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struggle4progress

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Fri Feb 10, 2017, 12:24 PM Feb 2017

Chaffetz's Support Of Trump Brings Boos And Jeers At Utah Town Hall

February 10, 20173:07 AM ET
JULIA RITCHEY

U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, faced boos and jeers from Utahns in his home district during a rowdy town hall Thursday night in the suburbs outside Salt Lake City.

More than 1,000 people packed into the auditorium of Brighton High School for the noisy forum, with hundreds more stuck outside.

Amid near-constant shouts and interruptions, Chaffetz was asked about everything from his controversial public lands bills to efforts to defund Planned Parenthood to President Trump's executive order temporarily prohibiting travelers of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States ...


http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/10/514446449/chaffetzs-support-of-trump-brings-boos-and-jeers-at-utah-town-hall

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Chaffetz's Support Of Trump Brings Boos And Jeers At Utah Town Hall (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2017 OP
What we need to watch is will his voters figure out who he is? Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #1

Eliot Rosewater

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1. What we need to watch is will his voters figure out who he is?
Fri Feb 10, 2017, 12:29 PM
Feb 2017

Will Paul Ryan voters; i.e. mechanics at the local auto shop, greeters at the local Walmart, assistant managers at Target, will they figure out that if Ryan gets his way, they will not have Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, Disability, Unemployment Insurance, Workers' Compensation, Safe Work Places, overtime pay, drinkable water, breathable air, drive-able roads, cross-able bridges?

Today, they dont believe he will take all that away even though he is on record saying he will. His party is on record, this is not confusing.



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