Seems the DEM’s have stolen pages from the 2009 Tea Party playbook or are constituents turning on the GOP in 2017 and having them “shame” walk – PB/TK
Tea party, reversed? How GOP town halls look from the inside. Patrik Jonsson Christian Science Monitor Staff writer
Atlanta—Sitting in the front row of a congressional constituent day in Greensboro, Ga., with one of his daughters perched on his knee, Ron Denham felt like he was witnessing democracy in action.
The people at the meeting were loudly, assertively, and peacefully demanding accountability and clarity from a federal government official. This, Mr. Denham told his 10-year-old twin daughters, was a real-life “civics lesson.”
Then he walked outside after the event, and there “were state police cars everywhere.” Someone had called for backup. “Such a tremendous police response to free speech,” Denham says, dismayed.
Then former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory suggested that a series of similarly contentious town halls across the country were the result of paid protests.
As a result, Denham says he has gone from “galvanized” citizen to one “on fire.”
Until last month, Denham did not know which congressional district he lived in, he says in a phone interview. But last Friday, he drove an hour and a half from his suburban home near Atlanta to the constituent event held by the offices of Georgia’s two senators and a representative from a different district just so he could see and be heard.
He is one of the citizen activists who has risen up in what appears to be an uncanny reprisal of the 2009 birth of the tea party – but this time on the left.
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