THIS is how SENIOR CITIZENS deal with Congress Members!! Remember this? Dan Rostenkowski ...

[in_cog_ni_to]

made the mistake of underestimating the power of Senior Citizens. In 1989 Old Rosty was visiting Copernicus Senior Citizens Center on Chicago's North Side and things didn't go well for him. You just HAVE TO READ THIS ENTIRE ARTICLE! It's a story that warms the cockles of the heart. :D

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"These people are nuts," Rostenkowski muttered as he pried open the door to the car, got in, and told his driver Mike to get the hell out of there. Mike blew the horn and began inching away from the curb, but the furious knot of sign-wielding protesters encircled the car and blocked the way, forcing Mike to lurch to a stop. Rostenkowski and his aides were trapped. When Mike tried to inch the car forward again, a tiny, white-haired woman leaned forward over the hood. "You hurt her!" screamed a man. "You're trying to hit her! You're trying to run her down!" Panic and fury swept through the crowd, redoubling their rage. Screaming, they bashed the car with their fists and their placards.

The woman was Leona Kozien, and she would later become a minor celebrity as Rostenkowski's chief tormentor this day. With her rose-colored, heart-shaped sunglasses and a placard that said "Seniors for Repeal of the Catastrophic Act," she hardly looked like a match for the beefy congressman inside his heavy sedan. But she was not to be denied. On an impulse, she began slowly climbing up the hood. Kozien, a woman who had never before gotten involved in any kind of demonstration, now was spreadeagled on the hood of Rostenkowski's car.

She continued to inch her way forward until her face was pressed up against the windshield. Peering through the glass, she was eyeball to eyeball with the by-now badly shaken Rostenkowski. "I was a little nervous," Kozien later told reporters who clamored to interview her. "But I could see through the car window that he looked more afraid than I was."

With no other way out, Rostenkowski suddenly sprang from the car and started half-running, half-walking up North Milwaukee Avenue. "There he goes!" somebody in the crowd shouted. "Coward! Coward!" shouted others. "Recall!" "Impeach him!"<snip>

http://www.businessweek.com/chapter/mirage.htm

Congress best remember who they work for.

[PoliticAverse]

1. There's video here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qre7DzEtxyc&feature=player_embedded

[Demeter]

2. Unfortunately, That's What It Takes

That and more, for every traitor in the land.

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. Yep...they have to be forced into doing what they were voted into office to do. Seniors

just will NOT take their shit. Mess with their Medicare and SS? You will wish you hadn't.

[Lifelong Protester]

4. Thanks for posting, I had forgotten about that.

I'm ready to go at it here in WI. We are practiced at the placard thing.

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. It's a fond memory.

:) Politicians need to be reminded, from time to time, just who employs them. WE pay their wages.

[Historic NY]

5. Surround and drown them...they can run but they can't hide.

[bananas]

6. k&r nt