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Tuesday evening 3 of us went to Kay Granger's town hall meeting in Lake Worth. I was so pissed by the time i left that i had to wait a day to write about it. While there, we ran into a couple of people from the tarrant count dem hq, and decided to meet again Wednesday evening at a coffee-house, where we discussed some strategies that we would like to share.
Tuesday, we arrived at the auditorium,found seats and listened to kay pat herself on the back for 30 mins or so. Then the floor opened up for questions. The second or third person called was a complete bigot, railing against "unbridled immigration from the south". His last sentence was something like "we shouldn't be lettin' them no-good brown thieves in here." THEN PEOPLE STARTED APPLAUDING HIM!
I couldn't stand it. Unexpectedly, even to me, i lept from my set, pointed at him (half-way across a large auditorium) and yelled at the top of my voice "YOU ARE A DISGUSTING PIG!"
The applause stopped and the room was silent for a second, then kay called on another questioner.
I was shaking and couldn't hardly think. My wife asked if i wanted to leave, but we stayed. After a few minutes, I went outside to smoke and a woman came out a couple of minutes after me (leaving), looked at me and said "you got pissed." Then, a second later, "I don't blame you." Then she walked to her car. She doesn't know how much i appreciated that, just knowing that someone in the room (besides those who came with me) was disgusted also.
Wednesday evening, we met back up with a few people from the county dem hq and a couple of dean people. Discussing the previous evening in general, we came up with some things that i think will be very effective. I really wish we had done this at kay granger's meeting:
Print up "FACT SHEETS" on every issue that the person (repug) holding the meeting will be bragging about...say, on the "death tax" and cutting taxes etc , and "FACT SHEETS" on every issue they just want to hide from, like cutting veterans benefits.
Wait till the question and answer period at the end, and every time a person asks a question about any one of these issues, your "crew" goes up and down the aisle handing out these "FACT SHEETS" while the repug is answering the question. If anything is said about it, just answer "Sir/Maam, You have 2 hours to express your opinion to us, i only have 30 seconds to express mine to you.
Hand out CD copies of symbolman's and amercan strangers flash animations to veterans at these meetings.
Lots more i'll get back to it later.
Let's get vicious and attack, people...
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