Ed Failor, Jr. “The employee threw out the employers tonight”
- Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 22:17
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Ed Failor, Jr., President of Iowans for Tax Relief, issues the following statement to The Iowa Republican following tonight’s public hearing where Speaker of the House Patrick Murphy ordered State Troopers to remove citizens who had gathered for the forum on federal deductibility.
Failor told the Iowa Republican, “Tonight Iowa House Speaker Pat Murphy displayed his complete and total disrespect for Iowa taxpayers. He had more than 600 Iowans removed from the very House Chamber that exists only because of the taxes they pay.
The misbehavior that earned their ultimate ejection was polite applause for speakers who oppose eliminating federal deductibility.
The employee threw out the employers tonight. Speaker Murphy’s behavior is historic in its disregard for the very people who provide his paycheck.”
Failor himself was kicked out of the House chamber after an altercation with Speaker Murphy.
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Over at Radio Iowa there is a slightly different spin on this.
http://learfield.typepad.com/radioiowa/
Uh, how does this provide a different spin?
Ed, you should have stuck to your statement above and not acted like a child last night.
What exactly was the “altercation with Speaker Murphy”?
That was quite a tantrum, Eddie my boy. Real grown up stuff.
Yeah, check out the recordings from the radioiowa link helpfully provided by Conservative Demo. I have to side with Murphy on this one. That crowd was pretty raucous, and that kind of stuff has no place in the chamber.
Remember when it was the hippies and radical lefties that were always staging ultimately pointless protests? Remember when it was the hippies and radical lefties that would call everyone else fascists and jack-booted thugs when these childish protests were broken up? Remember when it was the Democratic Party that had the stomach-turning habit of enabling and apologizing for its radical elements? My how times have changed.
After the presidential election, the dissection of “what went wrong with the Republican Party” was a very popular topic of discussion. Generally speaking, there were two opposing explanations: (1) the principals and ideology of the conservative movement are perfect and infallible, its just a question of “getting the message out”; vs. (2) the party is too beholden to its ideological purists and extremists and needs to come back to the middle, lest it become a permanent and angry minority. From what I can tell the first explanation has been winning within the Republican party. If that is true, then I believe that this kind of thing is just a foreshadowing of what is to come. This sort of behavior – tantrums, overheated (and off-putting) rhetoric – is a symptom of that kind of party – the party that is utterly beholden to its extreme ideological wings.
All of this is good news to the Democratic Party. But its terrible news for moderate and pragmatic citizens. Without a viable opposition, the Democrats are going to have the room to tack farther and farther to the left without fear of losing the middle.
Ed’s behavior last night was just plain stupid. So was Murphy’s. Both need to grow up. Sad this is what we have for leaders in our state.
I would like to congratulate the brave Iowans who take the time to stand up against the tax-and-spend liberals that are running Iowa into the ground. Thank you so much Ed for being the man you are in representing us taxpayers of Iowa. I wish I could shake your hand.
Yes, that type of behavior has no business at a public hearing. I mean, could you imagine if that happened in Washington DC? Those people would probably get arrested!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnmpD1fwnw