"My Night in Town Hall Hell"

[Binders Keepers]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/opinion/my-night-in-town-hall-hell.html?_r=0

"Later I saw a memo by the Tea Party Patriots giving instructions to crowds like this across the nation. It was essentially a manual for what their strategy should be at a town-hall meeting: Scream loudly, be disruptive and make clear that a significant portion of the audience does not support the agenda.

"The night of my town hall, I knew the crowd was effectively stage-managed and that many people there didn’t live in my district. But I didn’t make an issue of that, as President Trump does now. It was my obligation — my job — to listen to disagreement. The people there were Americans expressing their anger and anxiety; exercising a constitutional principle to petition their grievances to government. It wasn’t a pleasant night, but it was a patriotic one.

"So my advice to those members of Congress who are hiding out or delaying is this: You can run for re-election, but you can’t hide from the American people."

(snip)

[Cha]

1. TY, BK!