Teabagger vs. Teabagger: Chicago tea group distances itself from hecklers

December 1, 2009 · Posted in Healthcare reform, Politics 

From Thinkprogress: word that a group called the Chicago Tea Party Patriots, which encouraged its members to attend a town hall earlier in the month, is belatedly trying to distance itself from what it calls a “splinter group” responsible for heckling a woman whose daughter-in-law and unborn grandchild died because they didn’t have health insurance. The Tea Partiers’ website has been replaced by a message claiming they had nothing to do with the heckling, and don’t condone it. It reads in part:

Due to a high volume of hate mail regarding this tragic story, we feel
it necessary to clarify that the original Tax Day Tea Party of
Chicago has no organizational involvement in what happened on November 14th.

Furthermore, we feel this type of action is irresponsible, gross in nature
and completely uncalled for. While the Tax Day Tea Party of
Chicago certainly disagrees politically with
Dan and Midge Hough on the healthcare debate, we in
no way wish to act malicious towards the family and we
send our deepest sympathies to them for their loss.

They also helpfully link to the offending group — the Chicago Tea Patriots’ — contact page, basically encouraging the outraged to send their angry emails there. And it only took, what, a couple weeks to figure out that shouting down a woman over the death of her loved ones, including an unborn infant, was a bad thing. So far, no response from the insane Catherina Wojtowicz and her merry mobsters.

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