Voters brilliantly troll Jason Chaffetz with bills after he accuses them of being paid protesters

[deminks]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/voters-brilliantly-troll-jason-chaffetz-with-bills-after-he-accuses-them-of-being-paid-protesters/

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said a rowdy group of constituents who showed up at his town hall event last week were “paid” to protest him. Now, some of those alleged “paid protesters” are sending the congressman a bill for their efforts.

The auditorium at Brighton High School in Cottonwood Heights, where Chaffetz held his town hall, was at full capacity last Thursday. About more 1,500 people were left outside, many with signs criticizing Chaffetz and urging the House Oversight Committee chairman to investigate President Donald Trump.

But the following day, Chaffetz said the attendees’ criticism reflected “more of a paid attempt to bully and intimidate” than the actual views of his constituents in Utah’s 3rd District.

“You could see it online a couple days before, a concerted effort in part to just cause chaos,” he told The Deseret News. “Democrats are in disbelief that they have nothing but flailing and screaming to deal with this.”

Now, as the DailyKos reports, some of these attendees are wondering why they weren’t paid. They’re sending Chaffetz a bill.

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[Lucinda]

1. :)

[Phentex]

2. These people are so dumb...

Where exactly does he think this money comes from? What an idiot!

I love the idea of sending him a bill.

[gratuitous]

4. Chaffetz knows his audience

It will become an article of faith (if it hasn't already) that anyone protesting against conservative office holders is paid to do so. There doesn't need to be any of that pesky proof, just keep saying it. Like the Bowling Green Massacre and the busloads of Massachusetts voters flipping New Hampshire, this will all be part of a complex tapestry of the Most Hideous, Awful, Unfair Things That Never Happened to conservatives. They will ponder these things and keep them in their black little hearts, sure that any loss of their popularity among the Real Americans is a product of this fraud and deceit.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Who came up with this paid protesters crap, anyway?

[Volaris]

10. Republicans pay for protesters, so they assume Democrats must have too, as well.

[gratuitous]

11. Political jiu-jitsu

Remember when Trump came gliding down the escalator to announce his candidacy, and there was a suspiciously large and enthusiastic crowd waiting to greet him? Yup, turned out the Trump campaign had put out a casting call in the local acting community in New York City to pump up his audience. For some reason, that story of something that actually happened hasn't had quite the staying power of, say, Barack Obama's birth in a foreign land, which didn't happen.

Probably a mystery for the ages, whose unraveling will have to await a date in the far future.

[sarcasmo]

14. Faux News claims protesters get fifty bucks an hour. Faux news makes up garbage and the rubes

spread the rumor as truth.

[shenmue]

3. Ha!

[MagickMuffin]

5. Projection Again: This is something that they do

They shift the focus on others as doing what they always do!

Beware of mirrors, JC.

[Cha]

6. chaffetz is a lying pos. Good on the Protesters.. this will not end well for him

[Alice11111]

13. !!POS. I hope u are right that it doesn't end well.Thanks to the folks calling attention to him

[Cha]

15. So do I, Alice..

I really hope it ends badly as it should.. that would be good for the People

[wildeyed]

7. Politicians who are bought and paid for by special interests

turn around and accuse constituents exercising their 1st amendment rights of being paid for. That is SO rich. These guys are so completely out of touch with the real world that they feel comfortable demonizing their own voters for small partisan gain. That strategy is BOUND to bite them in the ass.

When I moved to NC, Jesse Helms was still a senator. Horrible person, but he understood how to do constituent outreach. If you were a constituent and contacted his office with a problem, he fixed it. Didn't matter if you were a Democrat. And he earned some votes he would not have normally gotten that way.

[phylny]

8. That could be a great comeback:

"These demonstrators are being paid to protest!"

...says the man who is bought and paid for by special interests.

[wildeyed]

12. Perfect!

And true. Maybe that is why they assume that voters who protest are paid. Because they NEVER do anything unless they get paid first so they assume everyone is corrupt.