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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:03 PM
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Dingell says town hall mobs remind him of the Ku Klux Klan
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Dingell says town hall mobs remind him of the Ku Klux Klan.

Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), currently the longest serving member of the House of Representatives, has been on the receiving end of some rowdy town hall meetings recently. People in attendance have displayed signs comparing President Obama to Hitler and one man even yelled at Dingell, saying “your healthcare plan is going to take healthcare away from my son and kill him!” When Dingell said it wouldn’t, the man repeatedly shouted “liar!” When asked last night on MSNBC about the angry mobs he has encountered, Dingell said they remind him of the days when he voted for civil rights in the 1960s:

DINGELL: Well, the last time I had to confront something like this was when I voted for the civil rights bill and my opponent voted against it. At that time, we had a lot of Ku Klux Klan folks and white supremacists and folks in white sheets and other things running around causing trouble.


Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/11/dingell-kkk/


Another town hall Dingell hosted last night in Michigan was more civil. “This is the first meeting we’ve been at over the last few days where people wanted to hear what I had to say, and I thank you for that,” Dingell said.


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/11/dingell-kkk/


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