Otherwise he calls the cops on them.
"Them" being the voters of the 5th Congressional District of Virginia.
I quote extensively - and with my thanks - from The Schilling Show Blog:
Perriello’s office calls police to halt health care rally?What's Perriello afraid of?
More than sixty concerned United States citizens and residents of Virginia’s 5th Congressional District gathered in the parking lot immediately outside Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello’s Charlottesville office today. Organized by Bill Hay and the Jefferson Area Tea Party, the rally’s purpose was to allow attendees a forum in which to express their concerns over the prospect of nationalized/socialized medicine directly to Congressman Perriello (who chose not to attend), or in close proximity to his office.
While respectful in tone and content, citizen upon citizen passionately articulated apprehension over the potential negative impacts of socialized “health care” on their families, their businesses, their finances, and their own personal health.
Approximately forty minutes into the event, Charlottesville police were called to the parking lot area. Unconfirmed reports from the scene tie at least one of the complaining phone calls directly to Congressman Tom Perriello’s office staff. While the attending police officers (professionally and politely) compelled the gathered crowd to disperse, rally attendees grumbled at the prospect of their own congressman’s office terminating their first amendment, free speech protest. A protest that was peaceful and non-invasive in contrast to prior leftist assaults on the office of former 5th District Congressman, Virgil Goode.
That word will get out about the $2,000 that he took from a man he barely knew, maybe?
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Spreading info like this is where your blog is vital, Jerry, given that our local legacy media will downplay it. Shine that daylight and watch the cockroaches run. Keep up the good work!
That is a fine welcome. Maybe they will peacefully protest on the sidewalk in front of the office next time.
...Al...
Looks like this story is untrue. The Daily Progress ran a correction after interviewing the police and checking emergency communication record. Perriello's office did not contact the police. See here.
Perriello, along with a host of democrats, took a payoff for his vote. He can't deny that, Oh thats right, he's a democrat so he can deny and lie about anything/everything and the retards eat it up.
X-Firefighter
John -- Your comment is slightly misleading, though perhaps not intentionally. Here is the direct quote from the Daily Progress article:
U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello’s office did not contact police about protesters gathered outside his Charlottesville headquarters, according to emergency communi-cation center records.
Sounds very Clintonesque; it doesn't prove the story is "untrue." Was the call made by a Perriello person from outside outside the physical office? Can we find out? Inquiring minds want to know. Might be possible if only we had a non-partisan press.
And BTW, John, if you click on the “time” below a particular post, it will give you a URL you can share for just that post, alone, without making it necessary to scroll through 20 other posts on the blog to find it.
Cheers,
Salt Lick,
I apologize for the bad (or incomplete) link, I was in a rush. Not my intent to make you hunt for what i was referring to.
As to the meat of your point...while many people in Charlottesville want a non-partisan press, I doubt you'd find anyone who would call the Daily Progress a liberal newspaper. How many other papers in the Commonwealth endorsed Gilmore for Senate?
I guess I can't convince you. But I don't know what else to say you can believe the "unconfirmed reports from the scene" claimed by the local conservative talk radiohost or you can believe the local (conservative) paper's reporting with facts taken from the record. But anybody can read intentions into whatever they want.
I'll live you with this report from another respected (but admittedly Democratic) blogger about the event.
Thanks for the cordiality,
J
John -- I understand "being in a rush" as I don't have time to check the other links you give, or research the ideological leanings of the Charlottesville media you mention. But I'll put it on my "to do" list. Thanks.
Again, to my mind, the statement:
U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello’s office did not contact police... according to emergency communi-cation center records.
...is rather Clintonesque and does not tell us who did make that call, and it would be interesting to know.
As for the cordiality, I prefer it over the school yard snarkiness occasionally brought by some progressives, and I'll always try to extend it to reasonable people on the other side of the aisle. I hope you continue to visit Jerry's blog.
Cheers,
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