Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo

This is their newest strategy? I hope these kooks and ignorant thugs get all kinds of coverage and show the American people why the right-wing should never,ever, be in power again.....

Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo: ‘Yell,’ ‘Stand Up And Shout Out,’ ‘Rattle Him’

This morning, Politico reported that Democratic members of Congress are increasingly being harassed by “angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior” at local town halls. For example, in one incident, right-wing protesters surrounded Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) and forced police officers to have to escort him to his car for safety.

This growing phenomenon is often marked by violence and absurdity. Recently, right-wing demonstrators hung Rep. Frank Kratovil (D-MD) in effigy outside of his office. Missing from the reporting of these stories is the fact that much of these protests are coordinated by public relations firms and lobbyists who have a stake in opposing President Obama’s reforms.

The lobbyist-run groups Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, which orchestrated the anti-Obama tea parties earlier this year, are now pursuing an aggressive strategy to create an image of mass public opposition to health care and clean energy reform. A leaked memo from Bob MacGuffie, a volunteer with the FreedomWorks website Tea Party Patriots, details how members should be infiltrating town halls and harassing Democratic members of Congress:

sparks wrote:

I received an email that the "Patriots" of NWI are planning on staging a protest at Viscloskey's town hall meeting Monday night in Chesterton. However, I'm sure they'll be outnumbered 10 to 1 by Americans who have functioning brains.

...sorry, anyone with a functioning brain would not waste their time on Viscloskey...as long as you are there, however, ask him how the progress on finishing the flood control on the Little Calumet River is coming...

You may want to ask him about PMA Group ties, and John Murtha...

The Washington Post wrote:

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), chairman of the ethics committee, would receive three earmarks worth $9.5 million under Murtha's bill. That includes $4 million to clean up contamination at a former military air base in Alameda, Calif.; $2 million for "printed and conformal" electronics research; and $3.5 million for Stanford University aeronautical research into the use of paraffin-based rocket fuel.

Last month, Lofgren's committee announced it was investigating the ties between members of Congress and PMA Group, a lobbying firm run by one of Murtha's close friends. It did not name the members, but Murtha and fellow defense appropriation members Peter J. Visclosky (D-Ind.) and James P. Moran (D-Va.) have longtime ties to PMA and have orchestrated hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks to PMA clients in recent years. The PMA Group closed after an FBI raid late last year, and Visclosky's congressional records were subpoenaed in May by a grand jury investigating defense contracts.

LoisLane wrote:

sparks wrote:

I received an email that the "Patriots" of NWI are planning on staging a protest at Viscloskey's town hall meeting Monday night in Chesterton. However, I'm sure they'll be outnumbered 10 to 1 by Americans who have functioning brains.

...sorry, anyone with a functioning brain would not waste their time on Viscloskey.

Which is why we'll probably see some loud,ignorant,wingnut kooks there trying to disrupt.