Cross posted at Hillbilly Report.
It's difficult To find out where Mitch McConnell is going to be speaking, here in Kentucky. Team Mitch keeps that sort of information close to the vest. However Mitch McConnell loves to brag about meeting with folks after the fact. Even when the meetings are closed to the public meetings and/or captured audience meetings.
Yeah employers allow Mitch McConnell to speak to their employees and does anyone really think that any of these employees will call Mitch out or ask Mitch an uncomfortable question while the boss is watching? Really? Not in this economy!
Senator McConnell’s eNewsletter - - Week of January 6, 2014.
"This week Senator McConnell participated in his 59th hospital townhall meeting to discuss how Obamacare is affecting Kentuckians and Kentucky businesses. Senator McConnell spoke with employees at Baptist Health Lexington and listened to their experiences with Obamacare."
This is what
Greg Leichty, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate found when he tried to attend the Baptist Health Lexington townhall meeting:
"I was there early and found it was a closed meeting to employees and volunteers. You had to have the ID or invitation to get in the door."
This is what Geoffrey M Young Kentucky Democratic congressional candidate Kentucky's 6th congressional district found when he tried to attend the Baptist Health Lexington townhall meeting: "Three security men stopped me outside the door to the auditorium. They informed me it was closed to everyone but hospital employees. After about 25 minutes of conversation with them, I left a message with the public affairs director, Tammy Flora, who might or might not call me back."
It's time for Mitch McConnell to come out of hiding and hold real townhall meetings. Open to the public townhall meetings, because we have some real questions to ask and we want answers. And furthermore we want to video tape the meetings for the world to see the real Mitch McConnell!
Update: Just found out that Baptist Health Lexington, Kentucky provides their patients with Fox News on the TV's in the patients rooms, but no MSNBC.