Congressman Mo Brooks returned to Alabama, where he planned to have a town hall meeting in Huntsville. But a funny thing happened to Brooks. Like all Republican (and most Democratic) members of Congress lately, he suddenly found his “open to the public” meeting was “sold out”—so he promptly canceled it altogether. Brooks and his tea party pals gave a variety of nonsensical excuses, including, they “didn’t want to meet until all the president’s nominees were confirmed.”
So imagine the surprise of Huntsville-area constituents when they showed up at the “canceled” meeting last night and there was Congressman Mo Brooks, meeting with his conservative supporters. Check out this account from Left in Alabama and be sure to watch the video below to you can see Mo Brooks, his staff, and his conservative supporters scatter like cockroaches when the lights get turned on. Note that Brooks hid in the church somewhere until they were sure no other constituents (which he calls protesters) showed up:
But not “on time.” Those suspicious individuals who attended “just in case” were told that Brooks’ appearance had been canceled. Fortunately, they stayed long enough to send out a confirmed sighting of our district’s most famous chicken.
Earlier in the evening, the Tea Party folks made a great show of complaining about how many extra hot dogs they had, and waved off the hired police presence, since “no protests” were expected.
Once the coast was clear (he thought), Rep. Brooks strolled casually into his native habitat: a Tea Party meeting hosted in a Baptist church. Oh, but word quickly went forth. Fortuitously, Madison County Democrats were meeting just a few miles away, and they quickly headed for the Tea Party event.
Amazingly. it ended as soon as they arrived and began trying to ask questions.
Now, watch this!
Constituent Deborah Barros-Smith was filming as she made her way into the meeting, and what was Mo Brooks telling the crowd? All about the “violent left,” referencing the protests at UC Berkeley, and the meanies who were inciting violence by calling people racists. Never mind that millions and millions of U.S. voters have peacefully demonstrated and calmly showed up at their elected representative’s offices day after day, week after week, with no reports of violence. Chickens like Mo Brooks are using this as an excuse to shut down all constituent meetings.
Nevertheless, as soon as Mo Brooks and his staff realized other constituents were coming into the gymnasium, they abruptly stood up and canceled the meeting and scattered like cockroaches (at roughly the 4:00 mark of the video):
Y’all can keep running, Rep. Brooks. But, 2018 is going to come at you fast, fast, fast.
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