Bart Stupak: People still yell at me in airports for passing ObamaCare

Have you encountered anything like that since, or any anger?

Oh yeah. I still get accosted. It’s been amazing to me how many people come up and say, ‘I should know you.’ And I’ll say, ‘Where are you from?’ They’ll say, ‘Oklahoma.’ And I’ll say, ‘Eh, you probably don’t know me then.’ And they’ll say, ‘Yes, I should.’ And someone else will say who I am. And someone will come out and just bitch me out. Others will come up and shake my hand and say ‘congratulations’ or something, ‘we needed it.’ Fortunately, I get more pats on the back than people cussing me out. It’s not unusual that when I go through an airport–and I go back and forth every week–that I will get at least one person cussing me out.

How do you handle that, when it happens?

It was a good bill. Proud to have voted for it. And then that just gets their anger going, but I’m not going to get in an argument with somebody in an airport–that’s ridiculous. I just, you know, say ‘have a good say,’ move on.