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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,517 posts)
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 08:41 PM Apr 2025

GOP congressman gets mercilessly booed by prescreened audience

Republican Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida held a town hall on Monday where his staff prescreened attendees to make sure they lived in his deeply conservative southwestern Florida district, an attempt to prevent being heckled like his fellow Republican lawmakers have been.

Yet Donalds—who is running for governor in Florida with President Donald Trump's endorsement—still got mercilessly booed and jeered by constituents who were angry over Trump and co-President Elon Musk’s destructive Department of Government Efficiency, whose cuts are imperiling critical services like Social Security, weather forecasting, and medical research.

“Elon Musk and DOGE have been authorized by the president of the United States—" Donalds said, and then was drowned out by boos.

“Do you want to yell, or do you want to hear?” he said to the audience.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/22/2318010/-GOP-congressman-screened-town-hall-guests-and-still-got-booed

Thought he could control the narrative.

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GOP congressman gets mercilessly booed by prescreened audience (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2025 OP
He'll never understand that we're sick of listening to him and want him to listen to us. Deuxcents Apr 2025 #1
Sounds like he's dropped his Jamaican accent. Abolishinist Apr 2025 #2
A clip of the crowd ... ancianita Apr 2025 #3
No "mercy" for Nazis. and this is just the Cha Apr 2025 #4
"Deep" RED district. BD thought his fast talking Gaslighting SHIT Cha Apr 2025 #5

Deuxcents

(27,721 posts)
1. He'll never understand that we're sick of listening to him and want him to listen to us.
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 08:51 PM
Apr 2025

He was my Rep until I got gerrymandered to another district..still republican. He’s very much impressed with himself and a rapid follower of TSF.

Abolishinist

(3,057 posts)
2. Sounds like he's dropped his Jamaican accent.
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 08:57 PM
Apr 2025

The ex-wife of Florida GOP Rep. Byron Donalds is painting a different picture of the congressman than what Americans are seeing.

Bisa Hall told how she met Donalds as a freshman on the campus of HBCU, Florida A&M University, in 1996. She described Donalds as an “opportunistic person” who “will take whatever opportunity they’re given.” When the two met, Hall claims the congressman had a Jamaican accent and told her he was from Jamaica.

She later learned the then 18-year-old was from New York, and he told her the motive for the phony disguise. “He felt like it would make him stand out,” Hall said. “And he was right. There were a ton of guys from New York around, but there weren’t any guys from Jamaica. He was right; it got him noticed.”

https://www.blackenterprise.com/byron-donalds-ex-wife-exposes-past-life-lies/

Cha

(320,660 posts)
5. "Deep" RED district. BD thought his fast talking Gaslighting SHIT
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 10:53 PM
Apr 2025

could sooth the Savages Beasts.. WRONG!

They're dealing in the Reality of what MUMP is actually Doing to America and them.

"Gov of Florida"? I hope by then even Red Florida Turns Against that Putin Stooge Asshole.

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