GOPer Who Vowed To Stand Up To Trump Flees Constituents At Community Event

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By ESME CRIBB Published JANUARY 15, 2017, 3:52 PM EDT

Colorado congressman Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO), who vowed to "stand up" to President-elect Donald Trump, left his own community event early on Saturday after a crowd of constituents showed up with questions.

Coffman was scheduled to meet with constituents at the Aurora Central Library on Saturday. A crowd of attendees, some with questions about Republican promises to repeal Obamacare, were left to wait in the lobby, according to a report by local station KUSA.

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According to KUSA's report, police officers used crime scene tape to create a perimeter while the crowd waited outside the community room.

The event was scheduled to run from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, but according to the report Coffman left "secretly" six minutes early, at 3:24 p.m.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mike-coffman-flees-constituents-community-event

[Phoenix61]

1. What a wuse!

Met with people 4 at a time?

[ProudLib72]

2. Glad I didn't waste my time going n/t

[cry baby]

3. This news report sounds like this may have been an Indivisible

Group that had scheduled this mtg with Coffman.

Bad press is something politicians hate. His cowardess is news now and he can't take that back. I love that!

[YOHABLO]

4. A Q&A lasting only 24 minutes? Really? Be proud Coloradans. Be Proud.

Another Chicken Sh ..t Republican.

[central scrutinizer]

5. Crime scene tape!?!?

Perfect, since this is premeditated murder. This will be commandment #9 that the orange plague has broken. The only one he hasn't broken is "honor thy father and mother ". By all accounts his father was a blatant racist and he is honoring that tradition

[grantcart]

14. I know, right? Crime against the people

[Yonnie3]

6. I'm hoping this is just the tip of the iceberg and all Republicans Representatives and Senators

receive similar press coverage.

Mid-terms draw nigh.

[Initech]

7. OK kids you've had your fun. Time to let the adults lead again!

[cstanleytech]

8. An ode to Mike Coffman folks!!

[vi5]

10. It's not clear from that article...

Were they pissed at him for supporting Trump? I'm assuming so, but when it starts it by identifying him as someone who vowed to stand up to him, that is what confused me.

Hopefully his constituents are pissed and hopefully there is more of this. A president with only 37% support to start out is the definition of unpopular. And as much as the people who didn't vote for either candidate are just as much to blame as those who voted for Trump, hopefully they hate him as well and his massive unpopularity will come back to bite all of these fools in their respective asses.

[renate]

16. yeah, I was wondering that too

If he was going to support the ACA, this seems like a shame. Although why would he run away from them, if he was on the same side?

Either way, it's good to see citizens getting involved.

[brush]

22. The article is not clear. It says the meeting was to go from 2:00 to 3:30...

and infers he snuck out secretly at 3:24. That seems to mean he met with voters for and hour and twenty-four minutes out of the schedule hour and thirty minutes.

What's the bid deal with that? It makes it seem like the ran out on the voters.

Also it's not clear whether the voters were there to support his stand against trump or they were there to protest him going against trump.

Too much sloppy journalism nowadays.

[left-of-center2012]

11. Using police to control voters?

Sen Sessions said this past week in his hearings to be Trump's Attorney General said he thinks Dept of Justice investigations of police departments for police violence and shootings of civilians is a waste of time and money.

[El Mimbreno]

12. Turning into another rubber stamp...

for destructionist GOP policy.

In a campaign ad released in August, Coffman distanced himself from Trump, saying that he doesn't "care for him much" and vowing to "stand up" to Trump if the then-candidate won the presidency.

In November, barely a week after the election, Coffman left the first full House Republican conference meeting saying that he was "excited" to work with Trump.

Confirms the "wuss" comment.

[Feeling the Bern]

18. He's a flag. . .the Republican wind blows towards assfaced shitgibbon. Time to CYA

[Snarkoleptic]

13. Here's more public service from this birther POS

[kairos12]

15. Don't recall the cops intervening when Tea Party Crazies went off at ACA meetings.

[mascarax]

19. Neither do I

Wonder who called the police? And why...

