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Update: 7 Heated Town Halls: Voters Are Turning on GOP Senators

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Merge with: More Than 200 Republicans in Congress Are Skipping February Town Halls with Constituents [soylentnews.org]

from the disappointed-constituents dept.

AlterNet reports [alternet.org]

Republican members of Congress--at least, those who deigned to show up--faced angry constituents in district town hall meetings across the country [February 21]. Many of the meetings drew overflow crowds filled with local residents who turned out specifically to voice anger over GOP threats to Obamacare. [...]

1. In his home state of Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was roasted by a woman voter who questioned him on coal jobs and the Obamacare repeal.

2. Iowa's Chuck Grassley [...]

3. In Colorado, constituents held an "in absentia town hall" for legislators who were no-shows. [...]

4. Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey avoided his constituents altogether, but they went ahead with a town hall anyway. It featured an empty suit in Toomey's place, to which constituents directed their questions.

5. [...]Joni Ernst [...] cravenly ducked out of a meeting with constituents from Maquoketa, Iowa after just 45 minutes. [...]

6. Dave Brat of Virginia [...]

7. [...]Steve Womack [of Arkansas] [...]

In 2014, Tea Party-backed Dave Brat defeated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the Virginia Republican primary, claiming that Cantor wasn't Conservative enough.


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