Jim DeMint's idea of a town hall:

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Senator Jim DeMint, who has promised to "break" President Obama as our representative in the US Senate, has scheduled his first Town Hall meeting for Monday, August 17 at 7:30 at the Daniel Island Club, at 600 Island Park Drive, on Daniel Island, Charleston. I won't be going, but if you want to you can email [email protected] to RSVP.
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The Town Hall Breakfast has been set for 7:30 am on Monday. It's on Daniel Island. There is no public transit to that community. It's virtually inaccessible for the tens of thousands of people who don't have a private automobile. Jackson doesn't have a drivers license yet. He's in lessons. However last week he negotiated the Chicago Transit system for three days, the cab fare we gave him stayed in his pocket.

DeMint's Breakfast is being held in a private country club. It's actually a meeting of the Daniel Island Neighborhood Association, an organization noted for its violent opposition to working class housing on their island. The newspaper announcement says, "The senator will talk about economic development and jobs in South Carolina and give an update on Washington. Healthcare reform, which rated less than two pages in his recently published book isn't mentioned in the notice.
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The location and host of the meeting sends a powerful message to large groups of people that they're not welcome. The Daniel Island Club has a perfect right to be private, but the Senator's job is a public one and healh care reform is a public issue. He should be holding a public forum in a public place. He may have sold his influence to the Club for Growth (his largest contributor, whose members would feel comforatable at a country club) and the health care industry whcih has given him over two million dollars, but he still works for the people.
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It has all been rigged to guarantee that the room will be full of wealthy, retired people in sympathy with Demint's no tax, no government, Jesus as a footnote to every policy plan for the future. They'll be older and their natural anxieties about their own mortality and their alienation from the rapidly changing world they're no longer daily engaged with will make them easy targets for the myth spinning fear mongers to exploit. Most won't care about the 7OO thousand South Carolinians who don't have health care, our public schools or the declining level or real wages. They will come to agree with DeMint and he will come to agree with them. He'll probably sell some of his tedious books full of disconnected logic, right wing urban mythlogy and whatever he picks up during the bible studies at the C Street house.
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After that, we'll be back, clipboards, laptops, folding tables and everything else to support our President, the one who is an American Citizen born in Hawii. So will a lot of our friends. We'll not be beaten this way and we won't assent live in a nation governed on the basis of who has the least work to do and who can yell the loudest. Enjoy breakfast with your friends Jim DeMint. We're determined to serve a big platter of justice, healthcare, hope and change before Thanksgiving.

The rednecks may win this battle, but we won't surrender to them on the ground, in our heads or in our hearts. However, I won't fight them on ground of their choosing at the moment they select. I will fight them later, elsewhere to win for our President, our State and the future of our nation.
http://www.indigojournal.com/diary/1090/deny-daniel-is-teabagger-breakfast-with-demint

Asshole!

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1. The time 7:30am pretty much guarantees a high percentage of retirees from that community too.

Someone needs to get to work on organizing church and rec center vans to transport people from working class neighborhoods to get there.

Just as hard as we worked to get Obama elected? We should to be helping him now. He can't do it all on his own.

The motto was "Yes We Can."
Not "Yes He Can."

[Buzz Clik]

2. Excellent thinking!