Just got some reports on DeFazio’s town hall in Corvallis today and will receive updates on Grants Pass by tomorrow morning. Apparently, protesters, tea baggers if you will, some from as far away as Vermont! are disrupting local town halls including DeFazio’s. Word is that DeFazio handled the event pretty well.
Who the hell do these people think they are disrupting OUR TOWN HALL MEETINGS and intruding on OUR opportunity to talk with OUR Congressman?
Evidently they arrive two hours early to secure the best seating and they take over the meeting.
UPDATE: From AP
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio ran into a buzzsaw of fear and misinformation about federal health care reform proposals Wednesday on his first day of town hall meetings during the Congressional recess.
At a stop in Grants Pass, the Springfield Democrat repeatedly had to call for quiet and correct people on what the proposed legislation actually says regarding end-of-life care, illegal aliens and other issues.
DeFazio noted that the bill before the House has Medicare pay for the elderly to talk to their doctor about what kind of care they want at the end of their lives. He characterized fears that it would promote euthanasia as “phony arguments.”
(hat tip/Jody)
