Tom MacArthur (R-NJ) Takes a Five-Hour Town-Hall Beating

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At least he showed up, but good for these residents/activists!


Tom MacArthur Takes a Five-Hour Town-Hall Beating
The Republican congressman whose amendment was crucial to the American Health Care Act’s passage endured five hours of hostile questions from his New Jersey constituents Wednesday.
Gideon Resnick
05.11.17 1:45 AM ET


WILLINGBORO, New Jersey—Tom MacArthur had already taken more than three hours of questions, interruptions, and jeers when Geoff Ginter, a constituent from Pine Beach, stood up.

“Health insurance as a for-profit is immoral!” Ginter screamed at the Republican congressman from just a few feet away, as police slowly inched toward him. Referring to MacArthur as “Tommy Boy,” Ginter called the American Health Care Act a “huge pile of excrement.” He was concerned because his wife had recently recovered from breast cancer and he was worried it could return. He has two children with pre-existing conditions, he said, and he and his wife were worried about the possibility of him losing his job.

MacArthur stood quietly and listened as Ginter spoke. And the congressman who helped seal the deal for the health care bill’s narrow passage in the House would continue to stand and listen for an additional two hours, taking question after question from 6:30 p.m. to about 11:30 p.m. inside the confines of the John F. Kennedy Center.

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MacArthur said he wasn’t ready, as everyone in the crowd seemed to be, for the appointment of a special prosecutor to handle the ongoing investigation into alleged ties between Trump’s campaign and Russia. And the congressman emphasized that the appointment of such a prosecutor would not be “some silver bullet.”

But that statement, like many of the night, was not nearly good enough for those in attendance.

“When are you going to decide to be an American and not a politician?”

“Have you been invited to Mar-a-Lago?”

“Does your bill pass the Jimmy Kimmel test?”

And on and on it went.


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