Indivisible group promoting town halls really organized network of liberal activists on the attack.

Pat Powers

The liberal activist group “Indivisible” recently started a shouting match at a recent town hall in North Dakota, after inviting North Dakota US Representative Kevin Kramer, as related by North Dakota political blog Say Anything:

On Thursday last week Rep. Kevin Cramer accepted a town hall invitation from a local chapter of the national left wing group Indivisible which, per their website, was formed to “resist” the policy agenda of President Donald Trump.

The event got a little shouty, and in an interview Friday Cramer described the event to me in a radio interview as a “scheme” intended to provoke a “YouTube moment” of the Congressman saying or doing something stupid.

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But it’s a shame that a partisan left wing group like Indivisible would pervert the intent of such events, turning from a satisfying sort of civic engagement to a stage managed political spectacle.

Read it here.

More recently, the South Dakota chapter of the same group tried to gin up negative publicity for South Dakota’s delegation by announcing a fake town hall in Sioux Falls, placing empty chairs on the stage, aping Clint Eastwood at the GOP National Convention by trying to claim that the delegation was absent.

But was their goal actual discourse and discussion? Of course not. They’re not holding town halls. They’re holding hate rallies. Their sole goal is to attack Republicans.  Interestingly, in North Dakota, where Democrat Senator Heidi Heitkamp is, the local Indivisible Chapter has exempted her from their demands.

In case you missed the point, this sounds like an effort being organized and coordinated to attack Republicans on a nationwide basis:

Leaked audio from an anti-Trump protest group meeting reveals activists with anti-Trump group Indivisible plotting how to best manufacture a hostile environment at a town hall with Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana on Friday.

The audio, obtained by local radio station KPEL, reveals a coordinated effort to create the public impression that Cassidy’s support for Trump is unpopular with his constituents. The activists, who describe themselves as liberals in the audio, can be heard strategizing how to best turn a local town hall into a political victory.

The activists split up into an “inside team” — tasked with occupying “as many seats as we can” and an “outside team,” whose job was to “give [the media] the coverage they want” before joining the others inside. Activists were instructed to dress like conservatives and leave at home “any signifier that you’re a liberal” in order to blend in with constituents.

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“Game plan number one is to fill as many seats as we can, right? If it’s all of us in there and the poor people of Breaux Bridge are sitting behind us, well then tough luck for them,” said one organizer, identified by KPEL as James Proctor. His “poor people” comment drew laughs from the other activists.

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“The Indivisible Guide does say that when you start to lose the meeting, that’s when you boo and hiss,” one unidentified activist can be heard saying. “Right, I was going to say that,” another activist replied. Local news outlet The Advertiser reported that members of the crowd “frequently interrupted, expressing disagreement with some of Cassidy’s positions and shouting out their own questions.”

One woman can be heard on the audio saying she was in contact with the national Indivisible organization.

Read it all here.

Infiltrate town halls. Shut out locals who have legitimate concerns. “The guide” says to boo and hiss when you start to lose the meeting.

It sounds like this group is far less concerned with legislators meeting with their constituents, and more like an angry group trying to continue to run the political campaign they just lost.

28 thoughts on “Indivisible group promoting town halls really organized network of liberal activists on the attack.”

  1. Heaven forbid a group of loud, frustrated, mobilized activists express their deep discontent with current/future policies. Why can’t we just go back to 2010 when everybody had the common decency to dress up in their finest colonial garb and yell at Democrats?

    But in all seriousness, drop the ad hominem attacks. Don’t focus on who they are, focus on what they’re saying. What’s frustrating people? If you ignore that for too long, things will just get worse.

    1. What’s frustrating these activists is the fact that their liberal agenda lost this time around. And if we focus on what they are saying, all we hear is hate, maligning the other side as bigots or racists or worse. It would be nice to be able to listen to their concerns, and I think the legislators would like to do that, but it is impossible when all the activists do is shout, disrupt, and “resist.” Act like grownups and maybe you could get your point across.

