Or not. I’m thinking that’s gonna be a big story over the next week or so. Thought it should have its own thread for commentary and local updates. What’s going on in yer neck of the swamp? Who’s gonna have a “town hall”, and who’s schedule doesn’t permit, darn it!
Now, maybe it isn’t, maybe it won’t amount to much and this thread will drift to the bottom and oblivion like a lead snowflake. So be it.
Could start it as early as right now, but might need to simmer a day or two. Me, I’m guessing that the trajectory of the probabilistic shit is going to intersect the locus of the fan.
(As I type, I see silent news (sound off) about jubilant New Yorkers gathering to meet Il Douche’s plane.)
Though I agree with you, especially given the town hall incidents already on record, you should include a link that shows that this is what said reps believe will happen.
Well, no, not the point. There’s a lot of them, don’t expect anyone to keep track of them. A collective project could keep us better informed. My own rep is the Hon. Keith Ellison, so not much to report. But I’m interested, and others who are also interested can join in. Or blow raspberries. Pound burdocks.
My district doesn’t have a Representative. Won’t for another few weeks. Awaiting the anointing of the eventual victor when the Republicans have their run-off on May 16 between the Conservative candidate and the EVEN MORE Conservative candidate. :rolleyes:
My Representative (Rod Blum, Iowa’s 1st District) posted a statement yesterday proudly supporting his vote in favor of the AHCA - even though right up to the vote he kept telling everyone he was “undecided.”
He actually is holding four different town halls next week, in four different cities in the district. So props to that. However, to attend you must 1) sign up ahead of time; 2) promise not to bring any "signs, pictures, posters or noisemakers; and 3) supply proof that you actually live in the district.
These requirements aren’t draconian, especially, but they mainly show how scared Blum (and many other Republicans) are about the home-state reactions to this vote. Blum has said other Congresspersons have told him about nefarious out-of-staters (perhaps even from gasp Chicago) coming to town halls only to yell and scream and make trouble. So he’s taking these steps to make sure these (paid?) protesters are kept out of his high-minded, serious policy discussions about how to make life better for all Americans- er, I mean, rich white Republican men.
I haven’t heard about Iowa’s other two GOP congressmen: David Young’s district includes Des Moines and Ames, so I imagine he’d face a lot of upset constituents if he had meetings. Steve King’s district, on the other hand, will probably throw him a parade and happily ask how many other ways they can find to screw over non-whites and foreigners.
I never read the “elections” forum. Too much argument for my tastes.
However, I’m going to a “town hall” tonight. My local congressman, a conservative asshole, is braving the electorate. Ordinarily he is greeted by a small amount of like minded people. I don’t think that is going to be the case tonight and I’m a little worried.
I told my wife that when I say that is “time to leave” she has to listen. We don’t usually have to make exit strategies before we go out. :eek:
My rep (Paul Cook, Ca-8) is too big a coward to appear anywhere except out in the desert, where everybody is addled by the heat and insane. If he dared appear in a populated area, he’d be tarred and feathered.
The town hall meeting was informative. The congressman was Raul Labrador.
I give him credit for showing up. He said some interesting things that I don’t think he meant to.
He’s not concerned about about the Russians because “They interfered in the last two elections too”. I would of thought that the republicans would have looked into that.
Someone asked whether the unethical and immoral things that Trump was doing would set a bad precedent for future presidents. He said as long as they weren’t “crimes” he was OK with that. When pressed he said that “those things aren’t criminal”.
I have to check those quoted words. I’ll look at a recording tomorrow.
Of course! Its so obvious! Who but the KGB could have forged that birth certificate good enough to fool everybody? You think that was the amazing stuff that Trump said his investigators found when they went there?
I went out with some friends afterwards and had a drink. And then I came home and had another. I kinda didn’t want to post about this after drinking.
But what the hey.
I live in a very conservative area. In 25 years of voting, Obama is the ONLY person, in any type of race, local or national, who I voted for, who has won. That sentence is tough to parse. In other words, only strict conservatives win elections around me.
But Trump has stirred up the more moderate republicans, some anyway.
The town hall was held in a local high school, filled up all the seats with a couple dozen people standing. Probably 500 people. That is a lot for the where I live.
The split was about 60% against, 40% for.
I do give Labrador credit for showing up.
I also give everybody there credit for keeping it pretty civil.
He didn’t give a speech at all. He was introduced and started taking questions right away. They gave out tickets with numbers on them when you went in and then drew the numbers out of a hat. If your number came up, you could ask a question.
He said point blank that he isn’t worried about Trump and he doesn’t care about the Russians owning him.
Obviously I’ve never heard of him, but I looked him up vainly hoping against hope he was a large friendly dog.
Actually if El Trumpo’s actions were criminal — in law as opposed to internet opinions — this would be demonstrable and he would be prosecuted.
Still, this bozo seems asusual: At his Nampa town hall meeting, which drew a crowd of 350, Labrador said, “For me, the perfect health care system would be catastrophic health care – you would pay for that at a low premium, and then everybody would pay out of their pocket for all the other needs. … That would drive down the cost of health care tremendously, if people were actually paying out of their pocket, because they would be able to negotiate directly with the doctors.”
Yeah, right. Apart from the fact doctors can just say no to any counter-offer ( and many people aren’t equipped for negotiation ), it’s just possible doctors have enough to do without engaging in Levantine haggling with every patient.
When a questioner at the Meridian town hall meeting pressed Labrador on whether he supported incentives for people to stay healthy, he said, “This is one of the fights we’re having, so let me explain a little bit. So the Affordable Care Act right now treats everybody the same, regardless of their health. So if you’re of the same age group, if you’re a healthy young person or a less healthy young person, the Affordable Care Act requires that the insurance companies charge you exactly the same amount of money. I don’t think that’s fair.”
Sorry you’ve got cancer: we’re now charging you times 10 to get any treatment…
Sadly there will be some adulation. Maybe 20-30% of the country hates the ACA, largely because a black democrat passed it, and they make up the base of the GOP. Those people will congratulate the reps for taking the bill away. All the suffering it causes doesn’t matter to them because most don’t think or understand if/how it will affect them negatively. They just know their team ‘won’.
