Where the shit are these town halls?

[dante3000]

I really want to see one of these cluster fucks, but I can't find news on any that are going to occur in my area, only the ones that have occurred.

Anyone?

[controlthebleeding]

holy shit.. ahhahahaha... that's a awesome photo, even if it is photoshoped or not.

[kurtz]

Arlen Specter had one in a town about 20 min. from where I live, Lewisburg, PA. I didn't know about it until too late. Around 1000 people showed up but only 345 got in.

Here are some of the highlights from my local newspaper:

Over and over, members of the audience asked questions and became agitated over aspects of the House bill, some of them brandishing copies and reading directly from it. One questioner pointed to a part which read the government would have access to the bank accounts of those electing the public option.

Specter seemed surprised by that.

“Read the bill!” the audience shouted.

“I repeat, this is not the Senate bill,” he said.

Specter later told reporters he did not read the 1,000-page House bill and wasn’t interested in doing so because it isn’t what he will be voting on.

But he told the crowd: “Government should not have access to the bank accounts of people electing the public option.”

One member of the audience sought to hold his feet to the fire: “We hope you will stand up for that,” he said.

Several people who obtained the right to ask questions said they were very afraid by the proposals so far.

“My main concern is for my freedoms,” said a woman who held the 10th questioner spot. “I am very, very scared. I believe we have a vehicle not for health care, but a vehicle that takes us down a path of total socialism.”

When rousing applause greeted her statement, Specter quipped: “Well, only three people stood up.”

Then, nearly the whole roomful of people stood, applauded and cheered.

“Do you hear us now?” one man shouted.

Questioner 10 continued: “We have a bill that says the government’s going to do this and the government’s going to do that,” she said. “I want to remind you we are the land of the free.”

The room again erupted into applause.

“What are you going to do to uphold our freedoms?”

Questioner Five said she is a 33-year-old mother with a number of medical conditions not related to her lifestyle.

Sections of the bill tell her that her medical options will be decided by “some bureaucrat who sits behind a desk getting better insurance than I do,” she said.

She asked Specter: “When they stop my medication and stop my treatment, who’s going to take care of my children after I’m dead?”

A bit taken aback, Specter said the plan is going to be designed to give care.

“The object,” he said, “is to give you as good a plan as I have.”

Once again, the audience responded with laughs and jeers.

[dutchrudder]

just contact the RNC, they have a list of every town hall

[enjoyadrian]

hahah @ the pic

[dcstrange87]

Love the picture....but all this Town Hall stuff is pretty scary, just watching the clips of these people give me the chills. If this would have happened during Bush's time those people would be branded terrorists and haters of America and freedom...now, to some, they are patriots, go figure.