Actually, I am a little late to this story, but I think the message in it is ‘pay attention’ and find out the background of the person making the claim.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the Houston Chronicle<\/a> reported that U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee stated that she had never met Roxana Mayer, a University of Houston graduate student and Texas Obama delegate who had falsely identified herself as a pediatric physician at the congresswoman’s health care reform town hall meeting this week. <\/p>\n According to the article, there was no record at the Texas Medical Board of Ms. Mayer having a medical license. The article further reports:<\/p>\n “When queried by the Houston Chronicle if she held a medical license outside Texas, she responded via e-mail: “If my initial statement to the Houston Chronicle can not be substantiated, then I understand your responsibility to omit it.””<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Meanwhile, according to the article:<\/p>\n “A single protester at Jackson Lee’s event at St. Joseph’s, Bryan Klein, appeared at the conference room door, distributing leaflets.<\/em><\/p>\n He was escorted from the hospital by guards but continued to hand out leaflets outside the front door.<\/em><\/p>\n Hospital spokeswoman Fritz Guthrie said Klein was removed because the session was closed to the public.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The current healthcare debate is very important to the future of our country. An honest debate at this point would be very helpful. We need a little more common sense and honesty from our representatives in Congress and a little less chutzpah! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Actually, I am a little late to this story, but I think the message in it is ‘pay attention’ and find out the background of the person making the claim. On Thursday, the Houston Chronicle reported that U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson … Continue reading \n
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