Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) threw a protester out of a town hall last night in Phoenix when she shouted at him before he started the meeting.
“Ma’am, you’re gonna have to stop or you’re gonna have to leave,” McCain said. “Goodbye, see ya.”
The crowd cheered as the woman, dressed in pink and carrying a cane, was escorted out.
The tone of the meeting was markedly different than one he held Tuesday in Sun City, a retirement community in Arizona. That meeting was packed with health care reform opponents — mostly white senior citizens — many of whom booed when McCain said President Obama believes in the Constitution.
At Wednesday’s event, one town haller angrily asked McCain why the senator deserves better health care than him. After the event, while McCain attempted to answer questions from the press, another audience member yelled that he gets hundreds of thousands of dollars from insurance companies.
“Really?” he answered. “I didn’t know that.”
Late update: We were curious about whether the woman who got kicked out was for or against health care reform. (You can only hear her yell, “Insurance!” in the video.) But her position was unclear to a McCain spokeswoman, who tells us she was standing just five feet away.
