Rep. Melissa Bean: Lapdog Democrat & Coward

During this August recess, a lot of Democrats have wilted under the heat from their constituents regarding Town Hall Meetings. Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL) is no exception. First, she says she's having a $25 per person Town Hall breakfast. Once she got outed, she changes it to a Chamber of Commerce breakfast. Not very slick.

Next, she slaps together a telephone Town Hall Meeting, but curiously doesn't notify her constituents until the last minute. Check out reports from two of them:

"While driving around Marathon Pundit-land, I switched on Mancow Muller’s WLS-AM show, and found out that alleged-Blue Dog Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL) will be holding a conference call “town hall” meeting.

Can anyone participate?

No.

I just called Bean’s office, and a nervous man answered the phone that the list of names of people who have contacted Bean’s office in the past can participate in tonight’s call.

I asked her staffer if I could be added right now, he said that “It was too late, the list for tonight’s call has already been submitted to a private company.

Bean is a coward, plain and simple.

But if you are on Bean’s contact list, you will receive a call between 8:20pm and 8:30pm CDT this evening. Answer that call.

Bean voted for both the $787 billion stimulus bill and the national energy tax, better known as cap and trade. She’s considering a second stimulus. "

Sample #2:

"I was signed up for IL Congresswoman Melissa Bean’s tele-town hall meeting tonight, but I never received a call as promised. I was told that I would receive a call between 8:20 and 8:30 CST. Instead I received a call just before 9:00 CST tonight with Melissa Bean’s recorded voice saying that she was sorry that I was unavailable when she called earlier in the evening. She then went on to list a number of topics that they had discussed during the “town hall meeting.”

I know they never called because I’ve been sitting by the phone waiting for her call all evening. They obviously had my phone number and name on their list or I wouldn’t have receive the apology call at 9:00. Perhaps they recognized my name from letters that I’ve sent in opposition to Obamacare.

But the biggest problem I have is believing that they actually managed to hold a town hall meeting, take questions from all of her passionate constituents, cover all of the topics she mentioned in the phone call and manage to have the meeting last less than 30 minutes.

Give me a break!"

Now for the real Doozy:

"I just talked to her staffer and only people who have signed up previously will be on a telephone townhall tonight (approx 8:30 cst ).

I have called her office for 3 weeks to find out where and when she would be meeting with 8th district residents. I was told repeatly that the scheduler was working on it. I asked numerous times if it was a face to face vs a telephone town hall. I was lied to. She is a coward-an arrogant incompetent coward.

I guess I’ll have to get my signs ready and get to the Concorde banquet facility for the Lake Zurich Chamber of Commerce breakfast. Bacon Eggs and BS."

So you can put Melissa Bean in with Barack Obama, Dick Durbin, Mark Kirk, and Jan Schakowski as a group of Illinois Politicians doing great damage to this nation. (HT Michelle Malkin):

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