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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 09:56 AM
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Many hecklers are GOP operatives.
Rep. Steve Kagen (D-WI) faced a “heated” discussion about health care at a town hall meeting yesterday, with people in the crowd who were heckling, interrupting, and filibustering him.

One vocal attendee was a woman named Heather Blish, who identified herself as “just a mom from a few blocks away” and “not affiliated with any political party.” When interviewed by the local NBC affiliate, Blish insisted she was not a member of the Republican Party. “I left the party,” she said. Blish’s statements, however, are distortions. From NBC’s report:

Her LinkedIn page shows something different. She was the vice chair of the Republican Party of Kewaunee County until last year. She worked on the John Gard campaign, who ran unsuccessfully against Kagen last year. And it says she’s a part of the Republican Party for Kagen’s district, as well as the Republican Party of Wisconsin, and the Republican National Committee.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/07/woman-mom-gop/
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Epiphany4z Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 10:02 AM
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1. sooner or later we will be able to recognize that
the same people are showing up at these things....there should be a way to use that info
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 10:03 AM
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2. Video these meetings and put 'em up on Youtube.
Focus on the faces that keep popping up at these rallies.
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Epiphany4z Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 10:08 AM
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3. That is always helpful
and I pass those videos around all the time. Still, I was thinking of something at the actually town-halls they show up at.
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alsame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 10:09 AM
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4. And they are using the same talking points - verbatim. I saw two
Edited on Fri Aug-07-09 10:10 AM by alsame
different clips where 'protesters' were talking about Bo. Yes, Bo.

"It took the President 6 months to decide on a dog but he wants to rush health care reform."
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