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Democratic strategy for Allen West town halls: Get loud, get ejected, get coverage

Monday, June 6th, 2011 by George Bennett

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Look for the shouters to return this week when U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, holds his monthly town hall meetings in Davie and Boca Raton.

At a Palm Beach County Democratic Executive Committee meeting last week, Craig Borkon of the liberal group Organize Now coached partisans to show up at West’s meetings and get loud. When an audience member mentioned getting tossed out, Borkon said: “Let them throw you out. Finally maybe the media will put something in the paper saying he’s throwing everybody out that disagrees with him.”

Also at last week’s strategy session, county Democratic Chairman Mark Alan Siegel said that liberal radio talker Nicole Sandler, who got arrested at a West town hall in April, “was trying to help us make news that day by getting herself arrested. And she did.”

Read about it in this week’s Politics column.

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