Burgess talks to tamer but dissatisfied crowd
FORT WORTH -- Weeks after his last town hall erupted with shouting, booing and hissing, Rep. Michael Burgess on Saturday drew a somewhat smaller and quieter -- yet still plenty angry -- crowd.
Like the Flower Mound town hall in March, Saturday's gathering at Harvest Baptist Church in Watauga centered largely on angst over plans to replace and repeal the Affordable Care Act. But the crowd's questions and grievances for Burgess, a doctor, also wound through global warming, U.S relations with Russia and tax reform.
Many of Burgess' responses drew angry shouts from the crowd of about 200, but the event was rather mild.
One of the more heated moments came when an audience member took to the microphone and asked Burgess, a Republican, if he would fight for American citizens and "not for the administration who wants to get in bed with the neighbors across from Alaska," a reference to Russia.
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