FreedomWorks: 'Turn Up The Heat' And Make Sure Dems Are Afraid
FreedomWorks, an industry-funded group that helps fund and organize tea parties and other protests, has released an "August Recess Action Kit" to urge health care reform opponents to attend town hall meetings and "turn up the heat" on their representatives.
The kit includes postcards that read, "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she's 'not afraid of August,' but she should be." The cards, which you can send to friends and neighbors, also has space for the place and time of the next local town hall.
And there's a letter that says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Obama should also be afraid.
It may be true that August is just a month, but it's also true that the longer we have to expose the real intentions and the economic ramifications of the Cap and Tax and health care reform legislation on the table, the more afraid Ms. Pelosi, Senator Reid, and President Obama should be.
FreedomWorks also includes a helpful Google Map of upcoming town halls, and encourages supporters to email pictures and videos of the events they attend.
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Sargent reports that OFA for the first time is notifying members and requesting attendance at Town Halls
Not a minute too soon either
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/health-care/obamas-political-operation-calls-on-supporters-to-get-dems-backs-at-town-halls/
August 6, 2009 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Use their map to thwart them... Go to the same places they are going.
August 6, 2009 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
They're openly promoting terrorism now? Do these people know the meaning of 'backfire?'
August 6, 2009 12:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here is some advice for everyone that is concerned about the Teashirt brigade. Get your lefty liberal friends and go disrupt a Republican Congressperson's townhall meeting. Take notes about how THEY deal with your ass.
August 6, 2009 12:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
especially the republicans who are fanning the flames or otherwise snarking now
give 'em a taste of their own medicine
ask them what *their* plan is for health care? more of the same?
August 6, 2009 6:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just do it quietly, inconspicuously, and respectfully. Imagine a legislator all ready to assure his constituents that he will kill reform, only to find that nine out of every ten questions from the audience are about why we don't do single payer since it's so much cheaper or whether the legislator is willing to abolish medicare since government funded healthcare is so bad. In other words, do outnumber our opponents, but don't stoop to their level. We don't even have to get people outside of the district or state to attend like they do, as even in the reddest districts you can find at least forty or so people in favor of reform. Just make sure nobody has any clue of your political position before you ask your question. That means don't bring signs or t-shirts. It might also help to replace your pro-Obama bumper sticker with a pro-NRA one temporarily :-P.
August 6, 2009 10:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's Obama and especially Reid's own fault. Why do you think the GOP was so desperate to see that there was no canceling of recess and a healthcare vote? Because they knew they had these antics up their sleeve.
Reid is a bought-and-paid for Republican tool. It's too bad that he's untouchable. Vote out Specter - it's the next best thing to send a message to Reid.
And what are Dems supposed to do when they go to these meetings? Get into a fight? The GOP have won this battle, let's hope it's not the decisive battle in the healthcare war. If meaningful healthcare reform that Obama had promised during the election is defeated, it falls squarely on his shoulders.
I love how he comes calling to the OFA list members now, he seems to want to pick and choose when his supporters are allowed to have a voice or not. Maybe if he wasn't so worried about reaching out and being bi-partisan he'd have folks on the ground willing to fight the fight with him. However he has alienated a lot of his base in order to appeal to the right, and now the right is fighting him and he wants to come crawling back?
Do something about Bush/Cheney war crimes and then you can ask me to do a damn thing.
August 6, 2009 6:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Poor Walter Mitty, no more secret life for him. R.I.P. James Thurber, you aren't responsible for what people do with your characters.
August 8, 2009 1:23 PM | Reply | Permalink