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John McCormack

Many cheers — and an occasional police escort — at Paul Ryan’s townhalls

“I will got to jail for you, man,” the Teamsters member said to the Ryan supporter.

“Officer, arrest this man,” the Teamsters member then said to a police officer. “He’s inciting a riot.”

The police officer told the Teamsters member not to tell him what to do, and the Teamsters official responded by leaning into the police officer chanting for pay cuts to cops who “don’t protect and serve.”

“Back off!” yelled the police officer.

The rowdy scene caused Ryan to leave with a police escort out of another exit.

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As the event was about to conclude a few dozen protesters lined up near an exit and tried to figure out what they would chant when Ryan emerged.

“Tax the rich!” said one woman. Others suggested that was no good, since it implied they only wanted to tax the rich.

“The rich should pay taxes also!” said another woman.

“That would be a little worrrddyyyy,” replied another. They finally settled on “tax the rich too!”

Geniuses!

sammypants on April 27, 2011 at 12:28 PM

The whole article gives a far different picture.

Ryan is someone to respect and support.

“Tax the rich too!”

So that implies they are ready to pay taxes themselves… because there are many who do not pay income tax at all. Are we ready to make this thing fair?

petunia on April 27, 2011 at 12:31 PM

The most rowdy crowd of the day was in the heavily unionized city of Kenosha. At one point, a heckler yelled out “liar!” when Ryan said our corporate tax rate is the highest in the world.

Well, the heckler is correct. The US is #2 by 0.25%, behind Japan:
http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/23470.html

I’m sure the heckler knew that and is well versed in international corporate tax rates…
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strictnein on April 27, 2011 at 12:33 PM

Maybe Mr Ryan should take a few tips from Allen West on just how to handle “hecklers”.

Doc Zero has a great piece, scroll down and watch the video. :)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=43179

“…These townhall hecklers will continue to be removed if they try and cause problems. They can try all they want- they will lose everytime.”

tencole on April 27, 2011 at 12:34 PM

Outside of the event in Kenosha there were 50 to 75 protesters, mostly union members and liberal activists, including community organizers from the organization Community for Change who had dressed as 1920s millionaires and held signs thanking Ryan.

Oh how original.

Sharke on April 27, 2011 at 12:36 PM

Wow, the stories of the union members at these things just keep getting worse. The media was begging for and inventing this type of behavior out of the Tea Party rallies. They don’t seem to notice any of this.

hawkdriver on April 27, 2011 at 12:36 PM

Why did McCormack leave out that the “Teamster guy” then just started pointing at people supporting Paul Ryan yelling, “Nazi!“?

You would have thought that might have been notable.

Abby Adams on April 27, 2011 at 12:42 PM

Can it really be that long before these union fanatics start strapping bombs to themselves?

Sharke on April 27, 2011 at 12:51 PM

Desperation. These people don’t know what they are doing. The backlash will be epic. This is not grandpa so worried about spending and Obamacare 2 yrs. ago that he and the rest of the card party were willing to go to their congress critters townhall and the local AARP meeting. These are inept, union thugs who want something for nothing. I hope they keep it up thru the summer. The 88% of Americans that are not union will not like or put up w/this crap!!

JAM on April 27, 2011 at 1:15 PM

Actually, strictnein, Japan cut its taxes within the last month, so we do now have the highest tax rate. No one paid attention to the cut because of the disaster.

andy85719 on April 27, 2011 at 1:19 PM

“…surprisingly few [questions] on Medicare. Perhaps that’s because his 17-minute PowerPoint presentation at the beginning of the event so thoroughly explained his Medicare reform for those under 55 and how it differs from President Obama’s plan to ration care through the Independent Payment Advisory Board.

Interesting contrast to our current CIC, who can’t, or won’t, explain anything coherently, but will just go before the cameras with his TelePrompTer crutches and whine “you’re not listening to meeeee.”

TeeDee on April 27, 2011 at 1:24 PM

tencole on April 27, 2011 at 12:34 PM

The best part was the woman that was being asked to leave that ended up getting arrested (presumably because she was not leaving when the cop told her to leave).

At first, she was very friendly with the guy that was filming it. She kept saying, “You’re getting this right?” Then, when he started asking her questions about her behavior and whether it was appropriate she got huffy and said, “I”m not going to talk to you any more.”

I guess she figured out the camera man wasn’t from a friendly news source.

JadeNYU on April 27, 2011 at 1:30 PM

So, this 55 plan of Ryan’s…I haven’t looked into it in detail, but when’s the cutoff for turning 55?

Bob's Kid on April 27, 2011 at 1:49 PM