Here is another I wanted to add:
Montana Tea Party Protest of Obama
From Henry Kriegel on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:39 PM
This guest post by Henry Kriegel details a Tea Party protest at an Obama health care town hall.

The Bozeman Tea Party and supporters clashed with paid union thugs including Service Employees International Union, a group affiliated with ACORN and the Montana AFL-CIO who bussed down union members and paid community organizers from Missoula. While the Obama supporters arrived in the middle of the night, claimed our permitted area and had an early advantage with numbers and with positioning, we eventually turned out 300-350 people and tea-bagged them.

The opponents, who turned out approximately 150 people only a few of whom I could recognize from Gallatin County, initially outfoxed and out-positioned us. We tried several times to remove them as soon as we arrived in the early morning. The police were not able to remove them. Bill Dove, chief of airport security, using a megaphone told all of us that he and his men were there to protect the President of the United States and the Town Hall event, told the Obama supporters to leave our area and urged us to keep our cool. The Obama supporters refused to heed his order. Instead they continued to goad us. It was bordering on getting out-of-control but we refused to take the bait. We were outnumbered at that time—our people arrived late—and decided to back off, set up camp and do our program. After all, you can’t win a mud fight against pigs in a pig pen.

While we were regrouping, we eventually overran their chants. When our volunteer fire truck was set up with our loud PA system and put into position, we overwhelmed them and the battle was pretty much over. The fire truck was the perfect platform. I climbed on top and began our program welcoming our supporters to America’s Second Revolution. We kicked into high gear and pumped up the crowd. Tammy Hall also got it going. One guy, whom we never met before, Dr. David McKalip, a Florida-based neurosurgeon, took time from his Yellowstone Park vacation with his family and joined us when he heard about our rally. He gave a great speech. Dr. McKalip spoke about the need for accessible and affordable high-quality health care free from government intervention and the need to empower patients with the financial and decision-making power taking it from government and insurance companies. Anyone who wanted to speak got an opportunity. Janice Hall, an emergency room doctor from Billings and Jennifer Stillings, a local nurse both spoke. A woman from England discussed her country’s experience with government-run healthcare. Activists Bob Adney, Tom Tuck, Rep. Mike More (HD-70), Billie Orr and Stan Jones among others also spoke. Patient’s First, a national group was holding up the rear with their parked bus, gathering signatures on petitions and handing out information.

The opponents are led by paid hacks. In addition to union members, the Fund for Public Interest, a left-leaning pro-Obama non-profit organization is apparently paying $10-15 per hour, up to $600 per week for campaign workers to “go out in communities around the country and help make change happen.” With offices in Missoula, it is likely that the Fund sent people to the Friday protest.

Unlike many of the pro-Obama reformers, we are volunteers and do our work not for free, but at a personal loss and are proud to pay this small price for freedom. We, like most Montanans have a high level of distrust, concern and outrage over government control over private industries, and in this case the healthcare industry which comprises 17 percent of our total economy. We are tired of bank bailouts, massive unsustainable spending and government takeover of private industries such as the auto industry, the banking industry and the insurance industry. While many of us agree that healthcare needs reform, we also feel that the best place to start is with tort reform to reduce the costs of physicians’ malpractice insurance and incentives for maintaining health.

The Sunday prior to President Obama’s visit Tea Party protesters gathered at the Museum of the Rockies to greet Senator Max Baucus. Baucus, who acted like John the Baptist clearing the way for the arrival of the Chosen One, was in town to promote the Make Health Happen Montana conference. The President realizes the importance of Montana, in part due to Baucus’ position as Chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee and wanted to pressure the Senator into backing his more aggressive healthcare reform agenda.

