In an unprecedented show of community involvement, Constitutional rights to freely gather and redress our government with our grievances, and show our resentment for US Congressman Allen Boyd (D-FL), Gulf Coast Community College hosted over 1,000 people, not including children last night.
To help estimate the crowd, and to insure that the media would accurately report it, a copy of the healthcare bill - all 1,012 pages - were distributed, one copy to each adult. There were approximately 200 left without a page. I read mine. Whoever was responsible for this gibberish should be yanked from the human race. We don't talk like this. It was unintelligible, and so were all the other pages I glanced at. If you don't believe me, it is available in its entirety in another entry.
They came in cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and in one instance, a small car was pushed by another into a parking space from the road.
Rep. Allen Boyd, who previously promised the residents of Bay County a panel discussion in Amelia Hall to be attended by 500 ticket holders instead of a town hall meeting, canceled it late last week. His aide said he would not tolerate being yelled at. Another, Jerry Smithwick told a caller that "You do not tell Congressman Boyd what to do; he tells you what to do." And although he was in Panama City, Boyd refused to attend this traditional town hall, saying he knew the citizens of Bay County, and to the organizers, Derrell Day, President of Bay Patriots, and Burnie Thompson, local talk show host, his parting words were, "Have fun."
Boyd is wrong about Bay County and the panhandle residents who traveled to this event, who made and brought signs; who, because of the college reneging on the sound system and the prohibition of a bull horn, stood with a posterboard cone and spoke to the enthusiastic crowd by turn. One speaker was approximately 12 years old with a well prepared and thoughtful minute-long speech.
An effigy of Boyd was produced and it sat on a pickup truck bed which became the podium, and the grim reaper, who delivered a speech, wore a sandwich board.
T-shirt sellers set up a booth, and Bay Patriots grilled hotdogs for the crowd. Youngsters distributed bottled water to those standing on US98 with signs with instructions, "Ladies first".
Tea Partiers, Bay Patriots, motorcycle clubs, families and individuals with no organizational affiliation, independent citizens, politicians, physicians, nurses, a dentist, military members and veterans, and political hopefuls, were there. People in wheelchairs and people with walkers and some in braces were there. Some brought lawn chairs and sat before the makeshift podium.
They signed petitions against the healthcare bill, left messages on a roll of white paper, wrote questions in a log, all to be delivered to Boyd. They also signed up ballot eligibility forms for a candidate to run against him.
But where were the local elected politicians?
WHY WAS BOYD SUCH A COWARD TO TELL US THAT HE WILL HOLD A TOWN HALL MEETING IN OCTOBER OR NOVEMBER, WHEN THE OBAMACARE BILL OR ONE OF THE FIVE PROPOSED BILLS, WILL LIKELY ALREADY BE PASSED. And remember, Boyd is a proponent of the death tax.
DO WE REALLY WANT TO VOTE HIM IN AGAIN?
Last night we turned his rock over and exposed his tender cockroach belly.
Allen - It's time you cleaned up your desk because as we network throughout Florida to expose you, we'll have the power to fire you. You have made millions in farm subsidies on our backs; you are arrogant, rude and uncommunicative to your constituents. You are on a power trip and have forgotten who put you in office.
I will post a collection of photos later. You may see yourself.
