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Marjorie Taylor Greene gets heckled and protesters tasered at town hall [1]
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Date: 2025-04-16
Two protesters at Marjorie Taylor Greene's Town Hall at Acworth, Ga., outside of Atlanta, were tasered by and removed by police providing security.
At least six people were escorted out of the Acworth Community Center. Three were arrested, including the two tasered, who were charged with simple battery on a law officer and obstructing a law enforcement officer. The third was charged with using vulgar language. That did not seem to apply to MTG. She got away scott free.
Here's a clip of the action from the BBC.
In order to get into the town hall, attendees had to write down their addresses to prove they were one of Greene's constituents and show ID. There were dozens of protesters outside.
So all the hecklers and tased individuals were valid constituents. The rest of the crowd clapped as protesters were removed and MTG said, "Bye," each time one was removed. There were approximately 150 people and looking at videos, plenty of empty chairs.
She spent most of the time showing clips of herself at committee hearings beating up witnesses and making a fool of herself as usual, but she doesn't see it that way.
MTG only took pre-screened questions from a slide deck. Some of them didn't work well for her.
One question was, "Why is MTG supporting Musk and DOGE and the slashing of Medicaid, and Social Security offices, libraries and more? This is outrageous."
You can just hear MTG's nasal whine when she said in response, "Well, Sarah, unfortunately you're being brainwashed by the news you're watching."
According to CBS, the location of the event was not shared publicly, so I'm wondering how anyone showed up for the event at all. Maybe she sent out email invitations. So it's not clear how anyone got there, much less the protesters.
When you spend most of the time watching self serving clips, and then only answer pre-screened questions so you can come up with a snide remark for those critical, and never answer any real questions, doesn't make it much of a town hall.
Most Republicans are avoiding town halls altogether. Does Greene have a clue that constituents are unhappy? Apparently not. She got what she was looking for, a captive audience, and ones that wanted answers got thrown out.
That's MTG. Just looking for strokes instead of doing her job.
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