Violence at Town Hall Meetings Committed by SEIU

August 8, 2009 (LPAC)—Despite claims blaming Republicans coming from the Democratic National Committee and Obama-allied spokesman, the only violence at the town hall meetings this week appears to have been committed by members of George Soros-linked Andy Stern's Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

In Tampa, Florida, 1,500 people showed up at a town meeting which was supposed to feature Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), which was organized by a local state representative, and co-sponsored by SEIU and Obama's Organizing for America. Local papers report that supporters of Obama's health-care plan were vastly outnumbered by opponents. The prime seats in the hall were reportedly given to Democratic party activists and SEIU union members who were let in through a back door, and that those in the front of the line never got in. One participant, who displayed bruises and contusions on a YouTube video, said he'd been attacked by a union member.

In St. Louis, Missouri, over 1,000 people, mostly opponents of the Obama plan, were locked out of Rep. Russ Carnahan's town meeting Thursday night, while Carnahan's staff were letting SEIU members in through the "handicapped" entrance. A conservative black activist was reported attacked and beaten by union members, both black and white. Six people, including a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, were arrested outside the meeting, two on suspicion of assault on the black activist.