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Democrat Pat Murphy Kicks Out 500 Taxpayers from Public Hearing

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What happens when you invite citizens, taxpayers, your bosses to a public meeting on how you want to raise their taxes?  Well, in Iowa it looks like if you don’t like what you’re hearing, you call the police and kick everybody out.  Nice move.  From the DesMoinesRegister:

House Speaker Pat Murphy, D-Dubuque, cleared the crowd at about 8:30 p.m. The decision brought about loud protests as the crowd was escorted from the chambers by Iowa State Patrol officers.

“This is the most atrocious thing I’ve seen in the history of the 15 years I’ve been a lobbyist. Pat Murphy has acted like a jack-booted Nazi,” said Ed Failor Jr., president of Iowans for Tax Relief, a conservative taxpayers’ rights group from Muscatine with 50,000 members..

Failor Jr. was escorted from the House chambers after Murphy overheard him speak with the media.

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