Wednesday, August 19, 2009

New wave of Hannitization

I got Hannitized in 1993-1994, before getting Hannitized was cool. It was the Hilary Health Care mess. Now we face another attempt from BHO.

But the more the Democrat politicians rig their town hall meetings or duck the town hall electronically, the more they will Hannitize their voters.

I expect a new wave of Hannitization to sweep the land before this health care takeover takes place. Leave a comment with your Hannitization story.


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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Alan Grayson hosts town hall meeting in Orlando

Honorable Grayson of our House of Representatives did not act like a leader last night. He acted like a suit, on account of his being owner of a big telephone calling card company. The article in the Orlando Slamtinel shows a missed opportunity. Can you see it?

Alan Grayson hosts town hall meeting in Orlando

By David Damron and Willoughby Mariano
Orlando Sentinel
August 18, 2009
Grayson's hastily called meeting took place in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union hall, which limited attendance to about 120 members of the public. It also was scheduled just after a regular meeting of local Democrats, some of whom stayed behind for the town hall in the scarce seats.

Outside the building, hundreds of frustrated people who could not get inside waved signs and chanted for and against the proposals.

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And the Fox news local reports more on the missed opportunity, viz.

Tensions flare at health care town hall
VALERIE BOEY, FOX 35 News
Tuesday, 18 Aug 2009,
12:24 AM EDT
Before the public meeting began at 7:45 p.m., the Democratic Executive Committee gathered for a special question and answer session with the congressman. While they were asked to give up their seats at the conclusion of the session, not all of them left.

Outside were dozens of angry people who thought they would have a chance to be heard.

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Grayson had the Orlando executive committee present. These are esperienced political activists. Also, there were tons of people to talk to, nore than could fit in the meeting hall.

Grayson ought to have shooed out his executive committee members, all of them, to let more regular civilians in. He ought to have told those executive committee members to stay out in the parking lot and improvise a mini-town hall meeting with the folks who could not get in. If he had a sense of leadership, he would have deployed his people to get the message out and broaden contact.

It is what I would have done.

Unfortunately he did not have this instinct. Instead, he kept his bodyguard close, like the suit that he is.

Monday, August 17, 2009

PROFILE IN COURAGE: Grayson picks union hall for "balanced" town hall meeting

The Orlando Sentinel reporter seems to be reporting several inconvenient facts about the Hon. Alan Grayson's town hall meeting at 820 Virginia in Orlando, 7:45 PM, Monday, Aug. 17.

Grayson picks union hall for "balanced" town hall meeting
David Damron
Orlando Sentinel
12:29 p.m. EDT
August 17, 2009
U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, picked a somewhat small union hall to host a town hall meeting tonight at 7:45, but a spokesman said the location was not picked to "stack the deck" and avoid critics.

Grayson's spokesman Todd Jurkowski said moments ago that the choice of venue -- the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union hall at 820 Virginia Dr., which holds 125 to 150 people -- was picked because it was free, available, and would not hold a crowd so large as to become unwieldy.

A union meeting will be breaking up right before the meeting is to start -- but Jurkowski said the timing of Grayson's session was not planned to keep out critics.


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This reminds me of all the innocent guys in prison. Somehow, they all got framed or something. Similarly, the honorable Grayson
  1. is not stacking the deck,
  2. is not avoiding critics,
  3. did not time the event to pre-fill the hall with IBEW union thugs,
  4. and did not withhold notice until the day of the event to keep it out of the news as long as possible.
No, Hon. Grayson is innocent.

And if a politician claiming innocence is not enough, it appears that the address they published is just a narrow storefront, not designed for crowds. Maybe this is just a coincidence.

And regular IBEW meetings are mostly on Tuesday nights. Why all of a sudden on a Monday night?


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What a profile in courage. Honorable Alan Grayson, multi-zillionaire, cannot risk exposure to his constituents without a bodyguard from IBEW. What a joke.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Why pharmaceutical companies were puffing up Kosmas and Grayson

A few weeks ago, I asked, "Why are pharmaceutical companies puffing up Kosmas and Grayson?"

