Igniting a Firestorm: CT Man's Memo Spurred Health Reform Protests

Need some help here detailing this guy's connections to Republicans & RW groups, and how his memo has been picked up by the RNC. Thanks!

Igniting A Firestorm: Connecticut Man's Memo Spurred Health Care Reform Protests
By DANIELA ALTIMARI The Hartford Courant

August 20, 2009

The memo urging citizens to vigorously challenge members of Congress at town hall forums this summer caught fire on the Internet and, before long, was shaping the roiling, and often rowdy, health care debate.

On Wednesday, the Connecticut man behind the memo, a slight figure in a gray suit with a scholarly air and a thick Queens accent, stood on the steps of the state Capitol to "set the record straight" about the three-page manifesto that has thrust him into the national spotlight and, he says, earned him the scorn of the Democratic establishment and liberal pundits.

Robert MacGuffie of Fairfield chastised critics who say he is nothing more than a front for a well-funded effort by corporate interests to derail the Obama administration's health care overhaul.

"Two weeks ago, my small group, Right Principles — and me in particular — were picked out of thousands of similar such groups by very powerful people in both the media and in the Democratic National Committee to be slanderously portrayed as a tool in the pay of a vast corporate conspiracy to manufacture town hall outrage at the president's health care plan," MacGuffie said.

http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-memo-man0820.artaug20,0,1606400.story

Glenn Beck lives in CT too. We are a blue state but we definitely have our share of toads. Of course, with all of their complaining they don't leave good old liberal CT, do they?

and Joe Lieberman...

Fairfield republicons. It's got to hurt leaving their nice gated communities and have to order Jeeves to take the Rolls to Hartford where they might actually encounter some poor folks that could conceivably touch them or something equally icky breath on them.

the horror.

thanks

Looks like he is a Libertarian/Tax Reform/Pro Gun/Anti Immigration/Birther

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:NFp5pz7Su0QJ:www.givemeliberty.org/user/congress/state.aspx%3Fstate%3Dct+ASST+SC+Robert+MacGuffie&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Robert MacGuffie is a "team leader" for "Give Me Liberty/We The People," a Libertarian/Tax Reform/Pro Gun/Anti Immigration group. They have connections with Robert Bob Shulz, who is the crazy anti-tax guy: see: http://www.givemeliberty.org/ and http://www.givemeliberty.org/cc2009TEMP.htm See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_the_People_Foundation and http://www.wethepeoplecongress.org/PROJ/REVOLUTION/0-Nutshell.htm



We The People held a conference in '04:

Give
Me
Liberty
2004

January, 2004

The Conference to
Restore Constitutional Order
and Reclaim Freedom

With these speakers:

Alan Keyes,
Bay Buchanan,
Joseph Farah (World Nut Daily),
Aaron Russo,
Hutton Gibson (Mel Gibson's father), etc.

See: http://www.givemeliberty.org/store/
Here's the webcast overview of the conference:
http://www.givemeliberty.org/wtp-tv/GML2004ArchiveOverview.htm

The are tied to the Birthers: (Bob Schulz on National Press Club) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6771521759788800576 and http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/UPDATE/misc2008/ChicagoTribune-ObamaLtr-Nov-2008.pdf

Fox News has this show called Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano who has had Bob Schulz on his show and there are many references on We The People's website to Fox News and this judge's show: http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:qNTaVqLrzRQJ:www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/25793602/freedom-watch-8-12.htm+freedom+watch+we+the+people&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

From this video, they also have John Dennis of We The People and he describes himself as a A pro liberty Republican. And apparently, Bob Schulz is planning to run against speaker Nancy Pelosi. (from the transcripts of video above)


Edited as he said he's never voted Repub