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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGEORGIA: 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 Trumps 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 Hices 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/
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 Trumps 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 Hices 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
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dawg
(10,610 posts)1. Just give us some time (and maybe a little help) ...
we're gonna' retake control of this big ol' state someday.
herding cats
(19,549 posts)7. Georgia has been making steady progress.
The Dems there have been doing a good job.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)2. Fantastic, make it impossible for any representative of either party to
get a cup of coffee without hearing this.
packman
(16,296 posts)3. Looking into my crystal ball (mind out of the gutter please)
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
I know the special election in GA-06 will be contested. I hope it helps the Dems build infrastructure there
kwassa
(23,340 posts)5. Keep the pressure up!
Qutzupalotl
(14,230 posts)6. What is a town hall without questions from constituents?
A lecture.