At a town hall event on health care reform hosted by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) earlier this month, Midge Hough told the tragic story of how her daughter-in-law, Jenny, and her unborn grandchild died recently because they didn't have health insurance. Jenny came down with "severe double pneumonia, Septic shock and Respitory failure," Hough said, "and laid in an ICU unit for the next two months at a cost of $22,000 a day." Her baby died in the womb and Jenny died a few weeks later. But as Hough was telling her story, tea partiers at the meeting "ridiculed" her, the South Town Star reports. "They moaned and rolled their eyes and interrupted," laughing loudly and shouting her down at points. Watch it (beginning at 1:30):
Chicago Tea Party Patriots sent out a flyer to encourage attendance at the event, saying Lipinski had "sold us out!" by voting "to pass socialized medicine." In defense of the heckling, an organizer for the group falsely claimed that the Houghs fabricated their story and called them operatives of President Barack Obama who "go from event to event and (cry) the same story." At another recent event, Hough told Gov. Pat Quinn (D-IL) that she has been "personally attacked" by tea party activists at her home address. (HT: Crooks and Liars)
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