The reason Cravaack is in town is to meet with a conservative lobbying group.  It seems this "town meeting" is an afterthought. http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/207454/ 

Is there a large room in the airport for a real town meeting?  It seems like a poor venue for meeting with constituents.  What room at the airport can hold that many people comfortably? 

And it makes it look like he is just about to run out of town, which might be his excuse for leaving  after a few questions.

What's he doing at Sacred Heart?  Hopefully he knows where not to park?

I talked with Congressman Oberstar probably a half dozen times during his tenure in the 8th District. Once, when I just turned 18 and the Selective Service had just been re-instated. While registering, I wanted to make sure my form had conscientious objector status and the clerk at the post office refused to take my form. After calling Oberstar, the problem was resolved quickly. Other times, I met the Congressman at various functions and events and would talk briefly about various policy topics of the day. We didn't agree 100% of the time, but he always listened to my opinion and showed genuine concern. Cravaack, on the other hand, has never returned a call. The 2 times I have written to him, I got form letters in return that basically said, "I disagree with you, and will therefor ignore your concerns."

Adam! Do tell! What do you know about Cravaack and this Sacred Heart event on August 30???

I may not be able to make it tomorrow.
Someone should ask him why he supports striping union rights from airline workers, especially since he is currently receiving disability that was negotiated in an airline union contract on his behalf. Also ask if because of his stance on Airline Unions will he be willing to give-up those disability benefits?
http://mnpublius.com/post/3482658615/chip-cravaack-union-benefits-for-me-but-not-for-thee

The dood snores and that's disability? WTF????? No wonder his wife live in a different state than him.

The Skyline room at the airport is pretty large ... get there early.

Y'all made it onto the Huff Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/chip-cravaack-town-hall-meeting_n_934411.html

Not that I want to defend Chippy, but snoring is not the same as sleep apnea. Snoring is just that, snoring. Sleep apnea is not breathing, as in your brain doesn't get oxygen, making you much higher risk for stroke or heart attack. It can be a very serious medical condition.
Now, do I believe that it qualifies as a dissability? I'm not sure I can really answer that... :/

Except if he was a trained pilot with severe apnea, he would be at risk of falling asleep while flying (which is bad).

I'm not sure if disability means "you can't do the job you were trained for," or "you can't do anything else."

Obviously this guy was oxygen-deprived.

Are you fucking kidding me?  A hundred grand a year for sleep apnea?  That's Bachmann level dole!  Outrageous!

I don't care for the way Slingfade put it, and I don't like his blanket statement about the "derelicts" on this site - as in, I wonder if he has any idea how hard-working and community-oriented the people he references are?  However, I do like his point about trashing the Congressman. Sleep apnea seems like a bizarre reason to get a huge disability pension, especially if all of his training was paid, on-the-job by me and you via the US Navy. However, it is certainly not "snoring" as Bad Cat! indicated.  We can do better than put downs about his help.  There are substantive things to criticize him for.

Speak for yourself, Slingfade. I wore the uniform. Whatchagot now?

Yeah...but people actually WANT him to live in the state.





I really am sorry for that.  Couldn't resist.

Hey!  I said "sorry."

Protest away.