Andy Harris (R-MD) Phones in Town Hall Meeting

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Tuesday May 08, 2012 · 4:59 PM PDT

2012/05/08 · 16:59

Just call a "Private Name", Private Number" call from Andy Harris whose district covers the Eastern Shore of Maryland and much of Harford County (Aberdeen Proving Ground). The last couple times he's had town hall meetings he scheduled them during mid afternoon on work days. Nothing on weekends or evenings, always on short notice.

Now he's too chicken to even show up, but we all get a 1 minute record of his meeting on our answering machines. He gets to say he had a town hall meeting and listened to his constituents. Maybe he should stay on the eastern shore and listen to the chickens cluck.

I will enjoy voting against this guy. How much of a wuss do you have to be to phone in a town hall meeting?

Is this the new tactic for avoiding questions?

Rush by the numbers

cheminMD

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Wednesday March 07, 2012 · 5:31 PM PST

2012/03/07 · 17:31

Bear with me, I'm going to put up some straw-man numbers. I don't have any knowledge of the radio advertising business. I've never listened to Rush, never wanted to, life's too short. Let's have fun and run some numbers.

The man makes $50,000,000 per year. Let's assume that's all for the radio show (is there a TV show? if so let's ignore it). He's broadcast on approximately 600 radio stations, 3 hours per day, 5 days per week. Let's assume he's only on about 220 days per year. Each hour of radio time gives about 9 minutes of ads (18 ads per hour).

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