Friends
Josh Marshall at TPM reports that republi-thugs shouted down and chased off Lloyd Doggett and his attempt to hold a town hall meeting
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/...
I think we may have our first example of a reporter who seems to miss the distinction -- noted below -- of activists turning out to make themselves heard at townhall meeting and mobs sent to shut down town hall meetings.
From Sheryl Gay Stolberg in the Times ...
Day One of the Democrats' offensive on overhauling health care apparently did not go well for Representative Lloyd Doggett of Texas, who was shouted down by angry constituents during a town-hall style meeting in Austin on Saturday.
A crowd of what looked like several hundred people chanted "Just Say No!" and "Just Vote No!" and apparently chased Mr. Doggett to his car.
(and kudos to Josh for focusing on the media mis-eporting of the calculated disruption)
This is not an isolated event as we all know, and this strategy will continue until it is effectively countered and stopped.
If it works, why would they stop disrupting such meetings.
It still chaps me that the Brooks-Brothers public-pay-roll riot guys of 2000 Dade County never went to jail.
So, utilizing the wonderful power of collective strategizing and the marketplace of ideas, two things I would like to put to the Kos audience:
- Does anybody have video/photographs to this event such that the world shall know their names?
- Using are wits and not our anger, what is a good plan to deal with such disruption for feature events: we know that they are coming?
This one is important, Kids, so please take your time.
Thanks,
TUG