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Mass Strike Process Overruns More Congressional Town Hall Meetings

August 9, 2009 (LPAC)—The mass strike process that Lyndon LaRouche described on Saturday, has been running over members of Congress from both parties with increasing intensity in the last days.

* In Kansas City, hundreds of people showed up for a regular monthly meeting, this morning, with Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver. He refused to talk to the crowd, instead meeting privately with 75 people, and then left after an hour for "another appointment." Those left outside the meeting stayed, holding signs, chanting and arguing with each other.

* On Aug. 7, Rep. Brian Baird of Washington received a faxed death threat a day after he described angry town hall protesters as "a lynch mob." He has canceled the rest of the town hall meetings he had planned for August.

* In Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 20 protesters greeted Rep. Scott Murphy to let him know they oppose Obama's health reform plan.

* Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) is avoiding the crowds by holding his meetings by telephone conference call which, of course, can be very tightly controlled. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) says he is concerned that media coverage of outbursts at town hall meetings will only intensify public skepticism about the health care plan, but he is still, according to the Baltimore Sun, planning such a meeting for Aug. 24, because "I want to hear different views."

* In St. Louis, the University City school district canceled a health care forum that Sen. Claire McCaskill was scheduled to hold there on Aug. 11 because of the "escalation of violence" at such meetings across the country. McCaskill's office said they will extend the time of another forum, also on Aug. 11, at Jefferson College, to two full hours.

* Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) found himself surrounded by more than 100 people during a meeting at a coffee shop last night. When they weren't arguing with him, they were arguing with each other, and many carried signs for or against health reform.

* In Georgia, Rep. David Scott stuck his foot in his mouth, when he denounced a doctor who got up to ask him some questions about health reform. Scott took him for a GOP political operative intending to disrupt the meeting, which was otherwise held to discuss a road project. Scott launched into a tirade attacking those he said were there to "hijack" the meeting. The tirade was filmed by a local TV station which confirmed afterward that the doctor was from Scott's district. The doctor told the TV reporters that he had called Scott's office repeatedly to try to talk to him about health care reform. "I went to the meeting to literally ask a question that I thought was very, very important for my patients," he said.

* Republicans are also facing angry crowds. About 150 people in Manitowoc, Wisconsin were not satisfied with Rep. Tom Petri's stated opposition to the Obama health reform plan. One combat veteran said of the plan "this craziness is not what we fought for." In North Carolina, Rep. Bob Inglis faced an angry crowd of 350 people, many complaining about socialism or that the government has gone far outside the strictures of the Constitution.


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