Comments on: Is this astroturf or grassroots?

By: Elizabeth Christian

Elizabeth Christian — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:07:29 +0000

The same night a large portion of the north end of his district but would be gathering together for a GOP BBQ fundraiser. We had between 300 and 400 people show up. A lot of us would have went to Marshall’s town hall if it had not been planned on the night of our event which had been planned and publicized for months.

Anyways, as far as moveon.org – I got to meet the astroturf at Hank Johnson’s townhall meeting. It was held at the college I graduated from and a friend from his district asked me to go with her so I did. Definitely astroturf and definitely strange!!!

Oh – one last thing on Marshall – his staff told me prior to the break about an event he was having at a local hospital in my county. I am a Registered Nurse and requested to attend but was denied because I was NOT a hospital administrator or doctor – can you say elitist and controlled environment???

By: Michael Dugas

Michael Dugas — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:17:19 +0000

We need some little old ladies with knitting needles to simultaneously pop all seven balloons with a back up team of old geezers who’ve got their “chew” on to take out any back up balloons that might pop up. Of course thumb tacks glued to the edges of our signs could repeatedly “accidentally” bump into those balloons adding a little pop to the whole affair.

By: Erick Brockway

Erick Brockway — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:55:43 +0000

Time for a bake sale.

By: clement

clement — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:46:15 +0000

to being a MoveOn member eh?

That’s ok I’m one of those NRA members that is also a Brady campaign member. Sometimes I wonder what % of the membership of these leftist groups are just people trying to keep an eye on what they are doing.

By: tankertodd

tankertodd — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:49:46 +0000

What happens when MoveOn folks don’t see 7 balloons, but only 6? Will they go home? Will George Soros still pay them?

By: Toneman

Toneman — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:45:16 +0000

My folks live in this district (formerly Jack Kingston’s…sigh), and have been trying for some time to find out whether Jim Marshall would be holding town-halls. Their calls to the DC office went unanswered and his website makes no reference to any town-hall events. Funny that they have to find it out from me in Washington through RS and indirectly Moveon.org, but they’ll definitely be there to help outnumber the left-wing radicals.

By: Kowalski

Kowalski — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:36:40 +0000

By: Bobcat51

Bobcat51 — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:31:05 +0000

Just confuse the clowns !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJo654B-O2U&feature=related

By: Tbone

Tbone — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:16:34 +0000

By: mitrebox

mitrebox — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:05:56 +0000

I don't know what Ballons are but it might be fun if everyone brought 7 Red(State) Balloons.

By: skorrent1

skorrent1 — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:57:30 +0000

If they offer “bagels, donuts, juice and coffee” and pass out signs when you get off the chartered buses. ;<)

By: janis

janis — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:28:27 +0000

I’ve been told they smell of rank tofu, stale weed, and cheap wine. Many may be wearing pink. And some will be muttering the word,”Racist” over and over.

By: Erick Erickson

Erick Erickson — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:26:41 +0000

You’ll know me when you see me.

I’ll be the guy in the jeans and white polo shirt carrying the protest sign!

By: Kowalski

Kowalski — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:23:42 +0000

Hi Erick Erickson, I’m Rick D. I know that you’re an effective and passionate organizer for our cause, and that’s why I want to invite you to come to a meeting and tell all your friends to go there as well. We’re going to have a lot of people walking around in dark sunglasses, that’s how you’ll know us right from the get-go.

I’ll be there with my girlfriend, Carolyn B., so you’ll know us right away! We’ll be wearing the Ray-Bans with the little red marks on the frames.

By: Kowalski

Kowalski — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:19:21 +0000

Really the most important thing in this email comes at the very end, where the “author” deliberately obfuscates their identity.

If MoveOn is interested in getting people out to town hall meetings, one of the things they could at least be honorable about is using real names in the messages they send to people. Otherwise what separates this email from a spam campaign?

More importantly, if MoveOn really wants people to come out and appear at events, in person, with their real bodies in real space in real time, it’s awfully disingenuous to not even use one’s last name in the invitation.

“Kimberlyn C.” is a nonperson trying to ask real people to visit a real event. Who knows if “she” will be there? Who knows if any of them will?