Rep. Seth Moulton Faces Friendly Fire Back Home For Opposing Pelosi

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The rising Democratic star says making Nancy Pelosi House speaker would be “failing the American people.” Some in his Massachusetts district call him sexist.

By Kevin Robillard POLITICS 11/20/2018 08:23 am ET Updated 3 hours ago

AMESBURY, Mass. ― Over his four years in Congress, Rep. Seth Moulton has earned plenty of praise. He upset an incumbent accused of corruption in a Democratic primary in 2014 while downplaying his heroics as a Marine in Iraq. His support from top military officials ― he served as an aide to former Gen. David Petraeus ― and willingness to buck his own’s party’s leadership made him the subject of national magazine profiles and 2020 presidential speculation. He was the very image of a Democratic rising star.

Now, as that willingness to criticize top Democratic officials reaches its peak with his leadership of a coup against likely House Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi, Moulton is feeling the backlash. At a town hall in his district on Massachusetts’ North Shore on Monday night, activists confronted Moulton with accusations of sexism and ageism, mirroring the assault he’s facing from Pelosi allies in Washington.

“I’m totally pissed off,” said Linda Christian, 80, a retired lawyer who sharply questioned Moulton at the event. “I voted for him. I like this man. I think he’s shown, if not animus, stupidity.”

“He feels women are disposable, and elderly people are disposable,” she continued.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rep-seth-moulton-opposing-nancy-pelosi_us_5bf37a6ee4b0376c9e681223

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1. No matter for town hall. Moulton going the national audience fox route

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2. Well, SM is full of Bombastic Hyperbole, isn't he?

“I’m totally pissed off,” said Linda Christian, 80, a retired lawyer who sharply questioned Moulton at the event. “I voted for him. I like this man. I think he’s shown, if not animus, stupidity.”

I was wondering how that Town Meeting was going to turn out for him?..

Thanks, working

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4. I hope this jerk get primaried soonest!

[JaneQPublic]

3. A Roll Call article reaches a similar conclusion

Pelosi Rebel Seth Moulton Gets Pushback at Massachusetts Town Hall

Rep. Seth Moulton, one of a handful of Democrats leading the crusade against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s bid to reclaim the speaker’s gavel when Democrats take back the majority in January, caught heat at a town hall in his district on Monday.

“The majority of Americans want this change. The majority of Democrats want this change,” Moulton told constituents at a town hall in Amesbury, Massachusetts, to loud jeers of “No.”

Most of the constituents at the town hall Monday were there to ask other questions of the Massachusetts congressman, who won re-election with 65 percent of the vote in the 6th District. But a sizable number — roughly a third — were there to protest his calls for new leadership in the party, a position he has staked out for roughly two years.

Moulton has cited the Democrats’ sweeping victory in the midterm elections earlier this month, in which the party’s candidates won 56 percent of the combined vote nationwide, as a mandate to choose new leaders since many of the new members who flipped formerly GOP-held House seats campaigned on that premise.

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http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/pelosi-rebel-seth-moulton-gets-pushback-massachusetts-town-hall

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5. "The majority of Americans want this change. The majority of Democrats want this change," Moulton to

Total lie right there.

Unless he's talking about the majority of republicans of course.

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6. Which he has no business speaking for repubs or lying..

Here's another article on his town hall..

'He Was Indeed a Bit of a Douchebag' - By Josh Marshall

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211455227

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7. Listen to the crowd yell "NO!!!"

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