Sunday, August 9, 2009
Town Halls
Used to think Town Halls with our congressmen, were places and opportunities to tell these people who work for us, whose salaries we pay, who fly home at our expense, and whose health care we pay, what we think of them. Yes, they work for us. They are not our superiors. They are supposed to be treated with respect but not to dictate to the American people, not to tell us to keep quiet and sit down if they don't like what we are saying. They work for us. We pay their salaries.
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Reps. Patrick Murphy (D-PA) and Alan Grayson (D-FL) spoke recently about the contentious health care town hall protests that lawmakers around the country are facing in their districts. These representatives and senators are facing , angry crowds, death threats, and disturbing bigoted harassment. Both Murphy and Grayson disagreed with members of the Republican leadership who have condoned this type of behavior
Grayson was especially critical of the recent chaos at Rep. Kathy Castor’s (D-FL) town hall, where crowds, inspired by Fox News’ Glen Beck, were banging on windows and getting into fist fights. Grayson said that such “disrespect” doesn’t reflect badly on Castor, but “on the people who show the disrespect for the democratic process.” He said that the positions and actions of such people deserve no legitimacy:
And I think in any society, you’re always going to have a certain percentage of people who are nuts. But these are not people who deserve any special recognition, much less glorification. You don’t treat people the way those people treated Kathy Castor. It’s wrong.
I look for intelligent, well-founded criticism of any bill because that’s how you make the bill better. But if you have people running around saying this bill is going to kill every old person in the country, how could you possibly show any respect for that silly point of view? It makes no sense to me.
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