Texas Mobsters
Posted on 08/12/2009 10:32:04 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
More than 800 Texans converged at the Texas Capitol to counter a pro-ObamaCare event sponsored by a local chapter of Organizing for America - Barack Obama's team of community organizers who try to rally grassroots support for the president's key initiatives.
Hundreds of ObamaCare supporters were expected to attend a rally at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 9 at the state capitol, according to a post on the Organizing for America web site (see attachment below). At least 400 supporters signed up to attend the rally before the event page was taken down days before their rally was supposed to happen. Interestingly, organizers took down the event page after local conservative groups, including AFP, began circulating the event's information among their members.
On Sunday, somewhere between 800 – 1,000 supporters of a free market solution to the health care issue showed up at the Capitol to protest the OFA event, only to find that not a single pro-ObamaCare person could be found on site.
“It looks like the Organizing for America folks realized that they are heavily outnumbered on this issue,” said Cindy Mallette, Grassroots and Communications Coordinator for AFP-Texas. "A majority of Americans are opposed to the plan that is now in Congress, and it's no wonder why. The bill President Obama is trying to push through would add $1 trillion to the already bloated national debt. Government has been a failure at running Medicare, Social Security, the U.S. Postal Service and with fixing the nation's economy. What makes them think they'll do any different after taking over the health care system?"
The rally turned into an impromptu Tea Party when local doctors, small business owners, government workers and other ordinary Americans took turns talking to the crowd through a bull horn about why the proposed "health care reform" bill in Congress will be bad for the U.S.
Lizzette Scinski suffered an debilitating accident while working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Wyoming. Now unable to work, she told rally attendees that she must suffer through a government workman's comp program that denies much-needed treatments and limits her access to doctors:
The current plan before Congress will ensure that our freedom to choose our doctors, our health care plans, and our courses of treatment will be taken away and handed over to a government bureaucrat. It's not a made-up fable spread around by fatcats in the insurance industry -- it's a fact that President Barack Obama has himself stated that he wants to see take place:
Texas Mobsters
they do us proud. ;o)
of course she is not in the mob....she does not work for the government....nor does she live in NJ! (I can say that I live there).
So when Barack Obama and his team of community organizers rally their troops it is a grassroots movement?????
Liberals are not so quick to organize now that there is no more “Bush-Boogeyman” around to protest....besides, “The Daily Show” is on!
Y’all make me proud.
My heart is all aflutter . . . Texas simply . . . “You ROCK!” Fantastic citizen patriots every last one of ‘em.
I bet they’re both named “Guido”.
Love the gals with the signs. Wish I could have been there with them.
No the new singing group the “Guidoettes.” LOL.
Sweet! Thanks, Swinney!
Suggestion ....... Someone that is good at developing websites should come up with one where people can send in videos of each Town Hall meeting. Complete video’s of the meeting if possible, especially since the media won’t do it. The more info that gets out there, the better.
Tea Party Bump.
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Great post and great pic at #1, SS! Thanks!
Texas Ping! Ping! Ping!
Well done mob.
bump! bump! bump!
Dang It!
I have GOT to find a way to go back to Texas...
Good going.
Dang it! Why wasn’t I notified?
Organizing for America is a joke -- the "grassroots" peeps who support Obama don't do anything for free. It's an insult to their sense of entitlement.
When Obama/Axelrod determines that a statement needs to be made, and the media coverage is in place, the paid goons of SEIU arrive in lieu of the imaginary OFA volunteers.
In Texas, they obviously knew the deck was stacked against them, so a no-show.
Glad the good guys had fun, though!
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