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Video: Disgusting Congressman Pete Stark (D-CALIF)

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Pete Stark brazenly mocks constituents at town hall meeting

Andrew Steele
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June 31, 2010

Looking like a burnt-out teacher with three years left to retirement presiding over an after school detention session, Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA) took great pleasure recently in alienating his constituents at a town hall meeting by marginalizing the Mexican border issue and issuing sarcastic, belittling answers to reasonable questions that were asked of him.


When a Minuteman– part of a group that voluntarily patrols the Mexican border and reports crossings by illegal immigrants–stood to ask a question, Stark first asked him, “Who are you going to kill today?” Then in response to the question itself, which was why the federal government wasn’t doing more to seal the borders, Stark mockingly responded, “We’d like to get all the Minutemen armed so they can stop shooting people here.”

Stark then went on to make other amazingly detached and dismissive retorts which sparked outrage from various members of the audience, including a round of applause when the Minuteman asked his question again. Stark then insisted that the border was secure, which invited more jeers.


Politicians have always been accused of pandering to their constituents and offering transparently phony promises to address their concerns, feeling that a false front of sincerity was enough to placate their critics. In recent history however, politicians have reacted to voters with arrogant ridicule and outright hostility as a mass awakening has caused Americans to increasingly exercise their duties as citizens to become more politically active, challenging the dominance of the establishment that keeps career politicians in office.
Pete Stark’s performance at the town hall is the most brazen display of disdain from a politician towards ordinary Americans since Bob Etheridge assaulted a student who asked him a question on the street a few weeks ago. Such displays show that the masks are falling off the controlled authorities of the nation as the metaphorical lizards underneath them are revealed. Now, instead of rushing to put the masks back on, some political reptiles are deciding to show their true faces, baring their teeth and lashing their tongues out at their stunned constituents, whom they once at least pretended to represent.


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I saw that piece and Congressman Stark is a true horse's patootie. "Disgusting" is exactly what Pete Stark is.

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Circulate this on Facebook, link it to whatever forums you are on...this guy is as arrogant as most other liberal Democrats but he is not very bright in covering it up. This video should be seen by as many people as possible.

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both of them were idiots. The Congressman for being a jerk to his constituent and the guy for saying to build a wall "as high and as long as it takes.
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The problem is Stark keeps getting re-elected by the same group of liberal idiots. Perhaps if the rest of the country
made Stark's constituents feel the 'heat' then they might elect someone more suitable. Just a suggestion.

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Mahonri wrote:both of them were idiots. The Congressman for being a jerk to his constituent and the guy for saying to build a wall "as high and as long as it takes.
None of the solutions bandied about on Capitol Hill are going to fix the problem. The problem isn't that the government needs to get more involved. The problem is that the government is TOO involved, it's created an artificial market that the illegal's find desirable. It gives them medical care, creates a black market for true wage jobs, protects them for free with police, etc. Take away those government services and protections and the desire for people to come here will evaporate.

Building a wall won't help, the basic laws of supply and demand will present a solution to any artificial barriers we impose. Making the tax payers pay for a huge military presence at the border isn't going to be any more helpful then making them pay for the illegals medical care and welfare assistance. In many ways we're trading one problem for a potentially worse problem.

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Hyrcanus wrote:
Mahonri wrote:both of them were idiots. The Congressman for being a jerk to his constituent and the guy for saying to build a wall "as high and as long as it takes.
None of the solutions bandied about on Capitol Hill are going to fix the problem. The problem isn't that the government needs to get more involved. The problem is that the government is TOO involved, it's created an artificial market that the illegal's find desirable. It gives them medical care, creates a black market for true wage jobs, protects them for free with police, etc. Take away those government services and protections and the desire for people to come here will evaporate.

Building a wall won't help, the basic laws of supply and demand will present a solution to any artificial barriers we impose. Making the tax payers pay for a huge military presence at the border isn't going to be any more helpful then making them pay for the illegals medical care and welfare assistance. In many ways we're trading one problem for a potentially worse problem.
Putting a lock on our doors isn't going to keep thieves out or our homes if we have valuables inside. We should all just leave our doors unlocked and oblige the theives by having nothing of value to tempt them with.

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Squally wrote:
Hyrcanus wrote:
Mahonri wrote:both of them were idiots. The Congressman for being a jerk to his constituent and the guy for saying to build a wall "as high and as long as it takes.
None of the solutions bandied about on Capitol Hill are going to fix the problem. The problem isn't that the government needs to get more involved. The problem is that the government is TOO involved, it's created an artificial market that the illegal's find desirable. It gives them medical care, creates a black market for true wage jobs, protects them for free with police, etc. Take away those government services and protections and the desire for people to come here will evaporate.

Building a wall won't help, the basic laws of supply and demand will present a solution to any artificial barriers we impose. Making the tax payers pay for a huge military presence at the border isn't going to be any more helpful then making them pay for the illegals medical care and welfare assistance. In many ways we're trading one problem for a potentially worse problem.
Putting a lock on our doors isn't going to keep thieves out or our homes if we have valuables inside. We should all just leave our doors unlocked and oblige the theives by having nothing of value to tempt them with.
I'm definitely not suggesting doing nothing, I want the problem fixed as badly as anyone else. I'm only saying that we're creating the problem for ourselves by having a system that allows people to come here and mooch off our system. If instead the government maintained its proper constitutional role, we wouldn't have a huge illegal immigration problem.

To be fair, I shouldn't have said it flatly won't help. It would help to some degree, I just don't think the benefit would be worth the cost when we have some much cheaper alternatives that would solve many of our other problems in this country.

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