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Maria Meacham Gets Arrested In DC - Business Insider
House Republicans Have Military Mom Arrested for Supporting theTroops
House Republicans Have Military Mom Arrested for Supporting theTroops
Rep. Kurt Schrader [D-Or] sought to repeal a 2003 amendment that reduced battle pay by $180 per month. What followed was an "anemic" Yea from House Dems and an enthusiastic "No!" from House Republicans.
Then came giddy high fives between Republicans Rep. Ben Quayle and Rep. David Schweikert, Meacham claims.
The military mom, who told Woodbury that the act felt insensitive and hurtful, decided she had to say something.
Pay the soldiers or bring them home! she shouted two times. Then Why dont you take a pay cut to help the soldiers?
A security guard approached her and told her that she wasn't supposed to be shouting. Meacham sat down. Then, she said, the acting House Speaker wouldn't stop staring at her.
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Two security guards approached Meacham and asked her to leave with them.
Once outside, the guards put Meacham in cuffs and took her to a detention center, where she says she was subjected to booking procedures as well as a battery of drugs tests and questioning, which oddly enough including asking if she was affiliated with any one political party or group.
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House Republicans Have Military Mom Arrested for Supporting theTroops
Maria Meacham knows how it feels to be a military Mom who is smacked down by Congress for having an opinion about members of Congress who callously high five each after denying our soldiers a modest pay increase.
Here is video of the House vote on May 26, 2011 via C-SPAN:
House Republicans Have Military Mom Arrested for Supporting theTroops