    2. In all seriousness, Trump’s presidency is what happens when you ignore the opinions of a large group of people and leave them frustrated. Dems take NO responsibility for the pendulum swing away from an overbearing POTUS.

  2. I think it’s okay to call out a bunch of out-of-state hired haters for what they are. The Demoncrats just can’t accept that they lost the election, and they are acting like petulant children. I don’t recall the Tea Party acting like a bunch of unruly, spoiled, entitled brats.

    What is frustrating ME is that the liberals are not willing to accept that everybody doesn’t like the government to control absolutely everything, like the libs do.

    I think PP put it right in this post.

    2. A bunch of out of state haters? Are you sure? The name is Indivisible 605. Organizers live in Sioux Falls. One of them is my neighbor. Get your facts right.

      1. Did we ever doubt the never ending Weiland campaign family wouldn’t be involved in a leftist group if money wasn’t involved?
        After all, public dollars and these left wing advocacy groups have been supporting this family for years. Advocating and saying one thing but living much different. I’ve been done with Parkers since last year. Please, go away Weilands.

  3. I understand now walking into a political ambush; however, it does seem to raise the question as to why legitimate town hall meetings were not scheduled by the candidates on friendly ground. I don’t think EVERY discussion of the issues in DC needs to be negative.

    If the “haters” stop our elected officials from doing their jobs, from communicating with constituents, isn’t that a win for “them?”

      1. Because this is a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and because we have freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion.

          1. Nobody said being a Christian made us perfect, or that our nation being founded on Judeo-Christian prniciples was always perfect. But to disallow a prayer while supposedly promoting tolerance etc while screaming hate is quite hypocritical, isn’t it? You really don’t have to answer that; it is evident for all to see.

          2. Um, when I looked, there were a LOT of Christians who died to set those same people free. I do not believe Christianity is a factor in this one.

      2. What are you basing your question upon? Are government people not allowed to be religious? Please point to the part of the Constitution that says a prayer is not allowed. If people do not want to pray, who is forcing them to?

        1. And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their reward. 6But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

        2. So, you wouldn’t at a political forum with only a muslem prayer and the assumption that you are of that religion?

          The bible clearly forbids the flaunting of religion in order to try to impress others. Why do christians insist in ignoring that?

          1. So glad to see that your wonderful posts and insight are back. It is not flaunting religion to impress others when offering a prayer such as this; it is simply asking for wisdom and thanking for living in our democratic republic where we are (or at least were) able to voice our opinions and religious beliefs.

            Just a little thought here. If you were in a Muslim majority country, do you think they would be OK with a Christian offering a prayer at a public meeting? Of course not, and that is their right as it is the mores of that particular nation. Well, this is a Christian majority country, like it or not. It doesn’t mean that we discriminate against other peaceful religions, but it also doesn’t mean that we have to forego the basic mores our nation was founded on.

            1. This is NOT a religious tyranny as you propose with your muslim analogy.————” that is their right as it is the mores of that particular nation.”— That sir, is what is demanded by isis, al quada, and religious fanatics in those countries……….. That is what you think this country is?

              “So, you wouldn’t have a problem at a political forum with only a muslem prayer and the assumption that you are of that religion?– Will you answer the question?

              Is this part of your bible not serious?
              And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their reward. 6But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

              ———————
              “the basic mores our nation was founded on.”– That means a religion MORE American than others, that can be imposed on others with government approval?That sir, is the complete opposite of what the Founders wanted.

  6. If you read the Argus story on the SD group, you’ll note that one of the organizers is Paul Batcheller, former Daschle staffer, and another is Kate Hayes, former Herseth Sandlin staffer (and Nesselhuf).

    1. And Clara Hart, who so famously declared she felt safer in a refugee camp than in Sioux Falls.

      1. Dem staffers organizing against the GOP delegation shows that this is not some spontaneous, organic resistance.

  7. The allies of the far-Left groups keep reporting that they are acting like the Tea Party, but the Tea Party movement was truly grassroots and while members of its ranks sometimes became too vocal, they were not organized with the express plan to shout down the speakers in order to silence their voices and discredit them.

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