Disrupting the Disrupters 101: Tea Baggers Fail at Health Care meeting

By GottaLaff

Disrupting the Disrupters 101 is brought to you by DANI:

The Democratic Alliance of Northwest Indiana (DANI ) hosted a meeting with Rep. Pete Visclosky (D, IN-01), on Monday, Aug. 3, 6:30 PM. We invited the public and their written questions. It seems good to share with the Daily Kos readership some lessons we learned.

Bottom line:
• We had an orderly and productive meeting.
• No one stood up, shouted out and sat down.
• At no point was our Congressman or audience rattled.
• DANI accomplished its objective. We provided the public an opportunity to question our Congressman about Health Care and Clean Energy.
• Tea Baggers came out in force, but they failed to disrupt the meeting.
• Local reporters attended.

Rather than mangle this primer, I'll simply send you there. It's terrific, and it worked.

This is one sentence I loved, so I'll share it here:

And then in opening remarks, I blew the Tea Baggers' cover. Roughly, it went like this:

Now go read, and learn.