Hundreds at raucous Farmingville (LI) health care meeting

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From Newsday...
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/hundreds-at-raucous-farmingville-health-care-meeting-1.1400321
More than 900 residents met U.S. Rep. Tim Bishop's promise to approve only a health care bill that "improves on a status quo that is unacceptable" with a mix of cheers and boos at a packed town hall meeting in Farmingville Thursday night.
The meeting with Bishop (D-Southampton) attracted about 500 more residents who were locked out of Sachem High School East, which was filled to capacity.
Residents who oppose President Barack Obama's plan to overhaul health care seemed to make up slightly more than half of the crowd, which at times drowned out Bishop - and each other - with jeers. The plan seeks to expand coverage and slow the growth of health care spending.

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Residents clustered around their vehicles waving signs, including "Honk if Obamacare is evil" and "We voted, we won, get over it."
Bishop left the stage quickly at the end of the meeting, stopping briefly to talk to reporters. He said he thought the meeting was productive. "I hope it was," he said.
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The article claims that the larger majority of the people were anti reform, but according to a number of comments from people who were actually there it was more like 60% pro reform to 40% against. And most of those anti-reformers were teabaggers bussed in from another district.

I am from the area, and I am literally kicking myself for missing this thing. From the looks of the pics, there were a lot of doughy white people there. I wouldn't be surprised if they were members of the Sachem Quality of Life group (a notorious anti-immigrant, racist interest group) that calls this place home. But from most of the pics, it clearly seems the pro reformers were the majority.