Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D., N.H.) was unable to make a meeting in her home district — she remained in Washington, voting on the Sotomayor nomination — but heard about a big crowd showing up at her district office hours.

After the Thursday mix-up, Shaheen chastised the protesters, saying in a statement that they “should be ashamed of themselves” and their actions, including taping private citizens who didn’t want to be taped and generally “impeding the ability of New Hampshire citizens to get the help they need,” which, she said, “is a line that shouldn’t be crossed.” To calm the whole thing, Grafton Police Chief Merle Kenyon reports that there was no major ruckus in Grafton, no arrests, no warnings, not much to report.
“It wasn’t terribly dramatic,” Kenyon said. “We had quite a few people” (but not, he notes, as many as come to town meeting in Grafton). Libertarian videographer Dave Ridley, he said, was “in everybody’s face.” And “one guy did a couple of stump speeches, but it’s all public property.”
He said he was disappointed with Shaheen’s statement on that matter. “She makes it sound like people were out of control, doesn’t she?” Kenyon said. “There was nothing out of hand.”

Still, according to the rumor mill, it was quite a ruckus. Cannibalism, sharks were swimming through the business district, hundreds of bodies had been stacked in the basement . . .