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riversedge

(69,731 posts)
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 11:57 AM Mar 2017

Hundreds chant 'Coward!' amid Paul Ryan's Rhode Island visit

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Source: AP






Hundreds chant 'Coward!' amid Paul Ryan's Rhode Island visit

Mar 2, 2017 Updated 11 hrs ago



PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Around 200 people chanted "Coward!" and booed as Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan attended an event in the heavily Democratic state.

A strong police presence kept the crowd across the street from a Providence office building, where Ryan was meeting Thursday with Year Up, a nonprofit career training organization.

Ryan was not seen entering the building, but a motorcade carrying him pulled into an alley, where there's a back entrance, away from protesters.

"We want him to hear loud and clear that his values are Wall Street values, they're not Rhode Island values," said Georgia Hollister Isman, the state director of Rhode Island Working Families. "We're also here in solidarity with our friends in Wisconsin who've been trying for months to get a town hall meeting with him."....................

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Republicans are afraid of protesters--calling in police unnecessarily!!
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Hundreds chant 'Coward!' amid Paul Ryan's Rhode Island visit (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2017 OP
This is awesome! Thank you to all those who came out to protest this coward. ffr Mar 2017 #1
And secondly, consider the mindset of why they're calling in the police. Have they done wrong? ffr Mar 2017 #2
Locking... DonViejo Mar 2017 #3

ffr

(22,649 posts)
1. This is awesome! Thank you to all those who came out to protest this coward.
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 12:06 PM
Mar 2017

ffr

(22,649 posts)
2. And secondly, consider the mindset of why they're calling in the police. Have they done wrong?
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 12:08 PM
Mar 2017

There's probably some truth to how guilty they are inside for not representing the people and not defending the U.S. Constitution.

Yeah, some people might find that troubling and act out on that.

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