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Cops Bamboozle Old Timers to Leave Feinstein's Office

Police called on retirees at senator's LA office

By OLSEN EBRIGHT

Updated 9:00 AM PDT, Fri, Jul 31, 2009

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The healthcare debate really is getting ugly.

Police tricked a group of retirees who refused leave Sen. Dianne Feinstein's West Los Angeles office on Thursday.

The protesters demanded Feinstein talk to them about healthcare reform.

She wasn't having it, so police lured the seven protesters outside somehow and then locked the doors behind them, said Los Angeles police Sergeant Rich Brunson.

A spokeswoman for the 55- to 87-year-old activists told The Associated Press that they arrived at Feinstein's office around noon and remained in her conference room more than six hours.

Feinstein spokesman Gil Duran said staff had offered the retirees an in-person meeting with the senator during a Los Angeles visit next week but that they demanded to speak with her immediately.

No arrests were made, Brunson said.

Copyright Associated Press / NBC Los Angeles

First Published: Jul 31, 2009 8:37 AM PDT

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I honor the office but in the case of CA Senators, if they weren't Dems, they'd be out of office."},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"390259_52195487","adminTags":null,"views":1868,"createdBy":7918844,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":981571,"mediaName":"Cops Bamboozle Old Timers to Leave Feinstein's Office","parentThreadId":-1,"mediaId":981571,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":"externalmedia","createdAt":"31 Jul 2009 19:33:37 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":6,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"anonymous_user","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"511472","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"Right on, mr./ms anonymous. I was born and raised in Illinois, and now live in Wisconsin. Believe me, the rest of the country is darn tired of having California ship their trash to the rest of the country.. thats how we feel about the likes of Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer, et al. here in \"fly over\" land.\nIf you must elect jerks like this, keep em at home.. we have our own trash, thank you very much.. Feingold, Obey, etc"},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"390259_52195487","adminTags":null,"views":1868,"createdBy":7918844,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":981571,"mediaName":"Cops Bamboozle Old Timers to Leave Feinstein's Office","parentThreadId":-1,"mediaId":981571,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":"externalmedia","createdAt":"31 Jul 2009 23:07:02 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":6,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"anonymous_user","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"512889","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"What made me laugh in this was the fact that they kept her trapped in her conference room for 6 hours. I wonder if there's a bathroom in there. LOL I am sorry they got tricked into leaving, but I am so very glad that I am sure they made her uncomfortable. I would like to make her feel extremely uncomfortable. She, and those other elected nuts from California, have certainly contributed to our misery in a number of ways over the years. I am a Kansan and their attitudes about us ordinary, honest, hard working great people in \"fly over\" country is disgusting. They don't even know what real people are they have been in their ivory towers so long. They are plastic people living in a plastic world. I am sick to death of them. "},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"390259_52195487","adminTags":null,"views":1868,"createdBy":9460349,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":981571,"mediaName":"Cops Bamboozle Old Timers to Leave Feinstein's Office","parentThreadId":-1,"mediaId":981571,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":"externalmedia","createdAt":"1 Aug 2009 14:09:16 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":6,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"HolidayChock","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"515098","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"I was born and raised in California and you have it right those pukes have been made it impossible to survive in that beautiful state! I had to leave there 3 years ago. \"Dee\" (Feinstien) and her out of touch friend \"Bab's\" (Boxer) have talking out of both sides of their faces -- riding on the backs of the elderly for too long. \nI can think of nothing more appropriate that \"Dee\" hiding out in her back office for six hours too afraid to face those mean ole' 55-87 year old bullies she so inaccurately claims to represent. Time is up, \"Dee\". \nGlad they are standing up, keep it going old timer's, the nation is watching. \nI just hope they will do it again and again and again and again.\n"},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"390259_52195487","adminTags":null,"views":1868,"createdBy":7918844,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":981571,"mediaName":"Cops Bamboozle Old Timers to Leave Feinstein's Office","parentThreadId":-1,"mediaId":981571,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":"externalmedia","createdAt":"2 Aug 2009 15:59:25 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":6,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"anonymous_user","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"519131","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"I'm a 4th generation Californio, my husband is 5th...3 more years and we're outta here. Feinstien was probably hiding because she was afraid that those big bullies would suggest that SHE be required to take the same government run healthcare she's trying to push down our throats! The really sad part is that none...NONE of the local LA TV stations carried this. Kansas, you don't have to live outside California to be considered beneath her. I hope she stays in her conference room. Good place for her."},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"390259_52195487","adminTags":null,"views":1868,"createdBy":9612153,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":981571,"mediaName":"Cops Bamboozle Old Timers to Leave Feinstein's Office","parentThreadId":-1,"mediaId":981571,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":"externalmedia","createdAt":"4 Aug 2009 01:46:16 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":6,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"oldereveryday","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"527359","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"What a shame that Feinstien's staff treated these citizens, and by the way some of their bosses, is such a disrepectful way. It doesn't matter what side they were on, what they had to say was important. I understand that Feinstein probably wan't there, as the Senate hasn't gone home for the summer yet, but could she not have taken 5 minutes out of her day to speak to them via phone and try to personally set up a meeting with them for next week. This dismissal by Feinstein of these citizens is just one of the problems with letting Senators and Representatives stay in office forever, they become so self-important that we no longer matter."}],"error":"","totPages":1}

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