Here’s how the Bucks County (Pa.) Courier Times described a Saturday meeting Rep. Patrick Murphy held in his district:
Minutes into the first of two scheduled “Congressman on Your Corner” sessions Saturday afternoon at the jam-packed Concerto Fusion restaurant in Morrisville, shouts from an impatient, frustrated crowd forced Murphy and his staff to reconsider the format of the event. …
Murphy’s about-face (in his opening remarks, he specifically told a woman “this was not a town hall meeting”) resulted in a 90-plus-minute, frequently contentious Q&A session with voters clearly emotional about health care. But the congressman kept his cool, listening to people’s concerns and defending his plans while occasionally asking hecklers “to be respectful.”
