Rep Louise Slaughter (D-NY) Cites Violence As Reason Not To Hold Public Meetings

SLAUGHTER FEARS SAME

Dem's Laundry List Of Excuses For Town Meeting Refusal







One thing can be said for embattled Democrats during town hall meetings: at least they're willing to meet with constituents. While some elected representatives have shown both defiance and arrogance when faced with angry voters, it's still a step ahead of others who remain in hiding, afraid to confront the unpopularity of their proposals.

And in a league of her own is Rep Louise Slaughter (D-NY-28), who has devised a laundry list of bizarre excuses for avoiding voters in Western New York during a time when others have attempted to pitch ObamaCare to a skeptical public.

Citing fear of a violent slaughter, including that supposedly aimed at Obama, Slaughter addressed the matter during Ron Reagan's Air America Radio show.

According to her website, she has instead held conference calls with small groups of voters.

Here's the exclusive transcript and clip:

SLAUGHTER (14:48) (on why she is not holding any town hall meetings during the recess): I’m not doing town meetings; I’m not going to give those people a forum. I went through it with the Clinton health care bill, with the John Birch Society, where we had to have police around, and people hysterically crying…

And frankly, to tell you the truth Ron, my own dignity, and the dignity of the office I hold, is important to me; and I know what that is. It is not a spontaneous uprising of my constituents; I’ve got the best relationship with my constituents anybody can ever imagine.

I’m known as just "Louise", from one end of it to the other, and they know I’m not going to do anything to hurt them, and I’m not going to give these other people, who, when you come down to it, a large number of them are anti-government, they don’t want Medicare or Social Security either; and the notion that they showing up with guns, I think, is totally dangerous.

Your father was shot, we’ve had too many presidents assassinated, I can’t believe President Obama said it was not a concern to him.

Obviously, this is disingenuous at best: older voters appearing at these rallies are worried they'll lose their Medicare coverage, they're certainly not against the program at all.

The primary incident with gun-toting meeting participants turned out to be a radio stunt, according to the Huffington Post, a left-wing site.

And John Birch Society members? Do they still exist? Where has that been an issue, anywhere?

The biggie, of course: who are "those people"? They're the voters of her congressional district!

Perhaps Slaughter's fear of voters stems from a long period of not having to interact with them: she hasn't faced a real election-year threat since 1986, when she was first elected.


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