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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:26 AM
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Wisconsin "Just A Mom" Anti-Health Disruptor Turns Out To Be Republican Operative....
Edited on Fri Aug-07-09 11:33 AM by BlooInBloo
Well soooprise, soooprise, soooprise!



http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/07/woman-mom-gop/

Woman Who Said She Was ‘Just A Mom’ At Town Hall Meeting Is Exposed As A Republican Operative

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.




Video and more at the link.
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tabbycat31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:29 AM
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1. sort of like Joe the Plumber right?
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:30 AM
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2. birthers and anti healthers lie like shag rug.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:31 AM
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3. I wonder if she got money forr being there??
I can't WAIT for what K&R have to say about it.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:31 AM
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How remarkable: she's local.
;-)

I guess that's why she was the one interviewed. Can't have the folks bussed in from Florida -- they may not talk like Wisconsinites.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:33 AM
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6. Hiring Tina Fey would work though, I think.
:P
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:31 AM
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4. Another right wing idiot who doesn't understand how the internet works
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Maestro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:34 AM
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8. Seriously.
Do these idiots think they can just lie, lie and not be discovered? Of course, reich-wingers are pathological liars so she probably doesn't realize what she says will be verified.
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:39 AM
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12. Sure, they are discovered but that doesn't seem to matter any more.
Lying is expected and even honored in the RWing.

And the media doesn't really care to expose it. They have more news about MJ's brain to cover first.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:46 AM
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19. I am very careful about what I put on my facebook page
I constantly get friend requests from people I don't know. I decline them. My family uses FB to stay in touch or I would just drop my account.

But anyone with a fraction of knowledge of how the internet works knows the first place anyone who is looking for you on the internet will go is FB.
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oldtime dfl_er Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:44 AM
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18. sssh...
we don't want them figuring it out...

morans!
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seafan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:32 AM
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5. Please send this to Keith and Rachel. n/t
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BlueIdaho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:33 AM
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7. Now that she's done her brown shirt good deed for the day
Does she get to turn her swastika arm band right side up?
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theoldman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:36 AM
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9. Maybe she is Joe the Plumbers relative.
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:37 AM
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10. Ummm..."distortions"???
“not affiliated with any political party.”


vs

currently a member of the Republican Party for Kagen’s district, as well as the Republican Party of Wisconsin, and the Republican National Committee.

Now to me, that ain't "distortions".

That's flat-out lying bullshit.

aka "republican".
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JBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:37 AM
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11. Good for the local NBC station - showing the grass to be astroturf.
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LeftinOH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:40 AM
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13. She's one of many; now, let's try finding out who the other disruptors *really* are
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marshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:41 AM
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14. She probably "left" the party because she didn't like McCain
Too maverick-y for her.
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:41 AM
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15. Well.. GOLLLLEEEEEEEE... will this be reported to Chuck Todd?
It's the brooks brothers riot bullshit again. The insurance industry lobbyists will stop at nothing to fight this. This is how they trashed Hillary for trying to bring us health care. They will stop at nothing to protect their interests... as I pay more and more every month just to have catastrophic coverage for myself with an insane deductible.

It's okay.. all those good folks who are just out there protesting out of their deep conviction that this is wrong will ensure that we will have to hold a fucking bake sale to pay my unpaid costs should I need that skimpy policy. I really hate those assholes right now.
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:01 PM
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24. I sent the information to MSNBC, and encourage others to do the same.
:hi:
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:42 AM
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16. america should wake up: GOP PAYS operatives because no one supports their causes
in large enough numbers.
yet, their causes are always caved in to.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 12:10 PM
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22. A few people, a lot of money
all it takes.
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Uben Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:42 AM
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17. Can't even do that right!
Talk about incompetent! That bitch must really be stupid. She can't even disrupt a townhall meeting disguised as an average mom without failing. The instructions were simple, "Go to meeting, act stupid, be loud, don't get caught." No wonder republicans are doing so bad. Well, I guess she didn't quit, that's more than Palin did!
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:47 AM
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20. 'Zactly. n/t
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:48 AM
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21. Pathological
liars.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:00 PM
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23. Yep. Sickening, isn't it?
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:02 PM
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25. Are all republicans liars?
Edited on Fri Aug-07-09 02:03 PM by redqueen
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:03 PM
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26. Lying liars and the lies they tell.
She's a damn fine Republican, she is.
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