Republicans Who Won After Rowdy Town Halls Now Avoiding Them

From Maine to Montana, Democrats and their allies are spending this short congressional recess protesting elected Republican politicians who for the most part are trying to avoid the events that often turn into shouting matches. In Denver this week, the activists targeted Republican Sen. Cory Gardner — denouncing him as inaccessible and beaming a picture of him fashioned into a "Wanted" poster to a wall of the Denver Art Museum while protesting Trump's plans to boost energy production on public lands. Gardner defeated a Democrat in 2010, and used impromptu town hall meetings heavily attended by tea party members in his campaign to rail against Obama's Affordable Health Care Act and incumbent congressional representatives he labeled as out of touch with voters. If you're there at a town hall meeting and there's hundreds of people there yelling at you, it's going to be a media event," said Seth Masket, a political scientist at the University of Denver "They're calculating that the bad press they're going to get from not having a town hall is not going to be as bad as that. [...] Texas Rep.

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