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ProudLib72

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7. These people are not anyone's friends but their own

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Tue Mar 21, 2017, 12:05 PM

Mar 2017

Last edited Tue Mar 21, 2017, 12:45 PM - Edit history (1)

Congressmen cancelling town hall meetings and hiding from constituents.

No, these people want to do what is best for them and their party, not what is best for the people who elected them. And they feel they can work in private, without the need of the public knowing what they're up to.

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Michigan Republican caught plotting with aide to smear constituents as un-American for booing him [View all] riversedge Mar 2017 OP

Republicans DESPISE the American people, do you GET THAT YET people? ? ? ? ? Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #1

Exposed. ck4829 Mar 2017 #2

In normal times, this would generate an instant resignation. Nowadays, it's common behavior. LonePirate Mar 2017 #3

this saddens me terribly. barbtries Mar 2017 #4

Un-American to collude with foreign powers to undermine US elections too bucolic_frolic Mar 2017 #5

I'll bet he still does it n2doc Mar 2017 #6

These people are not anyone's friends but their own ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #7

No, he didn't. The mike picked up a comment by a reporter. Shrike47 Mar 2017 #8

Another Fascist masquerading as a Republican. sinkingfeeling Mar 2017 #9

There it is on hot mic- Republican plans media attacks on American citizens, over questions! Sunlei Mar 2017 #10

He didn't show up for a town hall about a month ago... llmart Mar 2017 #11