The latest member of Congress to run into hundreds of angry constituents is Representative Steve Kagen, Wisconsin Democrat. Local television said “hundreds were turned away” from a Green Bay “listening session” and that most “came to tell their congressman to keep the government out of their health care.” The local paper said that the room with 300 seats was filled, and that another 50 were standing inside.

Judging from the video, there’s a bit of shouting, which is less than ideal, but it appears to be a very Wisconsin crowd – older, middle class, USMC caps, etc.

UPDATE: One of my readers was in attendance:

I was at Rep. Steve Kagen’s health care sales pitch yesterday in Green Bay. Kagen was ridiculed and screamed at for the whole listening session. The crowd just exploded at him with some comment. The room sat 300, but the aisles were initially full and a sizable crowd was force to remain outside the auditorium. Kagen’s two big “THE PARTY’S OVER” posterboards weren’t fooling any of the crowd and as he explained them, Kagen was shouted down. He stated “there will be a vote by December” to which the crowd went nuts. WTAQ local talk radio was the only media there for any length of time. There were 300 people inside, about 10-20 people (not percent) were there to clap for Kagen. There was even a fight in the lobby with the local labor union dudes ‘cuz the venue was too small and people were not allowed in. The cops showed up at about 8 p.m. “to assist with crowd control.” Kagen kept his cool though. I left at 8 p.m. but the crowd was still itching for a fight.

ANOTHER UPDATE: The local Democratic party is blaming “unruly radicals” who used such nefarious tactics as “getting there early.”