Comments on: Not Sure Quite What Happened at the Schakowsky Event http://archpundit.com/blog/2007/08/29/not-sure-quite-what-happened-at-the-schakowsky-event/ Illinois, From Misery Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:39:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bored now http://archpundit.com/blog/2007/08/29/not-sure-quite-what-happened-at-the-schakowsky-event/comment-page-1/#comment-4386 bored now Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:34:03 +0000 http://69.89.31.63/~archpund/2007/08/29/not-sure-quite-what-happened-at-the-schakowsky-event/#comment-4386 i guess i should have come here yesterday. i completely agree, there were no chants of "beltway, beltway!" to jay footlik: "one seals supporter asked footlik's manager where footlik voted last year (footlik has maintained his voter registration at his mother's house in the 9th congressional district since he left home to go to college). but the real fireworks exploded when footlik's manager tried to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ argue about it. BELTWAY! BELTWAY! went the chant." i guess i should have come here yesterday.

i completely agree, there were no chants of “beltway, beltway!” to jay footlik:

“one seals supporter asked footlik’s manager where footlik voted last year (footlik has maintained his voter registration at his mother’s house in the 9th congressional district since he left home to go to college). but the real fireworks exploded when footlik’s manager tried to
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argue about it. BELTWAY! BELTWAY! went the chant.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://archpundit.com/blog/2007/08/29/not-sure-quite-what-happened-at-the-schakowsky-event/comment-page-1/#comment-4385 Anonymous Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:43:27 +0000 http://69.89.31.63/~archpund/2007/08/29/not-sure-quite-what-happened-at-the-schakowsky-event/#comment-4385 The reports were correct for the most part. I cannot verify the "beltway" chants but the rest is accurate. I came home from the event in the mainroom, to emails from those in the outer overflow. And this morning received several calls, detailing the events exactly as written and before I had a chance to read them myself, directly from the sources themselves. That isn't to say that they were rude or overly noisy, when confronting Jay - in fact, one of them told me that she was surprised to see herself being blogged about- and that someone must have been listening to their conversation, which implies that they were not intended to embarrass Jay but were real expressions of their frustrations with him. This was unscripted and happened because the group was prevented from entering the main room -the women who spoke to Jay were meeting and speaking with him for the first time- and he didn't make any good impressions, turning his back on one of them as soon as she said something he didn't like (the question on where he voted in the presidential election) And he's NOT solidly against the war. He's said enough conflicting things that people I know do not trust him. He's already being forced to walk the same line as Kirk and people have had enough of that kind of duplicity. Oh, and the report is that Jay was not really civil, and went negative on Dan. Way to win hearts and minds! The reports were correct for the most part. I cannot verify the “beltway” chants but the rest is accurate. I came home from the event in the mainroom, to emails from those in the outer overflow. And this morning received several calls, detailing the events exactly as written and before I had a chance to read them myself, directly from the sources themselves. That isn’t to say that they were rude or overly noisy, when confronting Jay – in fact, one of them told me that she was surprised to see herself being blogged about- and that someone must have been listening to their conversation, which implies that they were not intended to embarrass Jay but were real expressions of their frustrations with him. This was unscripted and happened because the group was prevented from entering the main room -the women who spoke to Jay were meeting and speaking with him for the first time- and he didn’t make any good impressions, turning his back on one of them as soon as she said something he didn’t like (the question on where he voted in the presidential election)

And he’s NOT solidly against the war. He’s said enough conflicting things that people I know do not trust him. He’s already being forced to walk the same line as Kirk and people have had enough of that kind of duplicity. Oh, and the report is that Jay was not really civil, and went negative on Dan. Way to win hearts and minds!

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