Evil Heartless John Linder (R-GA 7th) Insults a School Custodian

Thank goodness this creature is not my congressional representative. He's the seventh, I'm in the fourth. My mother went to one of his townhall meetings last week and he said something astonishingly vicious.

In the meeting, a woman spoke up and described her problem. She was an Eastern European immigrant and naturalized US citizen. She worked as a custodian for the county school system; her husband worked in bus maintenance for the school. She also had a medical condition she needed an operation for. She either couldn't work at present, or was soon going to have to stop working because of her inability to get the operation (my mother said her English was OK but not that easy to understand). She wanted to know what John Linder could do to help the situation of his underinsured constituents.

He turned to the rest of the audience and said, "She wants YOU to pay for her operation!"

He didn't even bother to make sympathetic noises. That was his only response. He quickly moved on to a more important matter: denying the existence of global warming.

This is a woman who works at one of the jobs that is vital for the infrastructure of our civilization. I can't believe how disrespectful he was.