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herding cats

(19,549 posts)
Fri Feb 10, 2017, 01:54 PM Feb 2017

GEORGIA: Congressional GOP Aides Driven From Room With SHAME! Chants By Trump Protesters

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports:

The protests that have rocked Republican town hall meetings across the nation have arrived in Georgia. Dozens of protesters packed a meeting on Friday in Greensboro hosted by aides to U.S. Sens. David Perdue and Johnny Isakson and Rep. Jody Hice. The trio of Republicans, though, was not there.

The meeting – which a Hice spokesman characterized as a routine “constituent service day” featuring private sessions with local residents – is one of the first Republican congressional events in Georgia since Donald Trump’s inauguration. About a half-dozen congressional aides briefly addressed the crowd, telling them the event was not a town hall and they would take no questions from the floor. They left after crowd members chanted “shame, shame, shame.”

Many in the crowd of hundreds drove in from metro Atlanta or Athens, a where a protest group organized a carpool convoy to the event. About half of the group applauded when asked if they lived in Hice’s northeast Georgia district, a deeply-conservative district which includes much of the Democratic bastion of Athens. The lawmakers’ aides said the event was never meant to be a traditional town hall meeting.

http://www.joemygod.com/2017/02/10/georgia-congressional-gop-aides-driven-room-shame-chants-trump-protesters-video/


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GEORGIA: Congressional GOP Aides Driven From Room With SHAME! Chants By Trump Protesters (Original Post) herding cats Feb 2017 OP
Just give us some time (and maybe a little help) ... dawg Feb 2017 #1
Georgia has been making steady progress. herding cats Feb 2017 #7
Fantastic, make it impossible for any representative of either party to Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #2
Looking into my crystal ball (mind out of the gutter please) packman Feb 2017 #3
kick crazycatlady Feb 2017 #4
Keep the pressure up! kwassa Feb 2017 #5
What is a town hall without questions from constituents? Qutzupalotl Feb 2017 #6

dawg

(10,610 posts)
1. Just give us some time (and maybe a little help) ...
Fri Feb 10, 2017, 01:57 PM
Feb 2017

we're gonna' retake control of this big ol' state someday.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
2. Fantastic, make it impossible for any representative of either party to
Fri Feb 10, 2017, 01:58 PM
Feb 2017

get a cup of coffee without hearing this.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
3. Looking into my crystal ball (mind out of the gutter please)
Fri Feb 10, 2017, 02:11 PM
Feb 2017

I PREDICT - Video town halls soon to appear where there is no face-to-facers and all questions are submitted electronically. Nice, civil and sterile interaction between gov. reps and those unruly crowds.

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)
4. kick
Fri Feb 10, 2017, 02:12 PM
Feb 2017

I know the special election in GA-06 will be contested. I hope it helps the Dems build infrastructure there

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