Chaffetz Said He Believes Town Hall Protestors Were Paid, Not From Utah

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64. Let's do some arithmetic

There were about a thousand protestors at a guess. If the room was at capacity the organizers should know how many people can fit in it. A Congressional district has about half a million people: let's say 600k to make the math easier. Chaffetz admits 33% of the district didn't vote for him - that's 200K people. Even if we eliminate half of those for being underage or non-citizens that's still 100,000 people. So if 1000 showed up, that's only 1% of his non-stalwart supporters. And that's ignoring any attendees who may have voted for him and disagree with some of his positions. So no need to bring in paid stringers.

(I wish my representative would hold a real town hall meeting! She does telephone ones sometimes, but you have to be on her mailing list or regularly visit her website to know about them. This is one of my bones of contention with her. And she's a Democrat who votes correctly and keeps getting elected with high margins.)