LA-05: Rep. Alexander (R) Can't Control His Town Hall by: ryan Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 23:19:51 PM CDT The Advocate quoted GOP Congressman Rodney Alexander about the town halls he's been holding in his district over health care reform: "We haven't had anybody who's been ugly with us," said U.S. Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-Quitman. "Most people are concerned but nobody has been rude." Well, I guess the Congressman and I have differing definitions of rude, because one young woman, Caina Munson, was shouted down by some obnoxious "patriotic authentic American" while the Congressman just stood there and let the man verbally abuse one of his constituents (Ms. Munson starts speaking around 2:45): (hat tip to CenLamar) Perhaps the Congressman would like to offer us his definition of rude? ryan :: LA-05: Rep. Alexander (R) Can't Control His Town Hall Tags: louisiana, 2009, LA-05, Rodney Alexander, Health Care Reform, Town Hall, Screamers, (All Tags) Print Friendly View Send As Email LA-05: Rep. Alexander (R) Can't Control His Town Hall | 3 comments by: you @ soon To post this comment click here: Otherwise click cancel. You must enter a subject for your comment The reform plan.. (0.00 / 0) The reform plan, aimed at providing health care coverage for the nearly 50 million Americans that have none, also faces resistance among some conservative Democrats.People wonder who is behind the town hall riots when anyone discusses health care reform, or Obamacare - the answer is Conservatives for Patients' Rights. Conservatives for Patients Rights, or the CPR, is headed by one Rick Scott who isn't a doctor but used to be the CEO of a hospital, and under his watch, his medical administration defrauded Medicare of $1.7 billion through a practice called upcoding, wherein a Medicare patient gets treated, but Medicare is billed for additional tests that never took place.  (That's fraud.) Realistically, Conservatives for Patients Rights  and Mr. Scott will never need short term loans, and the only reason why they oppose the bill is that they want the money from the program for themselves.   by: AlyanaP @ Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 07:58:50 AM UTC by: you @ soon To post this comment click here: Otherwise click cancel. You must enter a subject for your comment Didn't CNN expose Rick Scott on one of their programs? (0.00 / 0) It was on Media Matters or something ... let me see if I can find it.   "I was against NAFTA and CAFTA, and I'll be against SHAFTA." by: ryan @ Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 13:00:48 PM UTC [ Parent ] by: you @ soon To post this comment click here: Otherwise click cancel. You must enter a subject for your comment Here's Rick Scott being exposed by Rick Sanchez on CNN (0.00 / 0) "I was against NAFTA and CAFTA, and I'll be against SHAFTA." by: ryan @ Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 17:06:01 PM UTC [ Parent ] by: you @ soon To post this comment click here: Otherwise click cancel. You must enter a subject for your comment LA-05: Rep. Alexander (R) Can't Control His Town Hall | 3 comments

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