Tennessee Republican writes off voters worried about health care as 'extremists, kooks and radicals'

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory


TOM BOGGIONI
08 FEB 2017 AT 11:27 ET

A Republican congressman who has served his district for almost thirty years is refusing to hold a town hall in his district because he has no interest in hearing from “extremists, kooks and radicals.”

Rep. John J. Duncan Jr (R-TN), who was first elected to Congress in 1988, wrote an email saying he has “often been described as one of the most accessible members of Congress in this Country,” reports the Knoxville News Sentinel. Despite that he has no interest now in holding a town hall meeting to discuss the incoming Trump administration and listen to constituents who want to discuss GOP alternatives to the Affordable Care Act.

Duncan referred to the current “anger in politics,” saying he believes a town hall meeting “would very quickly turn into shouting opportunities for extremists, kooks and radicals.”

“Also, I do not intend to give more publicity to those on the far left who have so much hatred, anger and frustration in them,” he wrote. “I have never seen so many sore losers as there are today.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/tennessee-republican-writes-off-voters-worried-about-health-care-as-extremists-kooks-and-radicals/

[Chicago1980]

1. Well,

I guess that means that the people are going to have to take the town hall to Mr. Duncan's office.

[murielm99]

12. Go to his office in droves!

Keep people outside and in the halls until he has a town hall. It can be done politely, too.

[sagesnow]

2. Bravo!

Keep em on the run People!

[tenorly]

3. His constituents should have thrown money at him.

That's what one does with prostitutes.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Snowflake....

[snooper2]

8. a freaky looking snowflake

[hibbing]

9. Combover

Yeah, why on earth would people be angry? I just don't get it, their ACA coverage will be replaced with something so much better....right?


Peace

[Javaman]

14. certainly has the crazy-in-the-eye look down pat. nt

[TranssexualKaren]

5. Indivisible needs to adjust.....

Last night I went to my first Indivisible meeting. The program consists largely of intelligent ways average citizens can lobby congress. All of the methods sounded great in a normal political climate but I believe we progressives need to consider how we are going to adjust to this abnormal political climate in which Republicans are ignoring their constituents and falling back on what has become the default Republican strategy of : 1. Lots of cash. 2. Cheating and 3. Apealling to the lizard brain.

[onethatcares]

6. didn't take long

for the meme, "the far left" to come out.

What a bunch of whiners.

[Initech]

7. The GOP has become everything they hate about us.

Time for them to take a look in the mirror.

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. Projection, must be a requirement for the gop.

[MatthewStLouis]

10. Can we start a petition to revoke all congressional healthcare plans?!!

It also seems obvious someone else, besides the people, is paying them; maybe we should revoke congressional pay as well.

....

[dalton99a]

11. +1

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Ask the coward to say it again, to double down. Corner him in his alternate reality; he's a loser.

Make him lose by insulting voters and ignoring them.

[More_Cowbell]

15. Does he know what the word "representative" means?

I hope his constituents haunt him.

[Skittles]

16. like Trump, he thinks he is only there to serve IDIOTS

[machoneman]

17. He's the idiot....

...to think that only Democrats and Progressives worry about his team's efforts to take away health insurance many never had before. He'll learn his lesson at the ballot box as even wingers will throw out non-responsive representatives either though him getting primaried or yes, voting in a Democrat.

[Skittles]

18. I think in the end, the rightwingers will goose step

Dems need to concentrate on the people failing to vote

[roamer65]

19. Duncan can go fuck himself.