While Baucus showed courage in getting out of his car and addressing Tea Party protesters for an impromptu question and answer session, his comments to the media the next day diminished our respect for him. In an interview with the Daily Inter Lake, Baucus said “he tried to talk with people protesting outside the conference, but said they would not let him speak” which is a fabrication. He said that one demonstrator “was bused in from Texas” implying that others were also bussed in is also a lie. We don’t need to bus people in because our volunteers, who in overwhelming numbers live in Gallatin County and vicinity, were willing to come out in full force on a Sunday night to stage this protest. Baucus went further in insulting us calling us “the closest thing to a mob that I’ve ever experienced in my life.” I guess he’s never been to a Cat-Griz game before. Insulting tea party patriots and offering patent lies is the new political speak and modus operandi of the White House. It is a shameful attempt to denigrate us, dismiss our concerns, and project blame. It’s unfortunate because we had some very credible people at the rally including Dr. JD Clark, a local podiatrist who asked Baucus a pressing question about government micromanagement of his practice; Peter O’Reilly, M.D., a retired anesthesiologist; local activists Nick Landeros and Dan Bennett and others spoke during the open mike session.

The scene outside the President’s Town Hall meeting nearly a quarter mile away in the free speech zone was in stark contrast to the kumbaya session inside the hangar. In the field, paid left-wing extremists led by paid members of the SEIU and community organizers, bused down along with Montana AFL-CIO members—the new brownshirts of our tim—were trying to cause havoc. They attempted to goad us into direct conflict; we ultimately refused, regrouped, got on message and blew them into silence once our program began. Some media were present but the stage for this confrontation was purposefully set far away from the President and the media entourage and was barely reported on.

Tea Party protesters and other groups are organizing a 912 rally in Washington, DC and at state capitals throughout the country including the Helena Capital. The bottom line is that we, the people, surround them, the paid union members and their loyalists. We tea-bagged them in Bozeman and will do it again in Helena and around the nation.

Henry Kriegel, a marketing professional, is one of the Bozeman Tea Party organizers and a talk show host of Open Range Thursdays broadcast on KMMS AM1450 from 4:00-600 pm.


Here are some articles that were done about Odumdum's visit to Belgrade MT which you hear them say Bozeman. It was technically Belgrade. I went to the local Belgrade Newspaper to get some information on it since I have been getting so many responding to the True story of what happened here.

Ladybear

2009-08-14

Locals must pick up tab for presidential visit
By Andy Malby, editor
When the dust settles and the president, his entourage and the cadre of national media following him around are gone, local agencies will be left with the costs of his visit.
And for some, the tally could ring up into the tens of thousands.
On Thursday, Gallatin County commissioners declared that President Obama's visit to the Gallatin Valley constitutes a 'state of emergency' for the sheriff's office. That enabled them to tap into a $52,000 slush fund to pay the sheriff's costs associated with the visit.......continued at:
http://www.belgrade-news.com/archives/view.php?article=11122

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2009-08-14

Protesters plan to stage 'tea party' rally at airport Friday

By Andy Malby, editor

People opposed to President Barack Obama's efforts to reform health care will stage a 'tea party' protest at Gallatin Field airport during the president's visit there Friday.

'As Barack Obama comes to Gallatin Field tomorrow for his town hall meeting, there will be more than a few Montanans waiting for him to express their displeasure with his plans to take over the nation's health care system, tea party organizer Bob Adney said in a statement Thursday.

'Montanans are coming from across the state to voice dissent to an out-of-control government determined to take over health care in America,' said Adney said, a member of the Bozeman Tea Party committee.

Adney said he expects at least 1,000 people to attend the rally at Airport Road and Frontage Road from 11:30 a.m., to 2:30 p.m...........continued at:
http://www.belgrade-news.com/archives/view.php?article=11123

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2009-08-14

Obama fever grips valley ahead of his Friday visit

By Michael Tucker, staff writer

They began lining up at 3 p.m. Wednesday, the die-hards who refused to be denied tickets to President Barack Obama's planned town hall-style meeting Friday afternoon.

By 7 a.m. Thursday, nearly 300 people were lined up around Belgrade City Hall, hoping to get a crack at tickets for the event. Most were disappointed, sent away empty-handed when the 150 tickets available at City Hall were gone 10 minutes after the doors opened.

By most accounts, folks in line were congenial, though some late arrivals were a little miffed that the tickets were doled out before the announced 9 a.m. hour, Belgrade Police Chief E.J. Clark said. But City Hall had nothing to do with the early distribution and most residents understood that.

