Cenk Uygur
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Taking Away People's Health Care Can Get Awkward...
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10:14Now PlayingSure it’s good to talk to your voters, but sometimes it’s just easier to sneak out the back door. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"One day after voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a Republican Congressman in Colorado was caught sneaking out the backdoor of a community meeting on Saturday after being overwhelmed by constituents concerned over the future of their healthcare.
U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman had invited Colorado voters to the Aurora Central Library in suburban Denver to meet "one-on-one" with the lawmaker and "discuss the issues that are important to them."
However, with the meeting scheduled one day after Coffman voted in favor of a budget resolution that paves the way for ACA repeal and co-authored a Denver Post op-ed defending the move, the congressman was apparently overwhelmed by hundreds of constituents who wanted answers regarding the healthcare cuts.
According to reporting, people were kept in a waiting area while only four at a time were allowed to meet with the representative. After Coffman spoke with roughly 70 individuals, he reportedly snuck out the back door.
Coffman's exit marked a very literal exemplification of the critique that the Republican party is simply going to "repeal and run," as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) has put it, rather than work to improve healthcare for millions of Americans.
Krondia Siebert told local News 9 that she "just wanted Coffman to hear her concerns," the outlet reported. "But, she ended up trying to organize the crowd that gathered outside the large community room," which eventually broke into a chorus of "This Land is Your Land.”*
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