Rep.Peter King says he's refusing to do town halls because angry protesters 'diminish democracy'

[spanone]

you can't make this ignorant shit up....

(CNN)Rep. Peter King said Thursday that he won't do town hall meetings because he believes they would just devolve into a "screaming session," adding that angry town halls "trivialize" and "diminish" democracy.

The New York Republican noted his many appearances on national television and meetings with supporters and opponents of Obamacare in his office.

"As best I can tell, there are people who are angry, we saw that on election night -- the Hillary people basically went into depression when Donald Trump won," King said on AM970 The Answer. "The anguish on the campuses. There are people who are just angry, they're angry that Trump won, that Hillary lost. There's others who are being, I guess, egged on, if you will. So I'm assuming that they're all legitimate, but to me it just does not serve a purpose. It really diminishes democracy if you're gonna show up to a meeting to just scream and yell.

"In my case, I am not having these town hall meetings because to me all they do is just turn into a screaming session," he said. "What I am doing, I have done every national TV show."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/24/politics/kfile-pete-king-town-halls/index.html

[TreasonousBastard]

1. He's right, but...

it was the teabaggers who started it all by attacking Democratic town halls. I remember how Tim Bishop was almost afraid of appearing in public because of teabagger badgering.

Now, Democrats have learned this trick, but it's still a dirty one.

[vi5]

3. How is it dirty?

Holding politicians accountable by engaging in the right to protest is a dirty trick? Nobody is threatening anyone to my knowledge. There's no actual reason for any of these politicians to fear for their safety.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. It's not holding them accountable-- it's angry screaming where nothing gets done.

[jimjc]

9. Are you serious

The rebooblicons aren't interested in getting anything done. They just want to stuff everything down Democrats throats.

Would you be angry if your life and millions more were hanging on healthcare that the rebooblicons are going to repeal! huh!

[TreasonousBastard]

11. I've been to them...

Some Republicans are actually responsive to their constituents, and some Democrats aren't.

But, either way, these meetings are often disrupted by fringe elements who will not let anyone be heard.

[jpak]

2. Coward

yup

[lapucelle]

4. King can't hide from us for long.

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/travel-ban-border-wall-protests-outside-rep-peter-king-s-long-island-office-1.13062170

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/immigration-rally-planned-outside-peter-king-s-office-1.13172638

[smirkymonkey]

5. I don't think he knows what that word means.

Stupid and cowardly man!

[C_U_L8R]

7. Put on your big boy diapers, Pete

and face your constituents.

[BigMin28]

8. No Mr. King

It is you repukes, and your humper in chief that are diminishing democracy.

[jimjc]

10. king is a

rebooblicon that only wants to talk to people that agree with everything he wants.

That's the way all REBOOBLICONS are

[Trumpdumper]

12. How truly sad

He was one of the good guys, one of a handful of GOPers that stood with Clinton during the Impeachment Crusades.

Now he's just making up shit.