know that Mr. McGovern will not answer these questions directly. We will confront him when he does not answer though. After a question goes unanswered, we’ll chant “ANSWER...

Direct democracy can be a headache for town officials who have to cut and re-cut before voters bless a municipal budget. Budget referendums are uncommon in most of the United States and aren't universal in Connecticut, taking place mostly in smaller towns. Last month, Bethel, Brookfield and Newtown each had two failed referendums, when voters decided the budgets just spent too much money. Some officials feel their towns are victims of a cycle of frustration stemming from rising prices everywhere else. "The negative side is that we are probably the only thing people can vote on and have an impact,"...

It was a moment brought to you by the First Amendment. Minutes after finishing a face-to-face verbal assault on President Bush, Harry Taylor was talking about the experience with reporters who covered the president's visit Thursday to Charlotte. Speaking from the balcony of a theater at Central Piedmont Community College, the 61-year-old commercial real estate broker had laced into Bush for his conduct of the war on terror, his environmental record and his opposition to legalized abortion. "In my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of my leadership in Washington," Taylor told the president. "And I would hope from...

Maine Civil Liberties Union prompts council's change MONSON - It has long been a tradition in March for residents in this small Piscataquis County town to bow their heads in prayer before they act on the town's budget for the year. That tradition is no longer. Monson selectmen voted last week to discontinue the practice of including prayer in municipal meetings. The move was prompted by a request from the Maine Civil Liberties Union for the town to cease including sectarian prayer in its public meetings. The MCLU said it had received complaints from Monson residents who felt discouraged from...

Davis stumbles on a question he knew in advance at his 'town hall' meeting 9-17-03. Click Here for the RealAudio file.

<p>ORANGE, Calif. — Arnold Schwarzenegger (search) is making another step toward settling into the role of a traditional political candidate.</p> <p>Pulling a page from Gov. Gray Davis (search)' playbook, the actor was to hold a town hall-style meeting Monday evening at Chapman University, where he was scheduled to field questions from more than 100 invited guests including small-business owners and students, campaign spokesman Sean Walsh said.</p>

For Immediate Release Contact: Dan Scandling, (202) 225-5136 WOLF TO HOLD TOWN MEETINGS IN HERNDON, McLEAN ON JANUARY 25 Washington, D.C. - Rep. Frank Wolf (R-10th) will hold Town Hall meetings in Herndon and McLean on Saturday, January 25. The meetings times and places are: -- Herndon -- 9 a.m. Herndon Town Council Chambers 765 Lynn Street -- McLean -- 11 a.m McLean Governmental Center 1437 Balls Hill Road Both meetings are open to the public. Wolf usually opens with a few brief remarks then takes questions from the audience. Del. Tom Rust will be Wolf's special guest at the...

---- E-Mail Message Intercepted by "Houston Area Campus Greens" ---- I am writing to you to help me confront US Rep Culberson about his vote for war at his last town hall meeting, Saturday, October 26, T. H. Rogers School, 5840 San Felipe, 10:00 to 11:30 am. We will be doing a scenario training event Friday evening (the 25th) at 6:30 at Maryknoll 2360 Rice Blvd. in the Olive Branch room (garage apt.) Please bring potential questions for Culberson to the meeting and we'll see which ones are harder to deflect. Having been booed at and had my question unanswered,...

Officials charged with rebuilding Lower Manhattan in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center said yesterday that they would consider new options for the site, including scaling back the amount of commercial space and extending the timeline for completing a final plan.About 5,000 people came to the Javits Convention Center on Saturday for a forum on rebuilding Lower Manhattan. The changes, the officials said, were in response to a broad array of criticism of the six initial designs for rebuilding the trade center site, including unfavorable appraisals at a town hall meeting in Manhattan...