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Civility reigns at Kind's town hall meeting
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Contributor | Penguin |
Last Edited | Penguin Aug 19, 2009 09:29pm |
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Category | General |
Author | Bill Glauber |
Media | Newspaper - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
News Date | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Maybe it was the ground rules: no signs, no disruptions and no long-winded speeches.
Maybe it was the location: a small city far from a big media market.
Or maybe it was the simple fact that several hundred people gathered at the tidy Richland Center Community Center with the intention of actually listening to one another and their elected representative on the emotive issue of health care.
Whatever the reason Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Ron Kind was able to lead a town hall meeting that was passionate, informative and, for the most part, civil.
"This is what we've been encountering in most of my public forums," said Kind, a La Crosse Democrat. "I don't know if it's homegrown Wisconsin civility. Obviously, passions run deep on both sides of the health care discussions. There was enough respect and courtesy where you can conduct a forum of this nature without degenerating into mob rule."
The standing-room-only crowd was so polite that nobody in the audience asked Kind whether he planned to run for governor.
That was left to the media. |
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