Below is an email sent out by Barack Obama’s former campaign-now-turned-goon-squad group, Organizing for America. (more…)

From 25 August 2009 9:00PM to 11:05PM.

I think the audio speaks for itself. (more…)

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The facts are published on his Official House Site. I have a PDF of it here.

Edwards doesn’t list his constituents’ concerns as something that will guide his vote: (more…)

First, a note to my most frequent visitors, the staff at Chet Edwards’ Office: Hi, Leila and Phil! I won’t be in-district this weekend. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t other people around here who won’t keep you accountable. You might think about a back door when Chet goes to the George Bush Library to his private meeting with the Boy Scouts. Just a suggestion. I mean, I have notified folks he’ll be there at 10AM Saturday. And I’ll be giving the event its own post later today.

Now to the numbers…

Chet Edwards is having his telephone town hall meeting tonight. If you only have a cell phone, like yours truly, you won’t be invited. Seems the calls are only going to land lines, and they called yesterday to tell you they will be calling today to allow you to participate. This is evidently not a call-in…they are calling out. But they have my cell phone number…I gave it to them on my first visit…but they didn’t call me.

So let’s do a pre-game… (more…)

Here’s an update of Chet Edwards’ schedule as we know it – remember his office doesn’t know his schedule, wo we have to figure it out on the fly and by doing our own research.

August 22, 2009 10AM – Saturday: He will be attending and participating as the primary presenter the Merit badge session for Boy Scouts seeking to earn their Citizenship In The Nation Merit Badge. This event takes place at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. When I went to a similar event the Former President Bush ’41 participated in, it was in the annex across the way from the actual library…right near the statue of the horses jumping over the wall. Mre information can be found here: http://bit.ly/FnFLx

August 22, 2009 – Noon Saturday: Edwards will be having a “radio town hall” meeting on WTAW 1620 AM out of College Station, Texas. You can listen live here: http://bit.ly/Z8VSA You can also submit questions to questions@wtaw.com but, since Scott Delucia is Edwards’ myrmidon and only throws softball questions, people are re-posting the questions they are sending there to www.mybcs.com.

That’s it from the frontlines right now..he’s promised town hall meetings in three towns in the district, but those haven’t been announced when and where yet.

This is what I posted as my first contribution as a Blogger on “The People’s Mob” Blog run by American Liberty Alliance.

Back when television was decent, there was a lighthearted show called Hogan’s Heroes, all about life in a German POW Camp. And punishment for

any of the Germans who messed up guarding the camp was to be sent to the Russian Front. The mere mention of such an exile brought the highest ranking officers to comical shudders of fear.

Much like the Keystone antics of Colonel Klink and Sergeant Schulz exposed the sheer ridiculousness of Nazism (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or National Socialist German Workers’ Party), I feel as though the inmates are running the asylum, and we’re looking at the advancing Socialist Plague.

I reside in Texas House District 17, one of the most conservative districts in the nation…and am supposed to be represented by Democrat Chet Edwards, who has a more Liberal voting record than Maxine Waters. Yep…that Maxine Waters. (more…)

Here it is…

PRESS RELEASE

“Congressman Edwards welcomes open, honest public debate on the important issue of health care reform.

“Unfortunately, when one of the protest leaders in Bryan was asked last week if his group would respect Congressman Edwards’ request to honor the rights of all citizens to be heard by agreeing not to disrupt a town hall, he said, “If you’re invoking rage like Arlen Specter did the other day, he (Chet Edwards) deserves to be shouted down.”

“Sadly, statements like that make it clear that the real agenda is to disrupt, not encourage, a public discussion on health care.

“In addition to numerous meetings with health care providers, business leaders and everyday citizens, Congressman Edwards intends to have a telephone town hall meeting later this month where citizens from all 12 counties can participate in a dialogue on health care.

“Congressman Edwards will carefully study any health care reform legislation before casting his vote, but he will oppose any Canadian style, single-payer plan that socializes our health care system or prevents people from keeping the quality, private health care plan of their choice.”

Note that he is referring to a prior engagement with constituents, not the 250 peaceful protestors who asked for a meeting and signed a pledge not to disrupt the meeting.

No date was given on the Press Release as presented on the local media’s web site. I have copied it here since documents and text tend to go missing from the web these days. It was originally at URL: http://www.kbtx.com/healthcarereform/headlines/52917192.html

This release was not available on Edwards’ Official House of Representatives Site.

Let’s look at this release seritim:

The First Paragraph – No, Congressman Edwards does not “welcomes open, honest public debate on the important issue of health care reform.” He has yet to speak publicly to any constituents about it who want to speak to him about it.

Second Paragraph – Who was that person, Congressman? We record our encounters with you to make sure you don’t lie. And if you DO lie to us the way Specter lies to his constituents, we won’t let you get away with it. We won’t shout you down, but we’ll expose you for the liar you are.

ThirdParagraph: The real agenda was in front of your office TODAY, and you are referring to something a week old? You will let ONE PERSON define your constituents and not the 250 who showed up today to peacefully ask for some of your time?

Fourth Paragraph: The Founding Fathers did not have telephones, Chet. They WANTED you to meet us face-to-face.

Fifth Paragraph: The Plan before the House is not a single payer plan, but it will lead to one – which is why you can vote for this plan and say you didn’t vote for single-payer. The Plan before the House also says you can keep what you have, BUT ONCE YOU SWITCH, LEAVE, OR WANT TO GET INSURANCE IT HAS TO BE GOVERNMENT RUN INSURANCE.

I can say nothing else except that Chet Edwards lies.

And Chet acts like a Coward.

UPDATE: 2009-08-10 8:10PM -- New Video Added that shares the audio of our request for a face to face town hall meeting:

Well, we asked again…

Mug Shots of The Mob

Today at Noon 250 people showed up at Congressman Chet Edwards’ office in Bryan, Texas, to peacefully ask for a town hall meeting. His field representative, Phil Shackeford, said only the phone meeting was still scheduyled.

And that was for, as Phil put it, “…Doctors, nurse, those who have a stake in healthcare…”

Last I checked, every citizen in District 17 was human and occasionally got sick. That would make them “stakeholders”.

The audio and the video tells the take.  If you need to fast forward the audio to the time when we get to talk to Phil, it’s at about 50 minutes in. The line was long, as you will see in the video. (more…)

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I was visiting with my radical right wing friends at breakfast this morning when the point was made regarding supply and demand in the current Healthcare scandal proposal:

If we want to avoid longer lines at emergency rooms, doctors offices, and surgical wait time once we inject 47 Million people into the system with Government/Universal/Single payer healthcare, how many doctors would we need to increase our medical rolls by in order to meet that demand?

So I did some research. (more…)

If the audio begins to play, you can scroll down to pause it in the player.

I received an email alert this morning, that I reposted to Twitter (W/ an auto-repost every ten minutes), Facebook, and this Blog. It was about a visit by Chet Edwards, Texas District 17 representative to Congress, to a local event that would be a place where people could gather and ask for a Town Hall Meeting.

Edwards does not have any meetings with constituents as a whole scheduled.

I recorded audio for an entire hour, from just before arriving to just before leaving.

I recorded video of the crowd as well as the report one representative of the local Republican Party gave after following Chet inside. (more…)

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