Please plan on arriving early to secure good seating!

? Get as many as possible to attend BUT LET's BE SURE WE ARE ABSOLUTELY PEACEFUL ....EVEN WHEN THE ORGANIZERS GET IN OUR FACE...... STAY CALM ?

Here is a link on the Barak Obama site to this event.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/healthcareorg...

Looking forward to this...bringing new members Mike and Lisa Logsden, too, so there will be 4 of us. Will bring list of suggested questions for our Senators and Reps by the American Family Association "just in case" we actually get called on for questions.

Please write a well thought out question on an index card as nerves may prevail and we won't have the luxury of a teleprompter! I suggest bringing signs but leave them in the car in case we need them.

I just went down to my Congress womens office Kathy Castor (D) 11th distrect Florida 813-871-2817 and even thou she is hiding and refuses to do a face to face town hall meeting I told her receptionist that I was not happy with the DNC attacking American citizens for giving there opinion. I also called the DNC office and let them have it to. 202-863-8000. I think the DNC just woke up the sleeping giant with this attack

Are there any other groups in the Tampa Bay area signing up for this event or only from this group?

Please see our files section for and overview of Healthcare Bill HR 3200 and for some talking points and message points.

There are four or five other groups in the area that will have members attending this Townhall as well as many concerned citizens. Needless to say the staged SEIU, Progressive Democrats and Healthcare Now members will be there, but the Democrats will spin it to say that their concerned constituents are only staged right wing extremist. They will never admit that 73% of their very constituents are concerned and even angry about their lack of representation for the people. Blind to the facts.

I think the loud passion displayed in these meetings is what gets them press. Obviously we shouldn't start a riot, but at the same time you don't want to sit there quietly the whole time. It's only natural to cheer someone on if they said something you like and boo them if you disagree. The real tea party was not "calm." These are liberals we are dealing with here. They respond to emotions more than they do reasoned logic. When they see anger, they worry about keeping their job next year.

Looks like on the Obama site they are up to 88 people going

This Town Hall was just announced on WFLA. They said Castor is supposed to be there along with Reed.

Something I picked up on another 912 site:
Prefrace your question with:
"I AM NOT ASKING THIS BECAUSE SOMEONE HAS ORGANIZED ME TO DO SO OR BECAUSE OF MY POLITICAL PARTY, I AM ASKING ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND MY FAMILY OUT OF CONCERN FOR OUR WELFARE".

Great freedom loving patriots celebrating liberty by shouting down the lies of the big government crowd and exposing the truth.

They stacked the audience in advance with their folks. By the time they allowed the general public in, more than 1/3 of seats were taken by them.

Freedom loving patriots celebrated liberty by knocking down a disabled woman and starting a fist fight with someone. I feel sorry for the people who went there to learn, whether it was to support or criticize. Too bad they weren't allowed to speak.

Well it was nice meeting you This was my first meetup. But as far as the townhall meeting. OMG Was it an eye opener not only for me but my son. He's still fuming *S* Being placed at the end of the line after being before the Acorn people and Obama supporters was a real eye opener.

Debbie And I left once Castor said she was turning this meeting over to the healthcare panel of experts and all we saw were the experts from Acorn That's when we left and quite a few others.

I have a lot of video of the events as they took place in the hallway of the event. WOW! Totally unreal. Violence sort of broke out, and talk about disrespect. Thugs totally roughed up one man, which again....I have video of the whole incident.

What a Joke!! Where was all the News coverage? Why else would they hold it at such a small venue? If they had held it somewhere larger we Patriots would have outnumbered them by 98%. They should have been selling the Universal Healthcare to us but instead they preached to the lemmings who have already drank the Kool Aid. VOTE HER OUT!! VOTE THEM ALL OUT!! It was great to meet all of you Patriots and we look forward to more events and meetings. Hopefully we'll be more organized next time.

Here is the video footage as promised. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX4F_cb9AXk

I just saw a piece from Fox News who did the event justice. They said as many as 1500 hundred were there! I knew it was much more than RSVP'd but I do not think it was 1500. But we did have a PRESENCE. Ask Fox to put it on their website if you were not able to see it.

I got there at 6:45 and they were not letting anybody in. It was still great to see so many people actively protesting this thing outside. All the Obamatons must have been on the inside because everyone outside seemed to be against it. I heard Kathy ran out before the Q&A even started. I was talking to the guy that got roughed up by the union thugs and he was being interviewed by all the news crews and the police, so at least maybe the public might get to see who the real thugs are.

Was the Fox piece a fair representation of this meeting? Because I have to say that while I think it's great that many people are attending these townhalls to voice their opinions, the piece showed a lady repeatedly yelling at Rep. Castor to "READ THE BILL" and not letting her talk.

I think people should let everybody talk and have a bit of patience so that as many people as possible can ask questions. In my opinion, this opposition in that meeting was not represented well (I wasn't there)

All went well with this meeting until we found out that they let a bunch of Castor/Reed supporters in the other door. Then a group of about 15 pro-Obama people showed up and the language and shouting started. They came pushing and screaming throught the crowd like an angry mob. But it was nice, we outnumbered them and they did nt have an answer for anything you would ask them except to shout you down. We are on the road to taking our country back. See you in D.C.

"To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men"- Abraham Lincoln

I think it's important to attend these meetings regardless of weather you get in or not. It's not like these politicians are going to say anything we don't arleady know. The politicians need to see our numbers and hear our anger, even if it's just through a window or when running out the door to their car. The media also covers the crowd outside as well, so we get seen on TV even when not in the actual meeting. Just being there helps our numbers grow for the next event.

I happened to be one of the ones able to sneak in and blend in with all the SEIU/FCAN, It was pretty easy to blend in, I just had to look lost and un-intellegent. By the time the general public was allowed in, we were briefed on how to handle those opposed to the bill. Pretty Funny stuff if you consider the best they can do is put a sucker up to your face. What did they think we would do if we couldnt ask Castor any questions? I would love to see how Kathy Castor reports to Pelosi on this.

Here's a better video of the hallway scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGBi722T6iA

I seen Kathy Castor zooming away in her getaway car about 6:45. How cowardly. Dems/Repubs are so out of touch with America.
---I've seen articles referring Tampa 9-12 as right wingers...blah, blah, blah. Well you "bloggers" and so called reporters: I voted for Castor because she voted no for the Bush bailout (like a blue dog). After reading every bill she's voted on and tonight's experience.....Castor lost my vote for next election.