Introducing the corporate funded shills for health care lobbyists and the GOP.
Gene Green of Houston held a town hall meeting recently where he and a woman in the audience outwitted and shut down the teabagger looney tunes. It seems that the vast majority of the attendees either had Medicare or health care insurance. Only a handful had neither. Not all in attendance lived in Mr. Green's district.
Unions have decided to participate in the town hall meetings in order to counter the right wing extremist mobs.
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney outlines the plan.
"The principal battleground in the campaign will be town hall meetings and other gatherings with members of Congress in their home districts," reads the memo. "We want your help to organize major union participation to counter the right-wing "Tea-Party Patriots" who will try to disrupt those meetings, as they've been trying to do to meetings for the last month. ...
It is going to be a blistering hot and very interesting August.
AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka sent out the following scathing statement:
Every American has the inalienable right to participate in our democratic process. Our politics is passionate, heartfelt and often loud -- as was the founding of our nation. But that is not what the corporate-funded mobs are engaging in when they show up to disrupt town halls held by members of Congress.
Major health care reform is closer than ever to passage and it is no secret that special interests want to weaken or block it. These mobs are not there to participate. As their own strategy memo states, they have been sent by their corporate and lobbyist bankrollers to disrupt, heckle and block meaningful debate. This is a desperation move, meant to slow the momentum for change.
Mob rule is not democracy. People have a democratic right to express themselves and our elected leaders have a right to hear from their constituents -- not organized thugs whose sole purpose is to shut down the conversation and attempt to scare our leaders into inaction
We call on the insurance companies, the lobbyists and the Republican leaders who are cheering them on to halt these 'Brooks Brothers Riot' tactics. Health care is a crucial issue and everyone - on all sides of the issue - deserves to be heard.
I don't think the Republican leaders will stop cheering on the mobs. Like Sarah Palin they are doing all they can to incite lynch mobs, hate fests and riots.
When one is a hateful ignorant racist one knows no other way.
