| By Dave Harding, ProgressOhio - Aug 15th, 2009 at 8:56 am EDT |
Senator's health-care meeting criticized
Friendly groups got more notice, records suggest
But a trail of e-mails and phone calls suggests that Democratic organizations had a heads-up about the event that everyday people did not have.
At 1:31 p.m. on Tuesday, Brian Rothenberg, executive director of ProgressOhio, an independent organization closely linked to the Democratic Party, sent an e-mail urging backers of President Barack Obama's health-care changes to show up.
"We need you to hold a sign in support of health-care reform, be positive and smile for the cameras," Rothenberg wrote. He said a number of different groups supporting health care -- including the Service Employees International Union -- would be there.
At 1:49 p.m. Tuesday, Brown's staff sent a media advisory about the event. When asked about the event Tuesday, Dubyak said space would be limited.
And after receiving the media advisory directly from Senator Brown's office when did the Columbus Dispatch post or publish anything about the event taking place the next day?
In the middle of the night the day of the event over thirteen hours after receiving notice that the townhall was taking place.
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Is Jack Torry really claiming that the Dispatch Media organization including WBNS10TV did not publish the announcement provided to them of the event being held the next day for 13 hours because they are a "Democratic friendly organization"?
It's true that the righties seem quite upset that they were overwhelmingly outnumbered by supporters of Health Insurance Reform at the Senator's event in Columbus this week and now the Columbus Dispatch takes no responsibilty for the fact that they took no action to publish the information they were provided about the event in a timely manner.
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The Social Security Town Halls and campaign rallies that President Bush gave were all packed with invited Republicans and there weren't headlines about that back then.
Remember the Denver 3, who were kicked out of a Bush event for parking their car two blocks away from the venue and having a "No Blood for Oil" bumper sticker.
The Dispatch ought to be assigning its reporters to investigate how the health insurance industry is bankrolling the astro-turf deathers who aim to kill freedom by disrupting Town Halls. Actually, that fact is already well-documented by real journalists such as Rachel Maddow.
Btw, I would like the people who complain about discrimination against conservative and religious causes to know that a passing motorist yelled out "bitch" at me because I was wearing a pink planned parenthood tshirt on the way home from the rally. This kind of bullying of pro-choicers is routine.
Health Care Town Halls are big news these days.
The Dispatch is stating that they waited to publish notice of a Health Care Town Hall in Columbus with a Senator who is a champion on the topic in Washington and across Ohio until the next morning after receiving notice of it (and on the day of the event) while claiming some "unfair advantage" because others did choose to publish it as soon as they learned about it?
The Dispatch clearly let their readers down on this story and to make this bogus claim that their failure was due to partisanship by Sen. Brown's office is a lie.