'The city of Belgrade never had control of the tickets,' he said after the tickets were gone. 'We asked all day long yesterday and no one told anybody anything. The only people that were upset were the ones that showed up at nine this morning. We were only the distribution point.'

Staffers from U.S. Sen. Max Baucus' Bozeman office were in charge of distributing the tickets and they made the call to start handing them out at 8 a.m., when they drove into town, Belgrade City Finance Director Marilyn Foltz said. Each person was eligible to receive two passes, which meant the first 75 people in line got a shot at seeing the president. ............. contd at
http://www.belgrade-news.com/archives/view.php?article=11124

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2009-08-14

LETTER: Obamacare not about health or care


Today's health care 'reformers' would have you believe they are the compassionate ones; that those opposing 'health care' bills don't care about the poor and the sick.'

They say, 'Something's gotta be done,' and for 'reasons' incomprehensible they believe in the benevolent problem solving capacity of government.'

Historically, the poor have done better under free market capitalist systems, including health care.'Prior to Medicare and Medicaid, physicians gave more free or reduced-rate care to the poor.'Today, though crunched by underpayment from these government programs, physicians donate care valued at over $24 billion annually.

Hospitals give away tens of billions in uncompensated care.'Generous wealthy people and scores of charities, often faith-based, provided for much of the care for the poor before Medicaid. Americans that can't afford medications get help from the pharmaceutical companies via patient assistance programs.' Affordable generic and over-the counter medications are available for most diseases, and there is a Web site that helps locate affordable drugs.''

Besides, under Obamacare, health care will be withheld from those that most need it ' premature infants, senior citizens, cancer patients, and those needing complex surgery ' because their care is not cost effective.'

Bleeding heart 'reformers,' where is your compassion for these?'Is your claim of compassion a lie, or is it there but misplaced because of your blindness?

It is counter-productive to exaggerate and misstate the problem, and absurd to think politicians can solve it.'Honesty and transparency enhance the chances of serving those falling through the cracks.'

Tragically, the Obama administration's agenda of power through enslavement does not tolerate truth.'Fortunately, the health care boondoggle was not passed before we the people got to read it.'Despite the attempts at dumbing us down, we remain capable of figuring things out if we can access truth.

Annie Bu******, M.D.

Kalispell
http://www.belgrade-news.com/archives/view.php?article=11127

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2009-08-14
COLUMN: Talking Sense
By John Stossel
Big business goes for big reform

'What disturbs Americans of all ideological persuasions is the fear that almost everything, not just government, is fixed or manipulated by some powerful hidden hand,' Frank Rich wrote in Sunday's New York Times.

That manipulation should disturb us. But contrary to Rich, it is not the work of 'corporatists' who have sprung up to attack progressive reforms proposed by Obama and the Democratic majority.

Manipulation is what we got many years ago when we traded a more or less free market for the 'progressive' interventionist state. When government is big, the well-connected always have an advantage over the rest of us in influencing public policy.

Observe: Although President Obama and big-government activists demonize health-insurance companies, the companies 'are still mostly on board with the president's effort to overhaul the U.S. health-care system,' the Wall Street Journal reports; and ...

Although the activists criticize Big Pharma, 'The drug industry has already contributed millions of dollars to advertising campaigns for the health care overhaul through the advocacy groups like Healthy Economies Now and Families USA. It has spent about $1 million on similar advertisements under its own name,' the Times reports.

Big Pharma and Big Insurance want Obama-style health-care reform?

It's not so hard to understand. 'The drug makers stand to gain millions of new customers,' the Times said.

And from the Journal: 'If health legislation succeeds, the [insurance] industry would likely get a fresh batch of new customers. In particular, many young and healthy people who currently forgo coverage would be forced to sign up.' No wonder insurers are willing to stop 'discriminating' against sick people. (Forget that the essence of insurance is discrimination according to risk.)......continued at:
http://www.belgrade-news.com/archives/view.php?article=11129

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Hope this gives all a better look at what went on. In regards to the first article stating on the ticket distribution. Gee Senator Max Blackmail Baucus who is also Obama's head cheerleader and yes man was in charge of tickets. They were told to distribute tickets an HOUR earlier than what the public was told. This all says set up.
Ladybear