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Tea Party group chides Wittman
Wittman faces questions, Tea Party members at community meetingDate published: 12/10/2009 BY FRANK DELANO Members of the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party and questions about health care greeted Rep. Robert J. Wittman (R-Montross) at a gathering Tuesday night in his hometown. "Where in the Constitution is government charged with protecting people's health?" asked Catherine T. Crabill, a maverick Republican who, despite being shunned by Wittman and state GOP leaders, came close last month to winning the seat Wittman once held in the House of Delegates. "My frustration is that we don't want any government-run health care. The Constitution is the only thing that will save us from this death spiral that the country is in," Crabill said. "Some elected officials are committing treason by not upholding their sacred oaths. Do you intend to uphold your oath of office and fight to make sure that your elected colleagues uphold theirs?" she asked Wittman, who promised he would. "The federal government is gang-raping the people," said Mark Carpenter of Acorn, a Westmoreland County community--not the controversial Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. "We're headed where the people will have no recourse but to take things into their own hands," said Carpenter. "Mark, that's a good point," said the unflappable Wittman. "A lot of people don't feel connected with their elected representatives. As elected officials, we need to re-establish that connection, like we're doing here tonight." Traffic jams delayed Wittman's arrival by 40 minutes at Tuesday night's gathering, attended by about 50 people at Washington & Lee High School. The session was sponsored by the Westmoreland County Civic Association, whose members are frequent critics of the Westmoreland County Board of Supervisors that was once chaired by Wittman. While waiting for Wittman to arrive, WCCA President Kennon Morris recalled how Wittman left all the dishes unwashed after he lived one summer in Morris' apartment at Virginia Tech in the 1980s.
Useless forum
(posted by
teaparty
, Dec. 12, 2009 1:30 pm)
FLS. You keep failing to post comments. How can this forum work if people can't trust you to be unbiased? You twist the truth to make Tea Party people look like fanatics, call them "[*#@!]", allow others to violate the user agreement; then block responses. You're obviously not a real newspaper and this is an untrustworthy forum.
Chiswald, don't lie.
(posted by
teaparty
, Dec. 12, 2009 9:16 am)
You couldn't have been there and honestly come away with that impression. NO ONE was shouted down, not even the Socialist who called WIttman "Comrade".
This same angry mob of crude simpletons made it impossible...
(posted by
Chiswald
, Dec. 11, 2009 11:52 am)
..for the citizens in the First Congressional District to engage in a civil meeting with Rep. Wittman at Dodd Auditorium. Instead of being respectful of others who tried to speak to their congressman, these I.Q. challenged bozo's screamed and shouted down anyone who wasn't in lock step with their anarchistic agenda. These geniuses sure know how to "spew from the mouth." Why does Wittman distance himself from Crabill?. Hint: She leads this nutcase herd by their nose rings with slogans of armed revolt!
Yes
(posted by
ColBatGuano
, Dec. 11, 2009 11:14 am)
NO is a plan....
same as "CHANGE"
Do the TEA Party people offer any solutions?
(posted by
kspecial
, Dec. 11, 2009 10:39 am)
Really, I want some constructive ideas from them besides
the same old, lame old "cut taxes" and "the Government is
evil". I've attended rallies, seen them get plenty of news
coverage, but they apparently are bereft of any useful
plans. (I don't know, though. Is "NO" a plan?) All I seem to
be getting from them is a lot of complaining, mud-slinging
rhetoric, a convoluted misinterpretation of the Constitution
and cherry-picked skewed opinions attributed to the
founding fathers. That ain't gonna "git-r-done."
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