At a recent town hall event in Illinois held by Rep. Dan Lipinski, several members of the Chicago Tea Party Patriots attended in order to publicly heckle the Democratic representative.
They booed his comments, chanted “USA!” over his statements, and appeared to care very little for actually listening to what the member of Congress had to say about health care reform.
When a supporter of health reform stood up to talk about her daughter’s personal story of a system gone wrong, .
Midge Hough, whose daughter and unborn granddaughter died partly due to lacking health insurance, spoke candidly about the need for a public option and other reforms necessary to help this country. She spoke of her daughter’s tragic ordeal, of having to leave one hospital to enter
another, of having to lie to that second hospital about having insurance simply so they could be seen by a doctor.
If there was any sympathy for Hough and her family in that room, it was hard to spot. Some reports and eyewitness accounts speak of eye-rolling, of continued heckling, and >>>
