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NC Senator Kay Hagan Ignores Tough Questions, Taps Softballs at Her Twitter Townhall

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North Carolina Senator Kay Hagen is one of the weaker Democrat candidates defending her chair in 2014, but her attempt to engage voters in a “twitter townhall” event today didn’t help her much.

First off, she was late to her own twitter event… how are you late to something you can do in your pajamas, from an iphone? https://twitter.com/SooperMexican/status/321628908577497089  

Some of the questions she answered included this slowpitch softball from the vice chair of the Young Democrats of North Carolina:


What are the chances that a dem operative asked a dem politico a question that she had already took action on?! Let me grab a calculator real quick…

Oh by the way, that tweet was made about 45 minutes before the event. Perhaps that’s why Hagan was late – she was looking for the dem planted question.

At one point, Hagan’s press secretary prompted one of the softball questions from a twitter user:


She accepted his question: It’s no surprise why – this twitter townhall was really just an attempt to publicize a letter she sent to the VA to address the deplorable state of backlogged veterans’ claims. While this effort is laudable, the townhall in no way was meant to actually engage the voters on questions they want answered.

She took a question from an actual constituent and a veteran:

But he was completely disatisfied with her answer, which she couldn’t deign to follow up:

 

What about the questions she didn’t accept? Here’s one from an Army veteran about how Obamacare has raised rates after Kay Hagan specifically said it wouldn’t:

This vet was later told to “f**k off” by one of Hagan’s supporters. Kay Hagan took a question from this liberal tweeting obscenities to a veteran at a twitter townhall about veterans, but didn’t take any of the questions from the veteran. Another about Obamacare ignored:

She also ignored all the questions about Benghazi:

 

No questions accepted about her hostility against the 2nd amendment:

 

 

 

The event lasted 24 minutes, with hundreds of tweets from her constituents, but Hagan took only 6 questions, all of them fodder for her to press her agenda.

All in all, not a good showing for Kay Hagan on twitter… better luck next time!!

Michelle Malkin’s Twitchy has some more coverage on #AskKay