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Tom MacArthur, a Republican congressman from New Jersey, was heckled at a town hall event on Wednesday night, and the right is trying to turn the heckling into a multi-day story. Here's a Breitbart report that ran yesterday:
Town Hall Protesters Mock Death of GOP Lawmakers Special Needs Daughter
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There's no question that MacArthur and his family had an agonizing ordeal when his daughter died in the 1990s. But it's not clear that MacArthur understands how similar events affect other Americans. Obamacare has reduced the number of medical bankruptcies. MacArthur, for all his personal and perhaps financial suffering, hasn't carried around a millstone of debt. His daughter died 1n 1996. Three years later, he was named chairman and CEO of York Risk Services Group, Inc., positions he held until 2010. He's now the richest member of New Jersey's congressional delegation, with a net worth of $30.8 million. He was first elected to the House in 2014 in a race in which he spent $5 million of his own money.
I don't think it's unreasonable for some of his constituents to say that they're enduring similar trials, and that many of them might experience a much greater financial hit than he did.
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But to the right, MacArthur's hecklers aren't just impolite. They're barely distinguishable from terrorists.
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You really should read it all to understand. We are not the terrorists here. The GOP is trying to OUTRIGHT MURDER millions of Americans. Did Tommy tell the 'mob' how he will benefit with millions of dollars in tax cuts from this bill on the very backs of his constituents? I don't think he shared that little gem with them...for that matter did he even READ the F**KING BILL?
What the GOP is doing is stripping away a law of the land that has indeed helped millions with affordable healthcare. It was working and instead of trying to shore it up and improve it they want to replace it with coffins. They are cruel bastards, each and everyone of them have lost there soul.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Fake news designed to provoke dissent within the US. It should be shutdown and those involved deported.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)When did it become a virtue to die quietly and peacefully, bothering no one, after other people vote to cut your healthcare?
Because it was around that time that people realized that they could literally murder people...and make money from it, instead of paying what would be normal and natural consequences.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)If that is the new standard, doesn't that make Breitbart terrorists too...