{"id":79161,"date":"2017-03-26T05:36:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T09:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=79161"},"modified":"2017-03-25T21:57:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T01:57:30","slug":"local-action-group-demands-tenney-provide-proof-of-paid-disrupters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=79161","title":{"rendered":"Local Action Group Demands Tenney provide proof of \u201cpaid disrupters\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Madison Chenango Call to Action, a nonpartisan group of Congressional District 22 constituents, has demanded that Congresswoman Claudia Tenney back up her statements about \u201cpaid disrupters,\u201d made in a Feb. 3<\/span> interview on Capitol Tonight<\/span>, a week night show political show on Time Warner Cable news stations across Upstate New York. Tenney had made such statements a number of times, in various venues.<\/p>\n

Referencing Tenney\u2019s statements, \u201cIf I didn\u2019t have disrupters who are paid, who are trying to prevent me from getting to my constituents and helping them,\u201d and \u201c \u2026 there are groups that are being funded to go out and disrupt,\u201d Madison Chenango CTA has requested, in a letter, that Tenney provide them with evidence regarding who has hired and is paying the disruptors, how much they are being paid, and how arrangements are being made as to the nature and location of the \u201cdisruptions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMadison Chenango Call to Action is a nonpartisan group of Tenney\u2019s constituents who share concerns over many of her policy decisions. We are dismayed by her refusal to meet her constituents in Town Halls, and her characterization of those who disagree with her as \u201cpaid disrupters.\u201d We would simply like Ms. Tenney to show us the evidence she is using to draw this conclusion.\u201d says a spokesperson for MC-CTA.<\/p>\n

Following is the full text of the letter:<\/p>\n

Dear Ms. Tenney,<\/em><\/p>\n

In a February 3 interview on Capitol Tonight, you commented that, like President Trump, you too found yourself having to cope with \u201cpaid disrupters.\u201d You stated, \u201cIf I didn\u2019t have disrupters who are paid and people who are trying to prevent me from getting to my constituents and helping them\u2026\u201d You further stated, \u201c \u2026 there are groups that are being funded to go out and disrupt.\u201d When asked, \u201cfunded by whom,\u201d you were unable, or unwilling to give a specific answer.<\/em><\/p>\n

Madison Chenango Call to Action is a nonpartisan group of constituents from your district who are concerned <\/em>with the extreme policies of the Trump administration and with your voting record that so far supports them. We are also concerned with your characterization of your constituents who have expressed these concerns as \u201cpaid disrupters.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

We are therefore requesting, respectfully, that you provide us with evidence of who has hired and is paying these \u201c<\/em>disrupters,\u201d and how much they are being paid, as well as how the arrangements are made as to the type and nature of the \u201cdisruptions\u201d they are paid to cause.<\/em><\/p>\n

We look forward to hearing from you soon.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lisa Oristian,\u00a0Madison Chenango Call to Action<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Madison Chenango Call to Action, a nonpartisan group of Congressional District 22 constituents, has demanded that Congresswoman Claudia Tenney back up her statements about \u201cpaid disrupters,\u201d made in a Feb. 3 interview on Capitol Tonight, a week night show political show on Time Warner Cable news stations across Upstate New York. Tenney had made such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-kAN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MCCPaperLogo.jpg?fit=800%2C678&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}