Meeting the People Vol 18

From Detroit:

U.S. Rep. John Dingell was greeted with jeers and cheers Thursday as he tried to explain why changing the nation’s health care system — as he has advocated for more than a half century in Congress — makes sense.

Despite what some protesters said, “there will be no payment of taxpayer funds for abortion,” Dingell, 83, told the crowd.

As Dingell opened the forum, Mike Sola of Milan interrupted the congressman as he pushed his son, Scott, in a wheelchair, to the podium. He said proposed changes wouldn’t help Scott and called Dingell a fraud.

Being a liberal Democrat congressman is much tougher these days than anyone probably thought it would be after the 2008 election.

It's also tough to be a constituent. The father mentioned above was threatened after challenging Dingell.