by Greg Dennis in All Ages, Events, Politics
Posted on August 29, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Last Modified on September 1, 2009 at 10:38 pm
| September 2, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
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Senator John Kerry will be holding a Town Hall at Somerville High School this Wednesday, September 2 from 7:30-9:00pm. The event information from his website has been copied below.
Join Senator John Kerry and discuss the issues at an open Town Hall in Somerville, MA. The seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis, so arrive early to make sure you get in!
With so much interest in the health care debate, we’re sure there will be many questions on that, but you are welcome to ask about any issue you would like. Our economy still needs to work better for all Americans, the Senate will take on the issue of energy reform and global climate change in the fall, and our foreign policy still faces many, many challenges. You can bring up those or any other issue at this open Town Hall.
The details:
Somerville Town Hall
September, 2 2009
7:30pm-9:00pm
Somerville High School Auditorium
81 Highland Ave
Somerville MA
Open to all!
Hope to see you there!
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According to the MyBO announcement from John Spears, MA State Director (Organizing for America) people can start arriving around 6:30pm.
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Better go early. Moveon.org claims to have 775 people signed up to attend.
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Why would mybo.com and moveon.org have to organize people to attend an event in the People’s Republic of Cambridge/Somerville? There are no conservative grassroots movements here to confront him. That’s why Kerry chose SHS – he knows there will be no one to shout him down.
He’s the senator for the whole state (and has been our only senator ALL year) — he shuld pick a town like Acton or Littleton to do the townhall. Then there would be some fun.
I might go just to ask him “John, why the long face?”. It would be worth the laugh.
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Well, Xumi, I was attending a book club at the Central Library, right next door to the high school, and there were thousands of people shouting and some waving signs about Hitler.
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Dennis, I saw the Hitler signs… pretty spot on when you think of what he is trying to do to our nation. Facism from the right or facism from the left — it’s still facism.
And I highly recommend people keep their kids out of school on September 8th when Obama does his CULT speech. That is a sick thing to subject young kids to.
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I think it would have been cowardly not to show up and at least try to ask questions or register your disapproval in a constructive way if you felt strongly.
Fortunately for me, I didn’t have much to contribute so I could stay home and watch on SCAT. I had that annoying problem of the sound cutting out for about 35 seconds in the middle of Mayor Curtatone’s speech, but since the mayor may be in need of a reminder on brevity being the soul of wit, I won’t complain. The mayor must have been tickled to host such a big event with 1,000 in the “overflow” space in the field house.
What got me about the whole thing was that people had the gall to insinuate that the government was trying to seize power by slogging through this deadly dull process in order to obtain the privilege of covering health care for those whose fortunes would otherwise be possibly very bleak without it. This seems to me like a work of herculean compassion, not a power grab.
Kerry seemed most impressive talking about how a healthy planet is such a key component to our health in general.
How come Capuano was a silent foot soldier there? I would have liked to hear him too.
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Neither of the two local lapdogs on stage that night looked very happy playing second fiddle to the man from Nantucket.
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