Way back in September, 2009, newly-minted Sen. Mark Warner held a town hall meeting with Fredericksburg-area residents to discuss health care. Warner had taken a great deal of flack in the months preceding this meeting over his reluctance to engage his constituents on the issue in an open forum, so the event drew, by Warner’s own estimate, a crowd of over 1,800. At the meeting, Warner said he wanted to discuss his aims for health care reform:
Number one, it cannot add to the federal deficit. Number two, we have to start driving the cost of health care down, for all Americans, all across the board. And number three, … change the financial incentives we have in our health care system.”
Right.
Those attempting to revisit how that meeting went, and to see if anything Warner said has actually come to pass, though, will have a very hard time getting information from his website [1]. The helpful link [2]Warner provides to view “the entire town hall” turns up an “error” message:
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Those things are known to happen. Fortunately, C-SPAN is a better curator of such videos, and you can watch the entire town hall meeting here [4].
Maybe we will have better luck with Mr. Warner’s PowerPoint presentation, the one he used to open the discussion. Clicking on that link [5] leads us to another dead-end — a presentation that has disappeared.
There could be a very good explanation for why these particular links on the Senator’s page refuse to work. But we should recall Warner has a habit of trying to make inconvenient material disappear [6] from the Internet.
Someone could make a pretty snappy campaign ad on that subject…