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Perriello District Office Becomes Site Of Conservative Protest After His Pro-Health Care Bill Vote

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Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA), a freshman Democrat from a swing district who voted for the health care bill, is already seeing heated demonstrations back home.

Perriello's Danville office was the site of a protest organized by Americans For Prosperity, along with a counter-demonstration by health care bill supporters. The Danville News reports that the AFPers seriously outnumbered the pro-Perriello crowd: A margin of about 70 on one side, to five or six on the other.

Here's a video from the local ABC affiliate:

Late Update: The pro-Perriello demonstrators, the Virginia Organizing Project, maintain that there were in fact about 80 people on their own side, not the mere five or six that the local paper says. Here's a YouTube video, recorded by VOP volunteer Sho Dianat:

Late Late Update: It has come to our attention that this second video is from a set of demonstrations at Perriello's Charlottesville office, not the Danville office as we'd initially believed. We regret the error.

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November 10, 2009 1:39 PM   

Well, these people need jobs. I think if I was unemployed, I'd carry a sign and scream if I were paid enough.

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November 10, 2009 1:44 PM   

Here's a thought: invite them in and give them a pep talk on how this bill will benefit them, their kids, and their neighbors. Of course, you'd have to shut them up first. I think that was the point of all the yelling over the summer. If you never shut up, you never have to listen.

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November 10, 2009 2:25 PM   

Periello will be fine for reelection. It's like Paul Wellstone in 1996. The CW was that anybody who voted against welfare reform would lose.

Even Tom Harkin folded. But not Wellstone, who won in a landslide because people respected his principled conviction.

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