Too Hot To Handle!

I have seen on Facebook my federal Senators and Representative are holding town hall meetings around the state and the people are letting them have it! Both pro- and anti- Trump. But there is one party othe Senators and Representative that is running for cover!

Republicans advised to avoid in-person town halls after confrontations over layoffs go viral

The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee advised Republicans in a closed-door meeting that there were other ways to reach constituents.

NBC News

By Melanie Zanona and Megan Lebowitz

March 3, 2025

Congressional Republicans are again being advised against holding in-person town halls after several instances of lawmakers being berated by attendees went viral.

The chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is the Hill committee that works to get Republicans elected to the House, told lawmakers in a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning that there were more efficient ways to reach constituents than in-person town halls, according to two sources in the room.

The chairman, Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., compared the moment to 2017, when a series of GOP town halls made headlines after angry attendees confronted lawmakers.

I attended many town hall meetings and I was part of town hall meetings, back in the early 2000s I want around with Love Makes a Family to push the marriage equality bill and the gender inclusive non-discrimination bill. 

U.S. News and World Report writes that...

Johnson said Democrats and activist groups were responsible for the tumult.

"They're professional protesters. So why would we give them a forum to do that right now? They're doing this for the camera. We all know it, and I think it's wise not to play along," he said.

But they offer no back up data on their claims on outsider agitators! Congressman backs off on claims of  outsider agitators! The New Republic writes,

American lawmakers, particularly Republicans, still aren’t willing to face the fact that their constituents hate the reality of Donald Trump’s agenda.

After a fiery town hall in Belton, Missouri, Representative Mark Alford turned to CNN to blame the backlash on outside agitators—even while admitting that members of the angry crowd were actually his constituents. 

“This was brought about [by] outside agitators, and some people from outside our district, not our constituents, who came there to make their voices heard,” Alford told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Monday night. “And I respect that. They have every right to be there. We did not prohibit them, even though they did not live in our district.

But when pressured by the press he changed his tune,

“You say ‘outside agitators,’” Collins interjected. “Are you saying that none of them were your constituents that were there?” 

“No, no, no, no, I—some were,” Alford responded. “I went—and let me make that very clear. Some were our constituents. They clearly were not on—aligned with my way of thinking, and they did not vote for Trump.” 

No kidding Sherlock! The TNR goes on to write,

House Speaker Mike Johnson has also accused paid protesters of stirring up trouble for Republicans, and another House Republican, Mark Alford, used the age-old bogeyman of “outside agitators” to try to explain away the hecklers at a town hall he held last month.

In reality, discontent is growing across the country as Trump and Elon Musk lead a radical overhaul of the federal government and gut vital policies. Republicans are unwilling to recognize that the growing protests are actually legitimate, and in one case in Idaho, even used violence to squash one of them. The more they ignore the discontent, though, the more likely Hudson’s prediction will come true: The protests will only get worse.

But the Republicans cannot admit that they are riling the base, so they do what Republicans do... lie and blame others!

This is what they fear...

DOGE firings provoke heated confrontations, shouts of ‘Nazi,’ at Republican town halls

The LA Times

By Hailey Branson-Potts and Rebecca Plevin

March 4, 2025

By the time U.S. Rep. Jay Obernolte, a Big Bear Lake Republican, tried asking for unity at his “community coffee” event, his audience had screamed, cussed and called him a Nazi.

“We’re not on team liberal or conservative; we’re not on team Republican or Democrat. We all play for team United States of America,” Obernolte told the overflow crowd last month at the Yucca Valley Community Center.

Boos drowned him out.

Obernolte told constituents to call his office “when you have problems with your government.” A woman in the audience responded by singing, to the tune of the “Ghostbusters” theme song: “Who ya gonna call? The fasc-ists!”

The crowd was furious that Obernolte had defended the Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers. They yelled when he said he was glad billionaire Elon Musk, who heads the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was “looking at all of the waste” in the federal budget.

The voters see through the lies!

The Hill writes that,

House Democrats are poking at the Republicans for giving that advice.

“So House Republicans’ political strategy is ‘see no families nor workers,’ ‘hear no protesters’, ‘speak to no one’ and hope everyone gets less angry at them when they rip away Americans’ health care? Got it,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesperson Viet Shelton said.

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin accused Republican leaders of “telling their members to hide from their own constituents.”

“If Republicans had any courage – or if they truly believed in the havoc they’re complicit in – they would stand up in front of their voters to proudly defend what Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing,” he added.

But instead are running away with their tail between their legs! Instead of defending Trump... they hide.

Or lie...

Still, some lawmakers are already heeding GOP leadership’s advice. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) — who recounted instances of “crazy activists” showing up at her home — said she does not feel comfortable holding in-person town halls.

“When in-person town halls are being funded by Soros operatives and they’re there to only disrupt and not truly get answers, then it really defeats the purpose of a town hall,” Boebert said. “I’ve done many tele-town halls, and I think that those are very productive, and we can reach thousands more people than we ever could in person, and so I think that that is a great strategy.

The conservative Dispatch writes,

Over the weekend, Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas abruptly left a town hall after audience members expressed concerns to him about veterans losing their jobs due to cutbacks, leading to jeers from the crowd. Marshall later endorsed Trump’s claim about “paid ‘troublemakers’” and told reporters that the voices of voters in rural Logan County, which overwhelmingly voted for Trump, were “drowned out by people from urban America.”

There’s no evidence that people at Marshall’s town hall were paid activists, but liberal groups are supporting protests against DOGE. The Associated Press reported that left-wing groups such as MoveOn were encouraging attendance at GOP events.

So tell me. You mean conservatives never tell MAGA or other right-wing conservative to attend a Democrat town hall meeting? Or is it okay only for Republicans to do it?

The Republican are in a quandary, they fear Trump, they fear Musk, and the fear the voters... so they hide out from their constituents and only lecture them from afar.