Wheelchair-Bound Woman Shouted Down At New Jersey Health Care Town Hall...

[Wetzelbill]

The face of the Republican Party is not a pretty one. The video is at the link. -WB

Wheelchair-Bound Woman Shouted Down At New Jersey Health Care Town Hall (VIDEO)

Congressman Frank Pallone (D-NJ), the man who recently "let it be known" that he'd step in should Gov. Corzine drop out of the New Jersey gubernatorial race, had his hands full at a town hall meeting in Red Bank last week.

More than 1,500 people showed up to talk health care, but things quickly turned ugly. Much like the unruly town hall meetings that have been going on across the country, the angry crowd held up bizarre and nonsensical posters of protest while hurling insults at Rep. Pallone, and each other.

A new low for these meetings may have been set when the crowd shouted down a wheelchair-bound woman with "two incurable auto-immune diseases" who had the gall to ask a question.

NJ.com has footage of the meeting:


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/02/wheelchair-bound-woman-sh_n_275472.html

[rockymountaindem]

1. Punks n/t

[bklyncowgirl]

2. I was there.

I don't remember the wheelchair bound woman--or maybe I couldn't see that she was in a wheelchair.

As the article says, the majority of the people there were at the meeting to disrupt and disrupt they did. We were outnumbered about three to one. They booed anyone and anything that they didn't like including a woman on their side who had the bad judgment to open her comment with a quote from Margaret Meade. She opposed health care reform but once the disruptors heard "Margaret Meade" they immediately assumed she was a liberal and booed and jeered her repeatedly.

We supporters were staring at each other saying "What the hell was that all about."

Clearly she should have quoted Adam Smith, or Ayn Rand or better yet Sean Hannity.

[subcomhd]

5. so

was there never a point where things settled down and questions were asked and others shut up?

[bklyncowgirl]

9. No. The disruptors kept shouting everyone else down.

At one point the cops threatened to remove one particularly obnoxious individual who was getting into an altercation with someone who supported reform but that was about it.

[saigon68]

3. A Right Wing Fascist take over is in the Works

I'll bet all the faces were white

[timtom]

4. I watched the video.

Thanks for posting, by the way.

It's exactly as I feared. They are ignorant, out-of-control freaking zombies!!

I'm on Medicare now, and, for me, it's great!

Some universal health care is better than no universal health care.

But the saddest part of this whole circus is the unwillingness to participate in reasoned dialog. Of course, that happens here on DU as well.

Thanks again.

[Historic NY]

6. I thought the ballot box decided this election, these people are the losers.

[Triana]

7. The only way a loud-mouth minority can keep control over the majority

is if the majority LETS them.

This stuff is preventable - WORKING suggestions have been posted on DU and the idiot politicians and their handlers ought to be following them. When they do NOT, they are letting the MINORITY control everything. I think they KNOW better.

[KatyMan]

8. Exactly, and bravo Triana

They don't get to win. They don't get to frame the debate. We can't let them. I've recently had an epiphany of sorts on this subject and have decided, however cliche, that "I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore". I don't care who you are, you spout right wing talking points, I'm in your shit. So far I've alienated most of my brothers and sisters :) but they're mostly idiots anyway.