It did not compute that some nefarious "enemy" like "big pharmaceutical" would support re-election of politicians like Kosmas and Grayson if they were in the health care takeover scheme up in D.C.

Now it is much more transparent: the White House made a deal with nefarious "big pharmaceutical" through PhRMA, the source of the pro-Kosmas and pro-Grayson advertising.

Drug Dealers:
The White House buys
Big Pharma’s silence.

Wall Street Journal
REVIEW & OUTLOOK
AUGUST 7, 2009, 11:39 P.M. ET
Democrats are trying to explain opposition to ObamaCare as a sinister conspiracy controlled by the hidden hand of the health-care industry. Psychologists call this projection. Why bother with a new conspiracy when you’ve already clinched a secret deal with the President?

...This week it emerged that the pharmaceutical industry’s supposedly voluntary peace offering to cut drug costs by $80 billion to help finance ObamaCare was an explicit quid pro quo in exchange for White House protection.

After the industry trade group PhRMA announced the plan in the Rose Garden in June, liberals on Capitol Hill promptly declared that they were “not bound” by it, as Henry Waxman and Nancy Pelosi repeatedly put it.

It seems incredible that Billy Tauzin and PhRMA could fall for the backstabbing tricknology of the White House and Waxman.

Also, it makes a stark contrast with general claims that people opposing government health care takeover are organized mobs in the employ of some nefarious domestic industrial complex like "big pharmaceutical" or any other "big X" you care to name. That criticism applies to Grayson and Kosmas. They belong to "big pharmaceutical."

Friday, August 7, 2009

When will Suzanne Kosmas hold a town hall on health care?

When will Suzanne Kosmas
hold a town hall on health care?

Zack Stein
August 6, 2009 2:51 PM
WDBO Local News
wdbo.com
Democratic Representative Suzanne Kosmas was in town today for a small business summit. WDBO caught up with her to ask her if she plans to get any public input on health care reform.

Kosmas says she's already held forums where she's discussed health care, as far as any town hall style meetings...



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Kosmas hiding from her 24th District Constituents

Kosmas hiding from her 24th District Constituents
Suzanne Kosmas, freshman Congresswoman for Florida’s 24th District, has scheduled no town hall meetings or public interfaces with her constituents.
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Kosmas dodges face to face with constituents by using Tele-Town meeting

I just got off the phone with Rep. Kosmas' office in Port Orange. No conventional face to face town hall meetings for US.

Instead, her constituents get
  1. A Tele-Town Hall telephone conference
  2. no date specified yet
  3. The Kosmas staff will let people know when-where-how info by "robocalls" in the 48 hours prior to the conference call.
  4. They will also let people know when-where-how info by email in the 48 hours prior to the conference call.
  5. The staff member answering the call could not refer me to a spec sheet on how Tele-Town Hall works.
  6. Instead she referred me to Kosmas press-sec. Marc Goldberg, 202-225-2706 up in D.C.
  7. Why no conventional town hall face to face meeting? According to the staff member, Kosmas excused her own absence because holding six town-halls in one month was logistically impossible
  8. and that telecom is more equitable.
I do not view this excuse as credible. She makes plenty of campaign stops when she has to. But now that she has our vote, she is just not that into us: face to face is not logistically practical.

Sounds as dim as that boss in the film Office Space.

I decided to go ahead and do about 30 seconds of digging about Tele-Town Hall.

Apparently one needs to obtain the "Control Sheet" with codes etc.

How Tele-Town Hall WorksOn the day of your event, you will receive a Control Sheet with detailed instructions for conducting your Tele-Town Hall. The Control Sheet will include a unique ID and password for you to login to a simple web interface used to control the event through your web browser (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox). In addition, the Control Sheet will provide you with the contact information for your operator, the member of the Tele-Town Hall staff who is assigned to initiate the dialing process and monitor your event.

When the event begins, our system will dial out to the list of households you submit...

So if Kosmas does not want you on her list of people permitted to speak to her, you are S.O.L. That does not seem very open or inclusive.

A phone call to the Kosmas hotline, 877-956-7627, got me to Vinny, in Orlando. Very courteous lad, same basic information.