~ Unions To Take On Astro-Turfers at Health Care Town Halls! ~ Huff Po

[mzmolly]

The nation's largest federation of labor organizations has promised to directly engage with boisterous conservative protesters at Democratic town halls during the August recess.

In a memo sent out on Thursday, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney outlined the blueprint for how the union conglomerate would step up recess activities on health care reform and other topics pertinent to the labor community. The document makes clear that Obama allies view the town hall forums as ground zero of the health care debate. It also uses the specter of the infamous 2000 recount "Brooks Brothers" protest to rally its members to the administration's side.

"The principal battleground in the campaign will be town hall meetings and other gatherings with members of Congress in their home districts," reads the memo. "We want your help to organize major union participation to counter the right-wing "Tea-Party Patriots" who will try to disrupt those meetings, as they've been trying to do to meetings for the last month. ...

(Remember the hooligans - many of them Republican Congressional staff - who harassed Florida vote counters in 2000? We can't let that happen again!)."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/06/unions-to-take-on-conserv_n_252720.html">More at >>> HUFF-PO

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Let's see the astro-turfers try and take on the real grassroots, the unions! :evilgrin:

[Frustratedlady]

1. Good! I don't think I'd want to confront some of these guys...

Maybe we can get back to the basics of democracy and have intelligent debate without interruptions.

[mzmolly]

2. Me either!

And, I'm so glad someone is launching a counter "astro-turf" movement. :hi:

[elleng]

3. EXCELLENT!

[mzmolly]

4. Thanks for the mystery recs folks!

:hi:

[lamp_shade]

5. Big morning kick and rec.

[mzmolly]

6. Thanks!

:hi:

[damonm]

7. BIG ol' K&R - now we get the Teamsters on board too...

[Dinger]

8. "Mystery K & R From Dinger

:patriot: :headbang: :yourock:

[mzmolly]

10. LOL

:hi:

[ieoeja]

9. K&R

[SpartanDem]

11. K&R