'Do your job,' 'meet with us' protesters shout, disrupting Deb Fischer's Lincoln speech
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Paul Hammel
LINCOLN Between 200 and 300 protesters, shouting phrases like Do your job and Meet with us, disrupted the final moments of a speaking engagement of U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., on Tuesday.
Fischer, back in Nebraska during a recess week for Congress, spoke at noon during a closed meeting of the Lincoln Independent Business Association at a downtown Lincoln meeting hall.
A group called Indivisible Lincoln had called for a protest to object to her unwillingness to schedule a town hall meeting with the general public while making time for a special interest group like LIBA.
As Fischer was wrapping up a question-and-answer session with LIBA members, a group of protesters who had gathered outside the Grand Manse building began entering hallways of the structure, chanting Do your job.
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(11,143 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Thank you to all the people showing up!!!
Please, keep doing this!!!
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(10,097 posts)Of course she didn't come in that entrance, entered and left from the back entrance. There is footage of her dashing to her car. My understanding is these LIBA meetings are usually open to the press, but guess what? This one was not. So, even in this red state, she can't face a few protesters and won't even take questions from the lame ass local media hacks.
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