| The teabaggers are trying to turn out their band of ignorant shouters to the Clifton Park Price Chopper (Route 146 and Plank Road), for an event beginning at 9:30 a.m.
According to their e-mail clarion call, (also posted at a Yahoo Groups site):
As Murphy prepares to escape back to Washington we have one more opportunity to remind him how his constituents feel about the agenda in DC, most importantly the disastrous health care proposals. Murphy knows his seat is very vulnerable and we are having an impact, we really need a strong showing in Clifton Park tomorrow! Regardless of your district, Murphy's vote will affect all Americans. Hope to see you there!
For some indication of how wingnutty the locals are, click on the groups that compose the New York Liberty Council, which is the local coordinating outfit for tea parties and shout-down-your-Congressman events.
Clifton Park is centrally located and a longtime GOP stronghold, at the local level at least, like most of the 20th, so a large turnout of the rude and ill-informed is expected. As are lots of media.
Murphy has been making compromise noises about the public option (like a certain President), so it would help if he hears from constituents who support real health insurance reform.
And it would also help the overall cause of civil discourse if there are enough reform supporters there to inhibit the antis from shouting and disrupting, which actually happened at an earlier Murphy event I attended.
A Murphy Congress on your Corner in Lake George Thursday was evidently also civil, according to Maury Thompson of the Glens Falls Post-Star.
So, if you're in the Capital District and up early on Labor Day, please try to make it to Clifton Park to remind Murphy that the majority still, after all the shouting, want Congress to pass serious health insurance reform. |
