In the last few weeks and months, Republicans who try to hold town halls or who just appear at events like ribbon-cuttings and openings have walked into buzzsaws of discontent. Their furious and frustrated constituents can't easily access them any other way, so they show up on all sorts of occasions and — well, scream. You can hardly blame them.
For example, earlier this week Congressman Mark Alford of Missouri was raked over the coals by town hall attendees, who told him, "Come down here and start trying to pay your medical insurance. Come down here and walk into Costco to try to feed your family. You need to take your head out of Trump's ass." Ouch!
GOP rep Barry Moore of Alabama was so freaked out at his town hall that he cut it short and ran out the back door.
So is it any wonder that Elise "Elsie" Stefanik hasn't held an unvetted town hall since 2019? She ran as a middle-of-the-road, aisle-crossing, problem-solving Republican in 2014, but as we all know, is now full MAGA. Couple that with the Republicans' complicity with Benedict Donald's big, ugly bill, and she's carrying a ton of political baggage. Which is why she got booed in Clinton County last weekend.
Now, since Benedict Donald scuttled her UN dreams, Elsie thinks she's going to run for Governor of New York. How is she going to do that without meeting the voters? Is she just going to do a kind of lame, Andrew-Cuomo-for-NYC-mayor campaign — friendly TV hits and name-calling on social media? New York is a big state, with 20 million people. We're not sure how she's going to pull it off. We cats PURR.
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