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09-04-2009, 03:31 PM #1
NC-Town hall crowd vents wide-ranging anger at Rep. Spratt
Town hall crowd vents wide-ranging anger at Rep. Spratt
Charlotte Observer
By Matt Garfield
mgarfield@heraldonline.com
Posted: Friday, Sep. 04, 2009
U.S. Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., talked to some of the crowd following a town hall meeting on health care Thursday night in Rock Hill.
ROCK HILL - A hostile crowd greeted U.S. Rep. John Spratt in his home county Thursday night, filling a 700-seat hall to voice anger over far more than health-care reform.
Many in the Rock Hill audience lashed out at illegal immigration, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a federal government they say no longer deserves the trust of Americans.
Outside, an overflow crowd of 200 listened on portable speakers.
The loudest applause inside a packed Baxter Hood Center might have come when a Fort Mill man denounced Pelosi for one criticism of opponents of Democratic reform efforts.
“One of the things that really made me angry is being called a brown shirt,â€
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