FroshUpdate - Barletta Faces Feisty Town Hall
Rep. Lou Barletta faces down a fiesty town hall, and Rep. Allen West calls the President a socialist. On the better side of the ledger, Rep. Patrick Meehan began a town hall by asking everyone to say a short prayer for Gabrielle Giffords. This is FrumForum’s FroshUpdate for April 22, 2011.
TOWNHALL MESS: Lou Barletta, R-Pa., faced a feisty town hall crowd on Wednesday, reportedly prompting police to escort out one attendee, after voting in favor of the Republican budget and its hefty Medicare reforms. http://bit.ly/grIfGR // Barletta’s office claims that the disruption is part of a wider plot by Democratic activists and Moveon.org to disrupt GOP town halls across the country. http://bit.ly/fomzAG
BIPARTISANSHIP: VIDEO: Before U.S. Rep. Patrick Meehan began a town hall meeting on Wednesday, he asked everyone to say a little prayer for his colleague, Gabrielle Giffords, who was wounded during her own public event. http://bit.ly/faV6aM
LESS BIPARTISAN: VIDEO: Rep. Allen West: Obama a 'Low-Level, Socialist Agitator' http://fxn.ws/e54pqD
VULNERABLE FROSH: National Journal has compiled a list of the ten Republicans most vulnerable to redistricting in the the next election. Among them are freshmen Reps. Allen West (FL-22), Joe Walsh (IL-08), Robert Dold (IL-10), Bobby Schilling (IL-17), Jeff Landry (LA-03), Andy Harris (MD-01), and Bill Johnson (OH-06). http://bit.ly/hDz8OW
ONE YEAR LATER: Rep. Jeff Landry (LA-03) blasted President Obama on Thursday for failing to visit the Gulf Coast on the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon blowout, as well as claiming that Obama has been "working hard to end domestic energy production in the Gulf, putting thousands of Americans out of work and millions more paying nearly $5 a gallon for gasoline." http://bit.ly/gHs1Ns
Rep. Bobby Schilling (IL-17), touring a plant in his northwest Illinois district, said that spending cuts would have to be done with a "scalpel, not a machete," in order to protect manufacturing jobs. http://bit.ly/fAcOvv
Rep. Sandy Adams (FL-24) has introduced a bill to outlaw a legal hallucinogen known colloquially as "bath salts" because of potentially violent side effects. http://bit.ly/dQDJCi
Freshmen in tough districts face an uphill battle in fundraising for their 2012 reelection campaigns, according to a New York Times profile. http://nyti.ms/hQkaDk