'Paid' activism claim by Rep. Mimi Walters staffer upsets Irvine town hall gatherers
'Paid' activism claim by Rep. Mimi Walters staffer upsets Irvine town hall gatherers
- February 24, 2017
- David Meyer, sociology, via the Orange County Register, Feb. 24, 2017
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Attendees of an anti-Donald Trump town hall meeting are upset that a staffer for their congresswoman, Rep. Mimi Walters, called them “paid activists.” UC Irvine sociologist David Meyer, [said]: “... politicians often label protests as ‘paid activism’ to discredit people that they don’t like. .... People say that the tea partiers were paid, and it wasn’t true.”
For the full story, please visit http://www.ocregister.com/articles/walters-744951-meeting-people.html.
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