Democrats Urge Democrats to Attend “Accidental” Congressman Joe Walsh’s Town Hall Meetings
An email from 8th District Democrats:
Eighth District Democrats & Independents
Joe Walsh Town Halls, starting Sunday
Will University of Chicago Public Policy Grad School Graduate Joe Walsh have even more fun with hostile questions at his Town Hall meetings than he did at parades llike this one in Johnsburg?
Our accidental Congressman, Joe Walsh, will be holding a series of “listening tour” town halls this month. I suggest we all go and give him an earful. That is, let him know that he doesn’t just represent the Tea Party by asking him some reasonable questions he will have a hard time answering in a way that isn’t alarming to anybody other than his base. The press is very likely to be there and will be quite interested in his answers.
Some questions you might want to ask (or any burning question you have):
- How will you bring jobs and businesses to the Eighth District?
- What is your plan for getting banks to lend to small businesses in the Eighth District?
- What do you think your win over Melissa Bean has given you a mandate to do in Congress?
- What do you mean by the revolution you talked about during the campaign and how do you plan to accomplish it in Washington?
- How will you vote when Congress is asked to raise the debt ceiling after you take office? (If they don’t vote to do it, the government will shut down, as it did in 1994.)
- Will you vote to repeal Obamacare and why? (Yes, call it that to get an honest answer.)
- Do you think we should add $700 billion to the deficit over the next ten years just to give tax cuts to people making more than $250,000 per year? Since you are a deficit hawk, will you vote against such tax cuts even if Republican leadership asks you to vote for them?
The town halls are scheduled for:
Lake Zurich
Sunday December 12
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Lake Zurich Police Department
200 Mohawk Trail (across from Ela Library)
Lake Zurich
McHenry
Monday December 13
7-8:30 p.m.
McHenry West High School
4724 W. Crystal Lake Road
McHenry
Schaumburg
Tuesday December 14
7-8:30 p.m.
Prairie Center for the Arts
201 Schaumburg Ct.
Schaumburg
Gurnee
Tuesday December 16
7-8:30 p.m.
Gurnee Village Hall
325 N. O’Plaine Rd.
Gurnee
Now is not the time to be silent!
Sincerely,
Eighth District Democrats & Independents (EDDI) Executive Board
Nancy Shepherdson, Chair
Wendy M. Warden, 1st Vice Chair
Anne F. Gueringer Johnson, 2nd Vice Chair
Gail Specht, Secretary
Kathryn Hausman, Treasurer
