Tea Party Organizers Call Security On Seniors And Reporters

Tea Party Organizers Call Security On Seniors And Reporters At Event With Local Congressman
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/23/tea-party-amash-security/


As the backlash against the GOP’s plan to end Medicare grows, so does the attempt to block reporters from covering it. As ThinkProgress has reported, several Republicans are clamping down on citizen journalists at their events. But this weekend, the Tea Party of West Michigan took this to the next level.

At the Prince Conference Center at Calvin College in Grand Rapids Saturday evening, the Tea Party group hosted a fireside chat with Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) for Tea Party supporters. The event was not open to the public, though numerous senior citizens were told the event was a town hall and were turned away at the door. A few seniors gathered outside on the sidewalk to discuss the various issues they had hoped to discuss with Amash, including their disapproval of Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) Medicare privatization plan. While seniors spoke with ThinkProgress and a reporter from the Michigan Messenger, organizers from the Tea Party group called campus security, summoning eight officers to force six seniors and two reporters off the premises.

According to security, the people who called them said the seniors had thrown things at the Tea Party organizers.


Watch it:
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/23/tea-party-amash-security/

and their buddies are cheap thugs working the system for personal gain.

I am really tired of being a continual target for disdain.

Please...............

vote them in for practically every office local, state and DC.

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try to help you!

I asked you to stop,and so did many others.

Rather than listen to what you are doing with your words, you just defend your broad-brushing.

STOP.

NOW.

security for doing so, and you say 'they think R's are great' and maybe they'll wake up? They sound fairly awake to me. I note the 'youth vote' was not there to protest, but seniors were.

To hear people here, I should just be dead.

still fall for republican theoretic. I live in the middle of it. The latter are the ones I'm speaking of. Also, I'm a senior.

I'm a senior and I've never voted Republican in my life. I would venture to say there are probably thousands of seniors on just this board that could say exactly the same thing.

talking about the ones that still think the republicans are the greatest ever. PS: I'm a senior too.

Their way or the highway. Love the Constitution but hate the First Amendment. Teabags are smarter than teabaggers.

:rofl:

...so true!

They always try to hide their evil crap from the American People.

it should be investigated........

And it sounds like a campaign event and any money spent on it should be investigated to see how it was reported

Time to start holding their feet to the fire and investigate every thing they do

our alleged representative, Cory Gardner (R CO4), was the speaker at a Republicans-only event. About a dozen protestors were outside the building, carrying signs asking him to explain his vote against Medicare. The signs, and the people carrying them, were dripping from the cold and steady rain; the Republicans were apparently concerned that the soggy seniors might use their umbrellas for something other than their intended purpose and did call the police to remove the "crowd" to the sidewalk. The alleged representative, meanwhile, let us know via email that he will hold no open-to-the-public meetings until September.

Back in February his local office staffer took my info in order to set up an appointment to speak with Gardner one-on-one, she said it would take a couple of weeks as all his appointments are set out of his DC office. I'm still waiting.

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The Tea Party corporatists are throwing seniors under the bus? Shocking...

What exactly are they organizing -- empty chairs and port-a-johns?