Flashback to August: Alan Boyd, our elected representative, stood right here in Cross City to a packed building full of mad citizens, and said of Obama's planned takeover of the health care industry, “I promise you that that bill will never come off the House floor.” Today he announced that he's changed his mind, and he'll be voting for Nancy Pelosi's bill on Sunday. I'm reposting that entire August story as a reminder of promises betrayed...hold him accountable, Dixie.--Ed

The American flag was too tall. Too large for the room’s ceiling, it slumped forlorn in the corner where Representative Alan Boyd’s Assistant Travis Hart placed it after giving up on the effort of making it stand tall at the Women’s Club Cross City where Alan Boyd held a Town Hall meeting on health care on Monday morning. The Stars & Stripes was obscured by the TV camera crews, the reporters, the politician and his entourage, but the citizens of Dixie verbally took up the Colors, each one speaking in favor of liberty and freedom and against the proposed government takeover of the health care industry.

In the standing-room only crowd that spilled outside, not a single voice was heard in favor of House Bill 3200, “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009.”

Not one.

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