Posted on March 19, 2010 by minneapolis mike

Last night I listened in on Keith “hey someone pay my way to the haj” Ellison’s phone town hall meeting.

He parroted all the Dem talking points, talked up the preliminary CBO scoring as if it was real, until later in the meeting when he had to admit it was a preliminary scoring of the bill. For the sake of “transparency”, you know.

To the Congressman’s credit, when I hopped into the queue to ask a question, his staffer didn’t disqualify my question out of hand.

Ellison represents MN CD5, which covers much of Minneapolis proper, and some first ring suburbs, like mine. So he is not operating in enemy territory, if you know what I mean.

He had some seminar callers who wanted to know when we might expect a move to a single-payer system.

He was quick to assure the callers who questioned the need to take such drastic action, that they could keep their current heathcare, skirting the truth that they will make it nearly impossible for your employers to keep providing insurance for you.

The one guy who brought up the blatant unconstitutionality of imposing a requirement to purchase a product from the Government was told that everybody needed to buy healthcare to keep the pool large to spread the cost over a larger group of people. He neither addressed the real question, nor offered any explanation of why it is constitutional.

There was a pretty fair mix of pro and con questions, so the Congressman’s staff is to be commended.

Although I was not afforded the chance to ask my question, you could leave a message at the end of the call.

My message was this:

If you vote for this clearly unconstitutional bill, I will work tirelessly to make sure you are not returned to Washington.

Take it to the bank.