DEM’s are invading GOP’er neighboring districts to “shame” them. Who’s gonna take that walk? – PB/TK
Democrats Are Shaming Republicans by Holding Town Halls in GOP Districts – By Graham Vyse l May 9 2017
You would have thought they were his people. The hundreds who packed a congressman’s town hall in Kingston, New York, on Monday night gave him a standing ovation. They waved signs and took photos of him. “Thank you! Thank you!” they chanted. But when the congressman took the microphone a few minutes after 7 p.m., smiling in a crisp suit and tie, he began by acknowledging what everyone knew: that most of the people there weren’t his constituents at all.
“Hey, listen, I have a question for you,” he said. “I’m Representative Sean Patrick Maloney. Where the heck is your congressman?”
Maloney, a Democrat who represents a neighboring New York district, had come to Kingston to shame Representative John Faso, one of the many House Republicans who backed the American Health Care Act last week but are refusing to hold town halls to defend their votes. (Faso’s spokeswoman, Courtney Weaver, told me he had a scheduling conflict on Monday, but it’s clear he isn’t looking for a raincheck.) “If you’re going to change people’s health care, and you’re proud of it, stand up and explain it,” Maloney told the crowd. “I think, if a member of Congress won’t stand up and do that, something is very wrong, ladies and gentleman.”
That’s why Maloney is pitching a new tactic in the fight to save the Affordable Care Act: “adopt a district,” in which Democratic congressmen hold town halls in neighboring, Republican-held districts. “Let’s just imagine for a minute,” he said, “if, in every district in this country where a member of Congress voted for this terrible health care bill [and] they won’t hold a town hall meeting, what if somebody else adopted that district—might be a Democrat!—and went in and did what we’re doing tonight?” he said. “We can adopt a district everywhere, from California to Maine to Florida to Washington State.”
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