Republican lawmakers hold telephone town halls as protesters demand more

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Source: ABC News/AP

March 7, 2025, 6:16 PM


HOLLAND, Mich. -- Protesters demanding an in-person town hall from their western Michigan GOP congressman chanted loudly Friday as honking drivers signaled support, disrupting the usual calm of a conservative family vacation town. Mere hours later, Rep. Bill Huizenga held a town hall — by phone. The vocal disruption seen outside his Holland office earlier in the day was absent, as the more controlled setting allowed for questions from people who wrote and called in. “I know this may not be satisfactory to some who would like to just create a scene and be, you know, be disruptive,” Huizenga said on the call. “But we know that this is extremely effective for reaching people.”

Some Republicans have opted to hold telephone town halls after GOP leaders in recent days have advised lawmakers to skip town halls that have been filled with protesters decrying President Donald Trump administration’s slashing of federal government. GOP lawmakers have at times found themselves at a loss to explain the cuts, led by billionaire Elon Musk’sDepartment of Government Efficiency, that are leaving federal workers suddenly out of jobs in communities across the country.

Trump and other Republicans have accused paid activists of taking control of town halls. On Tuesday, Huizenga told News Channel 3 in west Michigan that the outreach overwhelming his office was “funded and organized by outside partisans.” Meanwhile, longtime Holland resident Linda Visscher and other protesters faced freezing temperatures and falling snow outside Huizenga’s office on Friday.

Holding a sign that read, “Our House seat is not your entitlement, you are accountable to your constituents,” she insisted she wasn’t being paid to protest. “I’m trying to think of a nice way of saying B.S. They are not activists,” said Visscher, who said her political affiliations “lean towards liberal.” “People who go to town halls are concerned citizens. And just because some of the representatives are getting yelled at or uncomfortably questioned doesn’t mean that you stop doing it," she added.

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[Walleye]

1. And the Republicans are against remote work when it benefits anybody else.

But they are perfectly fine with phoning it in when they’re scared which they are all the time

[underpants]

2. Kash Patel wants to head the FBI from Vegas

He doesn’t like wearing a suit either.

[Walleye]

3. A true kakastocracy

[Blue Full Moon]

4. They are not worried about constituents. They don't need to be.

[Icanthinkformyself]

5. Exactly

"Elon knows all about those election computers." "You won't have to vote again". "I don't need you votes".
And, the Democratic response to the lose of our democracy is the same old useless, failed bag of nothing strategy. Reaching out to disaffected Republicans and young voters, dismissing and disparaging the progressives in the party and looking for compromise with people who don't compromise. Republican voters are conditioned to hate Democrats. Young people don't trust them and for good reason. The only people in the party who are trying are the progressives. The moderates in the party are sell-outs, just as much grifters as the Republicans. Dunzels.

[mdbl]

7. Had to see if Star Trek originated that term. Apparently not

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/550254/does-anyone-have-know-the-etymology-of-dunsel

[Martin68]

6. Good news.

[mdbl]

8. Trump and other Republicans have accused paid activists of taking control of town halls.

Paid activists??!? The asshole obviously doesn't look at who's there. We are poor people you are trying to make poorer, and quickly just to line your already bloated pockets.

[Buddyzbuddy]

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11. The Shitweasels are scared of us. Good!