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47of74

(18,470 posts)
Wed May 10, 2017, 07:59 AM May 2017

Cedar Rapids had their fun with Bum last night

They had their turn with Bum

A day after a video of him walking out of a television interview went viral, 1st District Rep. Rod Blum walked into a basketball arena to face about 1,300 loud, unruly voters, most who disagreed with him on issues ranging from health care to President Donald Trump’s tax returns.

Their mood was clear from the start. When West Point-bound Ryer Barnes of Cedar Rapids finished the Pledge of Allegiance audience members shouted the final line: “for all … not just the rich.”

Blum, 62, who is in his second term representing the 20-county northeast Iowa district, was on his 2016 opponent’s home turf. He received 48 percent of the vote in Linn County last year, but that support either didn’t show up or was drown out by people who disagreed with his positions on health care and pretty much every other subject that came up.

Before he completed his opening remarks the crowd began chanting “questions, questions, questions.”
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Cedar Rapids had their fun with Bum last night (Original Post) 47of74 May 2017 OP
I was wondering who Bum was in your OP. Was that deliberate? riversedge May 2017 #1
Yes. Yes it is. 47of74 May 2017 #3
"Not just the rich!" Cairycat May 2017 #2
Yep. He's my rather useless Rep in Congress 47of74 May 2017 #4

Cairycat

(1,761 posts)
2. "Not just the rich!"
Wed May 10, 2017, 09:54 AM
May 2017

That's great, I hope they do that in Cedar Falls and Marshalltown too.

A quick Google of "Blum Iowa" quickly shows that he is the congressman for Iowa's First District.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
4. Yep. He's my rather useless Rep in Congress
Wed May 10, 2017, 02:30 PM
May 2017

Yeah I'm hoping he faces hostile crowds in those towns too.

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