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Saturday, September 12, 2009

(Updated) A Nasty Email from "Taxpayer Justice"

Update: After a little digging I discovered this website: https://taxpayerjustice.us/ identified as the "Hobbs Tea Party." I note that Jeanie Coates, who's listed as Coordinator, uses the same "taxpayerjustice" ID as the person who sent the email below, but with an @gmail address. I wonder if she wrote the email.
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I got this loony tunes email this morning from someone called TaypayerJustice@wdo.com who's complaining about some post on the DFNM blog that isn't specified. I therefore have no idea what set the person off and motivated him or her to write this angry (and inaccurate) message to me. I guess the writer wasn't sufficiently proud of his or her muddled talking points to include a real name on the message.

I haven't yet answered the email and I doubt if I'll waste my time doing so. The tea party types usually don't listen to reason. In fact, they usually don't listen at all. They just spew. I can't imagine where this person got the idea that the blog I write receives taxpayer money. That's a hoot, isn't it? No, Mr. or Ms. or Mrs. Taypayer Justice, I produce this blog on my own, with no assistance from any government entities. Surprise!

At any rate, I thought it was a good idea to post the message to underline just how uninformed, rude and threatening the level of discourse has become in today's Limbaugh-Beck-Hannity-driven political environment. When a Republican U.S. Representative like Joe Wilson feels it's perfectly acceptable to yell out "you lie" at the President of the United States during a formal Joint Session of Congress, is it any wonder that members of the right-wing extremist GOP base feel justified in sending nasty, anonymous emails and generally acting like abusive, boorish, crude louts whenever and wherever they please?

The email (and, yes, it was all one paragraph as shown):

Funding for your organization
Sent By: "taxpayerjustice"
On: Sep 09/11/09 11:42 PM
To: "dfnm albq"
Cc: hobbsteaparty@gmail.com

I would like to know where your funding comes from and if the taxpayers are contributing to your political agenda. This is going to stop if so, I can assure you so get ready to pack your bags and move to some other state! We, the people are sick and tired of paying for organizations like yours that campaign against the very freedoms we cherish! Yes, we need health care reform. We do NOT need what DC is currently shoving down our throats. I can't believe you would promote such lies as this article! How dare you promulgate lies to further your socialist agenda? I am here to tell you now that your free ride at the expense of the taxpayer is ended! I would like to see PROOF of your allegations, including PROOF that these are ALL US citizens! NO ONE in America is denied care! I am so disgusted with your propaganda. We are seeking out organizations like yours and we intend to see to it that all funding from taxpayer dollars is cut off to anti-American agendas like yours. By the way, if someone ELSE has to pay for it, it is NOT your right! This article makes a lot of assumptions and I would like to see the facts and just how you based your conclusions to come up with this. I will be surprised if I even get a response because any time people start asking your kind for proof or facts, we are ignored or never get what we request. Well, we are not tolerating any more of this.

PS: For more examples of right-wing raving, check out recent crazy emails sent to Daily Kos.

September 12, 2009 at 12:10 PM in Civil Liberties, Healthcare, Immigration, Obama Health Care Reform, Republican Party, Weblogs | Permalink

Comments

Tea baggers saying that we get our money from the government is the new "George Soros checks."

Oh, conspiracy theories.

Posted by: Matt | Sep 12, 2009 12:52:51 PM

Clueless idiots are just so last year...

Posted by: Stephen Jones | Sep 12, 2009 1:04:56 PM

Well all they have are threats because they've ran out of anything else credible to say.

Posted by: Bettie | Sep 12, 2009 2:34:51 PM

If this is the coordinator of the Hobbs tea party people I wonder what the followers are like. Eek

Posted by: JJ | Sep 12, 2009 5:07:15 PM

That's a special kind of nutty.

Posted by: Josh | Sep 12, 2009 7:14:36 PM

Unfortunately I know for a fact, yes fact, that people are denied care in this country. My mother was turned away by a local hospital for treatment of her terminal cancer because she did not have insurance, I was there, I had to tell her we had to leave, I had to watch her go untreated for months until we could get her into a trial study, by then it was too late.

Posted by: woodstock | Sep 12, 2009 8:59:32 PM

LOL! What a hoot that one is. I never realized you were on the government dole. Are you packing your bags now? Leaving the state? :-)

Posted by: JaciCee | Sep 12, 2009 9:43:01 PM