{"id":393211,"date":"2010-03-05T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78503"},"modified":"2010-03-05T12:17:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:17:09","slug":"freedomworks-preps-media-for-anti-hcr-town-hall-furor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/393211","title":{"rendered":"FreedomWorks Preps Media for Anti-HCR Town Hall Furor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Judson Berger of Fox News filed a story<\/a> that framed the Democratic push for final passage of a health care bill as a “race” to beat a wave of voter anger at town halls.<\/p>\n

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“We’re about to ratchet it up,” said Debbie Dooley, a Tea Party Patriots organizer and FreedomWorks volunteer outside Atlanta. “You’re about to see the passion that we saw during the August recess.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Conservative activists across the country are planning to sponsor town hall meetings, rallies, debates and visits to district offices to voice their objections to the health care reform bill, starting as early as next week. The big push will come during the two-week congressional recess that starts March 29.<\/p>\n

“We’re gonna hit ‘em when we know they’re back in (the) district, and we’re gonna hit ‘em hard,” said Tom Gaitens, a Tampa Tea Party organizer who coordinates with FreedomWorks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How did Fox News stumble across this scoop? The Facebook feed of FreedomWorks’ Brendan Steinhauser provides a clue:<\/p>\n

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Hey, I do the same thing. FreedomWorks (Steinhauser in particular) is insanely good at organizing, and its alliance with the Tea Parties<\/a>, for all the hackles it gives liberals, isn’t a huge secret. But Fox may be overstating how much Democrats really worry about this. The town halls of August, after all, led to … both houses of Congress passing health care bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Judson Berger of Fox News filed a story that framed the Democratic push for final passage of a health care bill as a “race” to beat a wave of voter anger at town halls. “We’re about to ratchet it up,” said Debbie Dooley, a Tea Party Patriots organizer and FreedomWorks volunteer outside Atlanta. “You’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}