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… please allow me to tell you that I am a political independent with conservative leanings. Over the years I have voted for the candidate that I thought was best qualified and never got involved in organized politics…. Now we find ourselves being branded “troublemakers” and a “mob” for expressing views that do not fit the Democratic mainstream agenda. I find it interesting that only grass roots planted in liberal ground are acceptable these days!

Now I hear that you were “harassed” by your constituents at a recent meeting in Green Bay. You called the protests “very well organized” and said “I couldn’t have organized it better” on Wisconsin Public Radio… I believe you misread that crowded meeting. There are a huge number of ordinary people like me who are simply tired of the things that are going on in Washington. To portray them as a mob or organized harassment simply is not fair or true.

More likely, the folks you met have lost half their savings, lost a job or are scared to death that we are going down a path to socialism. Personally, I built the few bucks I have from scratch, employed over 100 people for years and donated time and money to many community activities. There are hundreds…no thousands of people like me in your district who made their own way….and are now sick and tired of good people like you who go to Washington and get “whipped into shape” by the Democratic leaders.

I spent an hour or so researching the bill online, downloaded a copy, read several pages of it, and asked my dad to print up a list of facts about the bill that concerned me…

After about an hour [at the meeting], I became increasingly more frustrated. A student of economics, I felt that the basic principles that govern the free market were being ignored, so I raised my hand, shaking from an innate fear of public speaking. The congressman passed me the mic, I introduced myself as “just a mom from down the street” “with no political affiliation” (words that would later haunt me) and I delivered an impassioned lecture to the congressman and the audience on basic economics and why more government regulations will cause healthcare prices to increase, not decrease.

1. knew what she believed
2. was proactive in communicating her beliefs
3. “had no real question” and
4. BECAUSE SHE WAS A REPUBLICAN

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