Lobbyist Groups: Yeah, We're Packing And Disrupting The Health Care Town Halls
source: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/anti-health-care-reform-group-yeah-were-packing-a...
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Today, CPR--which is headed by disgraced hospital executive Rick Scott, and has enlisted the message men behind the Swift Boat campaign--has acknowledged their behind-the-scenes role in the outbursts.
Spokesman Brian Burgess tells Greg Sargent that CPR is distributing "town hall alert" flyers to people on its mailing lists and is reaching out to third party groups via online list serve.
Perhaps the most significant of these discussion groups is the called Tea Party Patriots, which is managed by Tom Gaitens, a field organizer for the industry-funded lobbying organization FreedomWorks. Members of this list serve were not only supplied with list of town hall forums, but with a strategy document outlining the same disruptive techniques we're seeing play out at health care public forums around the country.
The disclosure makes official what much of the reporting about the disruptions seemed to indicate: that industry funded groups--who stand to benefit if health reform legislation fails--are playing a significant role in organizing, and perhaps ginning up, the outbursts we're seeing at health care public forums around the country.
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artemis6
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These people have slowly destroyed much that was good in this country . WE must block their every move .
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artemis6
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bonesmattingly
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Im taking my bear mace to the closest town hall whatsit and dropping these jackoffs...really...do these lobby groups really hate America that much...in my opinion, these assholes should be forced to change bedpans in a psyche wards for the obese
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bonesmattingly
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jh64487
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"4 legs good, 2 legs legs better!"
(so odd to reread animal farm these days)
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jh64487
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Gravity_Man
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There's a Law prohibiting sawed-off shotguns but not a Law against sawed-off verbal shot. Yet. Personally I'm beginning to clean out everything I can fit in the dumpster because it looks like not too long from now my carcass may be living in my car, the only place left where I call the shots.
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Gravity_Man
