Never mind that reporters and camera crews hovered nearby, snapping photos and recording video, or that over 150 people showed up to tell their Congressman in one-on-one conversations that they want him to vote against a resolution in favor of American military action in Syria.
Or that the meeting--and the overwhelming sentiment of those attending it has been reported in original coverage by the St. Peter Herald, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio, KARE 11, and the Mankato Free Press, with others sure to come.
Not good enough for Julie Quist, whose husband ran against Walz in 2012, receiving 42.33 percent of the vote. The St. Peter Herald reports in St. Peter residents tell Tim Walz to say 'no' to Syrian airstrike:
. . .But though everyone that came to the Co-op Friday was given a chance to speak to the Congressman, there were complaints that the forum was too small considering the enormity of the decision Congress will soon be faced with it.
"I'm glad he did it," Quist said. "But I call it 'Congress in a Closet.' People want to talk to him about this. I think he should have done something bigger." . . .
Really? A closet? All of the media coverage is fairly clearcut. Take MPR's coverage in Citizens to Rep. Walz: Do not vote to authorize attack on Syria:
When dozens of people in southern Minnesota had a chance to tell U.S. Rep. Tim Walz whether Congress should support military action against Syria for allegedly using chemical weapons on its own people, they universally said no.
This lede is repeated in story after story.
Here's the KARE 11 clip:
No Quist monopoly on sour: Hagedorn uses offical event to campaign
Wannabe Walz opponent Jim Hagedorn, seeking the Republican endorsment, put in anappearance at the event to campaign against Obama's Middle Eastern policy. Or something.
Joe Spear at the Mankato Free Press captured the moment on video, as a bug-eyed Hagedorn berates Walz, who remains a calm, if captive, audience:
Jim Hagedorn, who is running for Walz's seat, challenges him on Syria/Middle East policy http://t.co/DC0b4hJHmj
— Joe Spear (@jfspear) September 6, 2013
The beltway insider had attacked Walz in 2010 with a "white paper" on terrorism, as Paul Schmelzer reported in ‘Fear mongering,’ little substance in Hagedorn’s terror ‘white paper’.
Photo: Via the St. Peter Herald, a couple of Walz's constituents tell him no way for American military attacks on Syria.
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