GOP Congressmen Put Constituents Who Asked Tough Questions On A ‘Watch List’

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GOP Congressmen Put Constituents Who Asked Tough Questions On A ‘Watch List’
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/26/305501/webster-town-hall-watchlist/

In recent weeks GOP congressmen have resorted to all sorts of underhanded schemes to avoid interacting with their angry constituents back home over August recess. Now two Republican freshmen, Reps. Daniel Webster (R-FL) and Tim Griffin (R-AR), are taking this trend one step further, using disturbing intimidation tactics and “watch lists” to discourage constituents from asking them questions:

Rep. Webster’s Winter Garden, Florida district office gave out a “Watch List” of six Floridians who had asked questions at Webster’s previous town halls. The list, with the header “For the Media,” included names, photographs, and questions that members of the media should ask them.

The Watch List itself doesn’t contain any information on who wrote it or where it comes from.The memos surfaced in Arkansas in connection to the office of Rep. Tim Griffin, and were traced back to Rep. Webster’s office.

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In April, ThinkProgress reported from Webster’s home district about a town hall where he faced a barrage of criticism for defending his support for tax breaks for the rich and the Medicare-ending Paul Ryan budget. One of the constituents ThinkProgress interviewed, Tamecka Pierce, ended up as #5 on the “Watch List.”



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[WI_DEM]

1. Wake up America! don't you see what you elected!?

[peace frog]

4. In most parts of Florida, voters go with anyone who has the "R"

Voters know little or nothing about the candidates themselves, all they need to know is that they are Republican.
Stupid, certainly, but welcome to Flori-DUH.

[LiberalFighter]

2. I tried leaving a comment at ThinkProgress but they don't allow anything but FaceBook

My thought that I was going to leave was.

Turning it back on them and ask if the media checking the ties that those elected officials have.

Did you illegally obtain information because you were a crooked attorney during the Bush administration?

[yellowcanine]

3. Republican Politicians like their little lists. McCarthy, Nixon.....

McCarthy had his list of commies, Nixon had his list of enemies and his hit list for the plumbers led by G. Gordon Liddy. Liddy was actually prepared to assassinate Jack Anderson if he got the order to go ahead.

These guys are pikers compared to them.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. I saw Jack Anderson speak once.

He joked that the government was trying to get him to eat his steering wheel, to poison him.


:rofl:

[Brother Buzz]

5. Tim Griffin loves his lists

First illegal caging lists, and now the 'Watch list'.

[salin]

6. Thought of the same thing.

[Cool Logic]

7. This is one of the reasons Congress' approval rating is in the teens...

On the other hand these guys have an excellent chance of being reelected no matter what they do.

Whose fault is that?

[tblue37]

11. Diebold and ES&S, sometimes. nt

[gratuitous]

8. And yet these folks can't discern any connection between . . .

Say, the Koch brothers and the Tea Baggers. Or between Breitbart and O'Keefe. Or between their ass and a hole in the ground.

[hifiguy]

10. So what's next?

Webster going to send Major Hochstetter around to ask zome qvestions, ja?

[ThoughtCriminal]

12. "Are you now have you ever been..."

What?