Sat Feb 18, 2017, 12:04 PM
Raucous crowd overwhelms Reed town hall meeting
Source: Buffalo News
ASHVILLE -- A huge crowd of raucous progressives and quieter conservatives overwhelmed Rep. Tom Reed's town hall meeting in this Chautauqua County village Saturday morning, with the progressives repeatedly interrupting and shouting down the congressman's comments as he tried to defend Republican plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The crowd was so large that it was moved out of the senior center where it was scheduled and into the parking lot outside. There, Reed patiently worked -- but failed -- to maintain order. "We do not always agree," the Republican Congressman from Corning told the crowd at the outset of the meeting. "As we have disagreement, let's make sure we have it in a respectful, safe way." But decorum broke down as Reed described replacing Obamacare with a conservative plan that would include health savings accounts. "How can the poor get savings accounts? How can the poor get savings accounts?" many members of the crowd replied in unison. Read more: http://buffalonews.com/2017/02/18/huge-crowd-progressives-overwhelms-reed-town-hall-meeting/ Wow! Western NY is quite red - go get 'em! 
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Author | Time | Post |
 Raucous crowd overwhelms Reed town hall meeting (Original post) |
Cooley Hurd | Feb 2017 | OP |
| bravenak | Feb 2017 | #1 | |
| Hortensis | Feb 2017 | #9 | |
| bravenak | Feb 2017 | #10 | |
| Hortensis | Feb 2017 | #11 | |
| bravenak | Feb 2017 | #12 | |
| Hortensis | Feb 2017 | #14 | |
| bravenak | Feb 2017 | #15 | |
| moonscape | Feb 2017 | #17 | |
| Scarsdale | Feb 2017 | #2 | |
| mpcamb | Feb 2017 | #4 | |
| zentrum | Feb 2017 | #3 | |
| flamingdem | Feb 2017 | #5 | |
| Squinch | Feb 2017 | #6 | |
| Cooley Hurd | Feb 2017 | #8 | |
| retrowire | Feb 2017 | #7 | |
| packman | Feb 2017 | #13 | |
| mobeau69 | Feb 2017 | #16 | |
| wordpix | Feb 2017 | #18 | |
| geretogo | Feb 2017 | #19 | |
| Ligyron | Feb 2017 | #24 | |
| geretogo | Feb 2017 | #30 | |
| blue sky at night | Feb 2017 | #20 | |
| Wounded Bear | Feb 2017 | #21 | |
| NBachers | Feb 2017 | #22 | |
| womanofthehills | Feb 2017 | #23 | |
| mobeau69 | Feb 2017 | #25 | |
| Skittles | Feb 2017 | #26 | |
| BobTheSubgenius | Feb 2017 | #27 | |
| guillaumeb | Feb 2017 | #28 | |
| ailsagirl | Feb 2017 | #29 |
Response to bravenak (Reply #1)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 01:09 PM
Hortensis (55,024 posts)
9. Oh, Bravenak, I can just imagine you right in there.
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Now me, given that this was NC, and that even Ashville isn't all that liberal, with some very deep cultural divides, I'd much rather hear that large numbers of people dressed as if they'd come from church, or at least sitting up straight and respectfully, set the tone for the meeting by asking lots of courteous--but enlightening--questions about concerns common to most people and just kept asking them until they got answers.
Fairy dream, perhaps, but what it might have started... Democracy can only function when people work together, after all. President Obama feared that a badly weakened center wouldn't hold, and it didn't. Divided we all fell, even if only we know it yet.  |
Response to bravenak (Reply #10)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 01:25 PM
Hortensis (55,024 posts)
11. And the need to defend undefendable lies.
Response to bravenak (Reply #12)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 01:49 PM
Hortensis (55,024 posts)
14. Agree 100%. Fortunately, most trumpsters did not ask for
Response to Hortensis (Reply #9)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 02:16 PM
moonscape (4,238 posts)
17. It was Ashville, NY not Asheville, NC n/t
Response to Scarsdale (Reply #2)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 12:48 PM
4. Tea Party had $$$ Money, Koch money. We have numbers.
Response to Cooley Hurd (Original post)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 12:40 PM
zentrum (9,859 posts)
3. Excellent work Progressives.
Response to Cooley Hurd (Original post)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 12:52 PM
Squinch (46,329 posts)
6. As you say western NY is red. But western NY is also poor. What the hell were they doing voting
Response to Cooley Hurd (Original post)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 12:52 PM
7. It's always so funny to hear these politicians try to quell an angry crowd.
Response to Cooley Hurd (Original post)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 01:39 PM
packman (16,180 posts)
13. SAVING ACCOUNTS !!!
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Yah, $10 - maybe $20 a week - years savings - one trip to the emergency room - POOF -
These asswipes do live in an alternative reality - Why aren't they subscribing to that saving plan instead of their plush gov. insurance? |
Response to Cooley Hurd (Original post)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 02:07 PM
16. Complete Video of Reed's town hall here:
Response to Cooley Hurd (Original post)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 02:24 PM
18. Thank you Asheville! Why should we be quiet/polite when R's are tearing US apart
Response to Cooley Hurd (Original post)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 02:24 PM
19. To get these Koch heads to listen to the people I still say have as many work stoppages in this
Response to Cooley Hurd (Original post)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 02:32 PM
Wounded Bear (54,826 posts)
21. I've always figured that there were a lot of blue voters in red districts...
Response to Cooley Hurd (Original post)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 02:41 PM
NBachers (15,530 posts)
22. This is Paladino country. Maybe there's hope for Western New York yet!
Response to Cooley Hurd (Original post)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 02:54 PM
womanofthehills (7,022 posts)
23. I love that the people chant the question when Reed won't answer it
Response to womanofthehills (Reply #23)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 03:13 PM
25. "Trump's Taxes - Trump's Taxes - Trump's Taxes". That was vey good!
Response to Cooley Hurd (Original post)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 03:14 PM
Skittles (147,690 posts)
26. WE'RE FED UP BEING COURTEOUS TO YOU FASCIST BASTARDS
Response to Cooley Hurd (Original post)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 03:22 PM
27. My wife is from Chautauqua County.
Response to Cooley Hurd (Original post)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 03:27 PM
guillaumeb (42,641 posts)
28. A Republican Congress member in a Republican District,
Response to Cooley Hurd (Original post)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 09:54 PM
ailsagirl (21,867 posts)
29. Excellent
