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'Buyer's Remorse' in Florida as Angry Crowd Erupts at Ryan Republican Who Defeated Alan Grayson

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Written by RS Janes   
Wednesday, 27 April 2011 10:09



Without getting into the theory that Dem firebrand Rep. Alan Grayson was defeated in 2010 via the use of those notorious no-paper-trail computerized voting machines because he spoke too much truth to power, the victorious Republican, gloriously misnamed Daniel Webster, somehow slid into office by a landslide. Since then this GOP empty suit has voted reliably retrograde Republican, including for Ryan's soak-the-poor Medicare-killing budget plan.

Here, Think Progress, by way of AlterNet, delineates the extent to which the voters in Webster's district are waking up to the vacuous corporately-owned monster representing them. Go to the link at the bottom for videos.

Bedlam Erupts At Town Hall In Orlando As GOP Rep. Defends Tax Breaks For Rich and Ending Medicare

ThinkProgress filed this report from a town hall in Orlando, FL.

During a town hall in Orlando earlier today, Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) faced a barrage of questions from outraged constituents about the Republican budget. The Orlando Sentinel accurately described the scene as “bedlam.”

For nearly an hour, Webster was peppered with one question after another about his support for ending Medicare, his desire to see tax breaks for the wealthy extended, and his vote to repeal health care reform, including its protections for people with preexisting conditions. For his part, Webster didn’t just avoid the questions by resorting to talking points, as most politicians commonly do. On numerous occasions, Webster simply declined to give an answer to contentious questions altogether, moving on to take a new question instead.

Questions critical of the Ryan budget were met by applause from nearly the entire audience. Watch highlights from the town hall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K4JY9-rdhYc

I don't know -- do they have a recall apparatus in Florida similar to that in Wisconsin? If so, Webster would seem to be an easy target, right after Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

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