Saturday's coverage of the Rochester Iraq War forum by KAAL-TV included this passage:
Some people became very heated during the discussion.
One man said he wanted Walz and other Democrats to end the war by exercising a political option to only push legislation that deals with Iraq, while excluding all other legislation.
We'd mentioned this man's statement in our own liveblogging. Next to the woman calling for the President and his cabinet to be jailed as war criminals, he was probably the most vociferous audience member making a statement.
Last night we found a thread with that linked BSP from a Ron Paul Meet-up group:
Well me wearing the shirt paid off. We get mentioned in this blog:
http://www.bluestemprairie.com/a_bluestem_prairie/2007/10/liveblogging-th.html
4:00 Representative Walz's second Town Hall meeting on the Iraq War is about to begin. This space is much more close, and the crowd is so far only about forty people. There are peace activists and Republicans, Ron Paulites and others.
This comment was from our member Bill Ruud:
4:50 The next statement is from a man who says he's tired of hearing about the sixty votes in the Senate to end debate. Walz says nothing else would happened: no SCHIP, no minimum wages. The man says there's nothing more important than ending the war. Let the Republicans filibuster for six months, shut it down, it's that important. About half the crowd claps and cheer
The link to BSP identifies the speaker as Bill Ruud. He expressed the same opinion in September at a Unity '08 meeting in Rochester, according to a Rochester Post Bulletin article now available via Google Cache::
At the library meeting, Bill Ruud called the war issue an "emergency" that overshadows everything else. "If spending all this money on the military continues,'' he warned, "there will be nothing left for health care or anything else. Right now I am a one-issue person."
It's interesting to learn that some of the most adamant opposition in the room on Saturday came from the right.
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