Kansas folks asked 4 Reps/Sen to #TownHall: None showed so they put out 4 Empty Chairs and held
their own town Hall.
Good for them.
February 23, 2017 7:54 PM
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/36gw8y/picture134649084/ALTERNATES/FREE_640/town%20hall%2002222017%20spf%200040f
Members of Congress from Kansas, Missouri talk to constituents — but not at town halls
Indivisible KC held a Kansas Constituent Health Care Town Hall on Wednesday at Overland Park Christian Church. The organization said it invited Sens. Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts and Reps. Lynn Jenkins and Kevin Yoder, but all four declined the invitation. On the panel were (far left) Sean Gatewood, co-administrator of KanCare Advocates Network, and Sheldon Weisgrau, executive director of Health Reform Resource Project. SUSAN PFANNMULLER Special to the Star
By Bryan Lowry
blowry@kcstar.com
Rep. Kevin Yoder hosted a town hall Thursday evening, but it wasn’t at a church or community center. It was on the telephone.
From Florida to Utah, GOP lawmakers have faced angry crowds at town halls in the weeks following President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Videos of protesters chanting at members of Congress have gone viral, while other lawmakers have decided to skip the town halls during this week’s congressional break. That has drawn criticism from some constituents who say lawmakers dodging tough questions.
Yoder, who was back in Kansas this week, said he hosts these telephone town halls throughout the year and that the decision to host a telephone town hall rather than in-person event was not motivated by a fear of protesters.
“We reach a lot more people. I did a telephone town hall two weeks ago and had 7,000 people on the call. It’s much more convenient for people that don’t have the time, who are working or are raising their families, and don’t have the time to go stand in a line and go to a big room and have to give up their evening like that,” the Johnson County Republican said during an interview at an Overland Park diner. “We’ve found we can reach more people.”
But some complained on social media Thursday night about the quality of the audio and the inability to meet with Yoder in person.
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