McCain told the constituent that what he was saying was not true and that he could not allow him to misinform the audience. Is that not what McCain has been doing?
It wasn’t a surprise when a woman at a town hall event in Ohio told Mitt Romney that President Obama should be tried for treason, which is punishable by death. The surprise was that Mitt Romney failed to challenge her call to charge President Obama with treason.
Republican Rep. Dan Benishek of Michigan is a supporter of the Paul Ryan plan to destroy Medicare, and his constituents are not amused.
For years, Republicans have pushed the idea that President Obama is a secret Muslim, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that when a woman called the Commander in Chief an ‘avowed Muslim,’ Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum didn’t challenge her crackpot claim.
When a mother with two children and two jobs expressed her concern about Pell Grants, which she relies on to pay for college, during a town hall held by Republican Congressman Steve Womack in Arkansas last week, she probably didn’t expect his reaction.
Paul Ryan told a student at a Wisconsin town hall earlier today that he should work three jobs to pay for college instead of using Pell Grants.
At a town hall event in which people had to pay $15 to attend, Paul Ryan kicked out five people and had three arrested, all for asking questions he didn’t like.
At a town hall event in Florida yesterday, GOP Representative Steve Southerland took a question from a constituent about his salary. He proceeded to tell the good people he supposedly represents that his salary is small considering how many hours he puts in and the risks he runs.
