Rep. Ted Poe to hold health care town hall at funeral home.

babylonsister

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Tue Aug-18-09 02:04 PM
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Rep. Ted Poe to hold health care town hall at funeral home.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/18/poe-funeral-home/

Rep. Ted Poe to hold health care town hall at funeral home.

Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) has announced that he �will hold a health care town hall at Brookside Funeral Home on Saturday, Aug. 22 at 10 a.m.� The awkward venue selection would seem to suggest that Poe may be interested in furthering the right-wing�s false �death panels� talking point. Late last month, before Congress recessed for August, Poe delivered a speech on the House floor arguing that �when government runs health care, senior citizens are sometimes refused treatment because of their age.� He continued his fear-mongering:

Government-run health care lets bureaucrats decide who receives rationed care and who doesn�t, who lives and who just dies.

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derby378

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Tue Aug-18-09 05:57 PM
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1. Does the funeral home know that Poe wants to pull this sick stunt?

Maybe it's just me, but I would think most undertakers would recoil from the very idea of this.

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merci_me

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Tue Aug-18-09 06:57 PM
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4. More importantly will this be disclosed

Edited on Tue Aug-18-09 06:58 PM by merci_me

to anyone who seeks to have their deceased loved one brought there in the coming days. I mean, can you imagine going to the funeral home for visitation, only to find sleazy Ted Poe and a mob? If it happened to my family, I'd sue the funeral home and Poe. I'd hope he got one of his own famous sentences, such as having to spend every weekend for the rest of his term, in front of the funeral home with a sign saying "Yeah, I'm that f#^$ing bastard who has no respect for the deceased, nor how they become deceased."

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johncoby2

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Tue Aug-18-09 06:14 PM
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2. Boycott! Dont die there!

Ted Poe one stupid bastard

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ceile

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Tue Aug-18-09 06:36 PM
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3. Where's Brookside?

Is that the city or the funeral home?

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onestepforward

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Tue Aug-18-09 09:25 PM
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5. Brookside is the name of the funeral home.

It is located in the north Houston area.

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PDittie

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Wed Aug-19-09 06:50 AM
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6. On 1960.

Address inside HCN link in original.

I plan on attending in order to document the atrocities.

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sonias

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Mon Aug-24-09 01:50 PM
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7. Any reports from the dark side?

Did anyone go to this and have a report?

Sonia

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onestepforward

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Mon Aug-24-09 03:13 PM
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8. I found this one:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6370390

The video link doesn't work but on Mugsy's blog link, he gives a really good description of what happened.

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sonias

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Mon Aug-24-09 06:14 PM
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9. Thanks!

Mugsy gave a good rundown.

Sonia

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