Comments on: Liveblogging Castle’s Townhall Meeting

By: Mike Castle’s Town Hall | Delmarva Dealings

Mike Castle’s Town Hall | Delmarva Dealings — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:01:51 +0000

[...] Mike Castle (R-DE) held a town hall meeting on health care. Delaware Liberal was there to LiveBlog the event. They did a pretty good [...]

By: June

June — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:40:18 +0000

The crowd was never 50/50. There were way more of the right-wingers. You could tell by the applause and cheers. Mike Protack said 65-35. I was going to say 70-30.

By: Thoughts On Mike Castle’s Townhall : Delaware Liberal

Thoughts On Mike Castle’s Townhall : Delaware Liberal — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:01:29 +0000

[...] Dem and I attended Mike Castle’s townhall yesterday. You can read this thread for a play-by-play of what [...]

By: Delaware Republican

Delaware Republican — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:27:55 +0000

Now now. Two of the most vocal opponents were women including the woman from Newark, who has her picture in the paper.

The signs were excluded but again they made it into the article by way of a photo.

The balance of who was called and not was not based on gender. At the point when the call was made to call on a woman Castle had called on four men in a row.

People of color were no more excluded than the 95% of us who had our hands up but did not get called on. I assume people of color had the same concerns we all did, for or against.

I would tally up the room as roughly 65% against and 35% in favor of Obama/Dem Plan.

Mike Protack

By: Nancy Willing

Nancy Willing — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:59:07 +0000

No persons of color were given a chance to ask a question. The WNJ article just says Mike didn’t call on the obvious red-shirted union people. The reporter knowingly misrepresented what really happened or else his editor cut it out of the article because a bunch of us told him that we were angry that photos were being taken of the AA’s in the lobby yet they never got a chance to say anything for the record. I said that they shouldn’t use those photos unless they mentioned the whole story in the article –Castle denied them a voice at all. Guess not.

Castle had to be embarrassed into calling on females when people started shouting ‘call on a woman’ half way through the Q&A and when he finally did, they were all his buddies up in the front of the hall who had gotten there well ahead of time.

What a waste of time. Screw you Mike Castle.

By: Delaware Republican

Delaware Republican — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:46:28 +0000

First, Thanks for stopping by and saying “hello” and blogging the event.

Your depiction is pretty accurate as for the intro and sequence.

I was disappointed because a lot of the questions were mini sermons and not appropriate for the event. The reservations by the ‘wingnuts’ you speak were heartfelt but more specific questions would have drawn out more information.

I raised my hand , did not get called on. My question was pretty simple. “Would you support Wyden/Bennett as an alternative? It encompasses pooling, regional exchanges, portability and 99% coverage with private insurance.

As a follow up there will be a Town Hall on health care co sponsored by the Alliance for Health Care Reform and Founders Values at the Talleyville Fire Hall the second week of September.

Delaware Liberal is invited to co sponsor.

Mike Protack

By: Miscreant

Miscreant — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:32:14 +0000

“We have LIBERAL in our name and everything. LOL.”

What? DELAWARE PROGRESSIVE was taken?

By: Miscreant

Miscreant — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:30:18 +0000

“Miscreant, you know you don’t visit for the objectivity.”

True. I visit for the entertainment.

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:08:22 +0000

OK, I wrote up a post of my impressions scheduled to go up in the morning. I hope Delaware Dem will also write his own impressions.

By: Delaware Dem

Delaware Dem — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:03:07 +0000

Yeah, Miscreant, we are biased. We have LIBERAL in our name and everything. LOL.

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:31:34 +0000

Miscreat, you know you don’t visit for the objectivity.

By: delacrat

delacrat — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:31:12 +0000

Unstable,

First…. Thanks for doing this.

I surmise that Castle called on mostly wingies because he recognized them from previous occasions. The wingies may not be numerous, but they do turn out.

By: Miscreant

Miscreant — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:22:07 +0000

“Perhaps someone could turn this into something understandable.”

Understandable? It was easy to understand. I’d settle for a little objectivity.

BTW, thank you for live blogging the meeting.

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:59:34 +0000

Stream of consciousness blogging is the very art of live-blogging, UI. Thanks so much for doing this!

Lots of wingnuts and lots of wingnut talking points, that’s for sure…

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:39:39 +0000

I had my hand up but I didn’t get to ask a question. He managed to pick up mostly the wingnuts.