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In reply to the discussion: “She came right down in my face,” Sturtz said. “I was taken aback.” [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)Sturtz began immediately after the man with her intimidated Debbie Wasserman-Schultz into silence. When she took the floor again, Sturtz complained, and when Michelle began to speak, she started in on her.
This reminds me too much of the town hall meetings where the tea partiers yelled and didn't allow any information on health care reform to be discussed.
Such meetings are open to all, like the one where Giffords was shot and intended for sharing information within community and taking care of needs. Or in plainer terms, petitioning and speaking their greviances to their elected representatives.
People whose names and faces are not known to media, but whose time is valuable, get silenced when others who don't care about them come to disrupt. No one seems to think about their right to speak, only paid voices get to speak in the media, this is their only chance.
This was in a private home that was offered to use as a fund raising event as well as to raise consciousness on the plight of inner-city children who are being hurt by funds being cut, and centuries of discrimination. The FLOTUS respects her own time and has little of it to spare.
I find the vitriol against her and Obama in the big picture to be more offensive than anything a heckler does or doesn't get to do.