[calimary]

17. "Build that wall!" Around THEM.

Let them start feeling those walls closing in on them. Let them feel the sweat under their collar and abject FEAR at the thought of the upcoming midterms.

May they spend every morning of this next Congressional term - reaching for the Maalox bottle on their nightstand, immediately upon awakening. I wish them LOTS and LOTS of Tums for the tummy. And Alka Seltzer. And Pepto Bismol. And some handy Imodium, too, for good measure! (Both sides! Both sides! )

Let the discomfort begin.

[Blue Idaho]

20. Crime Scene Tape... how fitting. nt.

[calimary]

21. Something particularly gratifying to see in the article's title.

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"GOPer Who Vowed To Stand up To Trump Flees Constituents At Community Event"

The money word here is "Flees." You read the body of the story and the action described doesn't quite lead to "he flees the constituents." He did exit stage right before the event was over. Too bad it wasn't 36 minutes prematurely rather than a mere six minutes.

Nevertheless, using a vivid verb - that lends more meaning, suggests or infers more meaning, can really steer someone's thinking. Saying somebody left six minutes early, and saying somebody was fleeing constituents asking too many questions - they both may be true. But the "somebody was fleeing..." definitely paints a clearer pictures. Points you in a deliberate direction. Invites you to think of it in a more derogatory and unflattering way than merely to say "somebody left six minutes early." You can really manipulate perception that way.

I used to notice, for example, that if you said "President So-n-so says blah-blah-blah...", that has subtly but decisively different meaning than to say "President So-n-so claims blah-blah-blah..." The word choice of "claims" puts a whole different tinge on things. One way of stating something can be harmless and straightforward. Another way can be subliminal and manipulative - directing your thinking and the impressions made on you in a very calculated way. Depending on strategic word choices. You can cast doubt by saying "President So-n-so claims...", lending just a flicker of a negative light, whereas "President So-n-so says... " sounds a lot more declarative, more definitive, with far less doubt. You can manage perception that way. Perception management. It's KEY. And that's why our Dems HAVE TO-HAVE TO-HAVE TO get the messaging right, stronger, clearer, more clever (so it sticks in the mind), and more powerful.

Word choices are sooooooooooo key. I swear, sometimes it feels speaking in code. Frank Luntz understands this. kkkarl rove understands this. I think that bastard Steve Bannon and his pals understand this. Alex Jones understands this. Roger Ailes understands this. Brent Bozell understands this. Ralph Reed understands this. Drudge and limbaugh do, too, and Andrew Breitbart did. A whole bunch of those manipulative, calculating, sneaky-ass bastards on that side of the aisle understand this. Or they've learned it through the careful tactical tutelage of some CON think tank. Sure wish WE had that.

I am very encouraged that the Indivisible Guide is out. It's a VERY good beginning.

https://www.indivisibleguide.com/

Unfortunately, the bad guys have had the benefit of decades of head start, though. Ever since the Powell Memo back in the early 70s, a blueprint for conservatives and business and the US Chamber of Commerce - on how to thwart the anti-establishment "60s" mindset that let the heathens and "dirty hippies" in and allowed them to overrun the national psyche. Took 'em decades, but they overran the burgeoning left and took over - as we now see manifested across the country, in most of the power positions locally, statewide, regionally, and nationally.

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/

But knowledge is power. I'm gratified as all-get-out that President Obama and former Attorney General Holder have made this a top priority, once our president leaves office. And not a moment too soon. We HAVE TO be on our toes.

[Bengus81]

23. Police were called?? For WHAT??

Anyone now who would DARE ask questions about Herr Drumph needs to have the cops called--AT a town hall meeting that a US Congressman organized??

Gawd.....

[Rustyeye77]

24. What a sleazy slimey shit.

vote the pig out.